after last week’s math meltdown in our home, we’ve had a week of nothing but pure joy, and absolute mayhem. and it INCLUDED more math. one evening last week, after sitting down to dinner at 7:30, i sighed heavily with a smile on my face and said, “i love our crazy, full life together!” and
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i wish i could bottle the excitement and enthusiasm of our first days back to school. we would all need a good dose of today’s optimism come february. and then again at the end of march. our first full days back to school are so exciting…a new schedule, new workbooks, new stories, new pencils. even
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I can’t remember Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. Monday is always Classical Conversations and piano lessons, so I know those were done. Tuesday and Wednesday were marked off in my planner as “done,” so I know those were done. But then Thursday happened. I woke at 6:00, as usual. The day was starting off to
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we took this past week off for “spring break.” we haven’t had a few days off of school since christmas and we were all feeling the need for a break. unfortunately, a relaxed week of formal lessons found me fretting over school this weekend. “i’m not doing enough! i need to add more literature! the
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“why do you always talk about what your kids are learning each week?” when you are 100% responsible for your child’s education, and when you are an overly organized, crazy about documenting ANYTHING mother like me in the first place, you tend to make note of what you’ve learned. homeschooling blogs are all over the
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monday…we celebrated martin luther king, jr and during the course of the week, i’ve heard adam yelling, “i have a dream!” and then he goes off in a poetic nature about mountains and stars. he remembers, as a four-and-a-half year old can. swimming at the Y after dinner. we all fell into bed tired and
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we kept class as normal today. we’re chugging along and will be done with school in late april at this clip! we did change up our history lesson (on Benjamin Franklin) today and jumped forward to the 1960′s to talk about Martin Luther King, Jr. it’s a touchy subject: slavery, and the civil rights movement.
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