Feels like fall.

It's cool and rainy and feels like fall.  This is one of the times I am glad to live so far inland.  When it is a time that I want to go to the beach, I feel terrible about the 9+ hours we have to drive to get there, but when the hurricane season hits like this, I am thankful.  We have a light rain from the leftovers of Hurricane Irma.  We had heavy rain from Hurricane Harvey, but nothing serious.  This time we thought we were also going to get wind and as this big storm keeps going through, we might.  Still.  It's been beautiful here and I am thankful.  It's also been busy.  It seems like I am always going someplace and doing something, despite currently being a homemaker.  The kids are all getting busier and busier and I help support their activities and occasionally take someone to one of their activities so that I can have a car.  There's nothing exciting going on, just a little bit more settling into our new routines.  It's a good thing.

I'm still advising on the homeschooling board on Facebook and I'd like to address one of the things that everyone asks on there every day.  The state says this many hours and this many days, so you need to keep attendance records but this can be as simple as a check mark in your calendar and the hours can be however you want to assign the hours.  In Kentucky the law says 1062 hours, 170 days and  that you have to cover reading, writing, spelling, grammar, history, mathematics and civics and keep scholarship records.   But if you want, you can only cover civics once a week or once a month, do math on every day or every Thursday, do all of these subjects in 1 1/2 hours in the morning and then do an hour lunch and a 2 hour recess, followed by reading all together, art and block time.  Especially when they are little, do not make them be in a chair doing seat work all day long!  Childhood is not supposed to be like that and since the one-on-one time that they get in a homeschool setting is so incredibly efficient, they don't need it!  They will thrive with this kind of a schedule, lots of physical movement is completely necessary for a child's brain development.  You've pulled them out of a system that is not working, do not recreate it in your home!  

Okay, off my soapbox now.   Temporarily.  

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