Chapter Four

Chapter Four: The first Day of School

It was September 1^st and Mama had just woke up, Nursing Charlotte. Evelyn was outside feeding the animals, and after she picked berries with Sarah and Rosie. Samuel, Jack and Papa were working in the barn.

After breakfast, Mama started school for the first time that year. Jack, Sarah, and Rosie started handwriting, but Samuel and Evelyn started grammar. They hated school, they wanted to play outside all day, but Mama did not let them until they finished their work, but only sometimes she let them have breaks. It did not take long for Rosie to finish her work, because it was her very first time and her work was very easy for her. Sarah stared down at the problem that was there work, it was so hard complicated she did not want to do it at all on the papers But it took all morning for Jack and Sarah to finish their work, and Evelyn and Samuel until in the afternoon. The subjects for Jack and Sarah were: handwriting, grammar, and math. And Rosie learned her numbers and letters. Evelyn was going into ninth grade, Samuel was going into seventh, Isaac sixth Jack third, Sarah fourth grade, and Rosie preschool. And with Evelyn’s break, she rode on her horse, and played with the chickens, so did Sarah and Rosie. Jack had his first spelling test with Mama. They usually had their first spelling tests when they were eight, and Isaac had his first time that year. Rosie only had two sheets of work every day which were letters and numbers. “I love school!” decided Rosie, excitedly. Mama laughed and gave her daughter a hug. “I’m glad honey” Mama said. At 11:00 Sarah and Jack were finished with their work, and Mama corrected it. Then she did multiplication facts cards with jack and Isaac. And they practiced their story writing in their five star notebooks that Mama have them, after they did their main school.

Evelyn and Samuel studied hard on their work even though they did not want to. They took a break for lunch then they finished at 1:00. Mama read out loud history science and religion books to Sarah, Jack and Isaac. And they were finally totally done with school. Jack, Sarah and Isaac all did map skills too. And Jack did his first spelling test ever. Samuel was finally done with his math, and helped Papa in the barn with the animals. They milked the cows in the dairy with Uncle Fred. Evelyn finished too, and played with her younger siblings in the huge field. Soon, Mama started cooking dinner at 3:30 she did it early because it would take a while until it would be done. The children played together in the backyard until sunset, and came inside for a dinner of hamburgers. When they were done, the five oldest all helped Mama and Papa clean the kitchen. Then the whole family sat in the living room and said a rosary.

Then the older ones went outside to play ghost and the grave yard, Evelyn, Sarah, Isaac, and Jack counted to twelve and called out, “mid night!” and went looking for Samuel. And a little while later, he ran out from his hiding spot, and made ghost sounds, and scared Evelyn and Sarah, but the boys of course did not. After all of them had their turns being the ghost, they went inside. They chatted drew and read, until 9:00 and they all went to bed. And they were all were happy that the school day was finally over.