Home*School*Home: Back to work etc.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Back to work etc.

I'm back to work today. I took off Saturday for the party so I've kind of had a little mini-vacation. It's been kind of nice. We did end up mostly taking the day off from school yesterday. We each did 3 of the things on our school/work lists and then we went on a little field trip with the local 4H club, the first time we've ever been on a 4H trip but it won't be the last. It was very nice and totally free. We got to tour a veterinarian's office. I got to talk to the vet about this pet food recall and she said that Max was probably okay since his initial blood work was okay. That made me feel a lot better. We also learned quite a bit about different kinds of pets. One little girl said she had a bunch of baby ducks and asked how she could tell if they were boys or girls. The vet said that she could bring them in for DNA testing or just wait to see which ones lay eggs, because even professionals can't tell the sex of a duck without DNA testing or doing an endoscopic surgery to look around in there. Weird, huh?

Today, though, we're back to work as usual and I'd better get going on it!

1 comment:

Henny Penny said...: Ducks... Who knew? I sure didn't! Thanks for sharing that lil tidbit! Glad you and the kids enjoyed the field trip.; 7:44 AM

Post a Comment

Homeschooling Advice.

1. Try it. You might enjoy it. It might change your life. It might not be your thing, but you won't know if you don't ever try.

2. Find out what your state (or country) requires, the bare minimum. Do this and then with the rest of it, have fun with it. It doesn't have to be all serious and it doesn't have to look like the inside of a classroom. You're at home. Relax. Play. Read. Learn together. Enjoy your kids. They grow up way too fast.

3. Don't let a written curriculum boss you around. If it works, great. If it's not working for you, throw it out. If only parts of it work, use those and throw the rest out. It's not the boss of you. When shopping for curriculum, read reviews. Try to go somewhere where you can actually hold the book in your hands and look through it. Print out a sample day or week and try and implement it or borrow it before buying. It's kind of hit and miss buying books without being able to see them.

4. Find a homeschool support group. Or two. If you can't find one in real life, find one online. Get support where ever you can.

5. Make a mess now and then. Go outside and put some mentos in coke. Make alka-seltzer rockets. Make some great art. Make a timeline and a map. Grow some borax crystals. Use levers to lift things. Make a trebuchet out of whatever you can find around the house.

6. Go on as many field trips as you can.

The point of this blog.

"there is a theme, if you read, you'll get a growing conviction that homeschooling is a lifestyle that is worthwhile, that it is extremely good for kids and families, that it promotes bonding, is a personalized education that is superior to what you can get anywhere else for your kids, is fun and can be done even if you have a 400 track mind, no math skills (thankfully my husband does though), through working, job changes, bad hair days, home remodeling, deaths, illness, surgery, broken bones and various other things and it actually makes dealing with these things easier, not harder, than it was when we were in the public schools, because homeschooling is so incredibly flexible. That's the point I've been trying to make for the last 5 years or so."

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Back to work etc.

1 comment:

LinkWithin

Followers

The point of this blog.

Blog Archive