Home*School*Home: Hopefully, this week will be better.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Hopefully, this week will be better.

If it's worse, I'm leaving town, going into hiding or something.

We've got another field trip today and then we will have some free days to rest and recover. I thought I'd share a couple of youngest son's recent comments this morning to start this week out on a better note.

Saturday we went to the mailbox which led to a climbing trees and skipping rocks in the creek playtime. As we walked back into the house, my youngest said "Next time I get the mail, I'm wearing boots." Apparently getting the mail at our house is a dirty job. ;-)

Youngest son has also invented what may be the newest breakfast sensation since Seinfeld's "muffin tops". His invention is called "Muffin Plottoms" and they have coffee, with sugar and creamer already in it, inside the muffin. He hasn't figured out all the details on how to do this yet, but if anybody can, it would be him.

2 comments:

Amy said...: Sure hope you DO have a better week this week, Dana....been thinking about you!

Wearing boots to get the mail....sounds like something you'd need to do at our house!

And I LOVE the muffin idea...as I sit here eating a chocolate chip muffin & sipping my coffee. Tell him to let me know when he gets all the details worked out. ;-); 7:44 AM
Junosmom said...: Sorry you've had a bad time lately. My blog is kind of a barometer also. If I'm not blogging, I'm about out of energy which could be a positive expediture - OR I am completely tapped out. If there is anthing I can do, email.; 7:45 AM

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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."

Monday, April 21, 2008

Hopefully, this week will be better.

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