Easin' into a new schedule

has been going well today. We finished school within 20 minutes of our scheduled ending time--which was great, of course! We got to do some watercolor painting and science as well. Traditionally, I had not been very good at continuing to expose the children to both creative arts and science on a consistent basis for school, so I am making a concerted effort to do that this year. We are keeping to very short CM-type lessons and getting a whole lot covered in a very short time! We start at 8:40am and end around 1pm. That includes P.E.! Aren't you proud of me? ;p