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"Greetings Star Shine, The Earth says, 'Hello'!"
Hello World. I must say that the current state of the household is not as good as it could be. I have literally been on bed rest for 2 weeks. I have been spasing out about the amount of time that I have not homeschooled. Now, I started this blog to be honest. I want to give a real picture of what it is like to "do" life and "school" at home. Remember, we moved and I had major surgery within 2 weeks. On top of this...Spring Break has been this week for all of her friends. We have sit down at the table and formally studied about 3 days out of the last 3 weeks. I know that I am going to get slammed for admiting this. Now, in that time we have accomplished a lot, we just haven't been able to do it. Remember, it's one on one...so we are getting a lot done. However, I can not teach her very well when I can not sit up or pre-plan. Greg has encouraged me to not freak out about this because we only have about 20 more lessons left to complete for the entire school year and of course, we can do them any time. He has offered to start teaching a couple of her subjects in the evening. However, I really enjoy the interaction with Abby and the discussions that flow from the subjects. I feel a little "protective" of our time together. That's a little selfish, I know.
We will be visiting Head Start this next week to look at some options for our 3rd born child. It feels very fluid to know that we would have 2 being homeschooled, one in public school and the other in diapers. However, there are some challenges at this point that I really feel like I need assistance with and I think that the educators at Head Start are more equipped to help at this point than I am. We'll see after the interview and observation.
I thought that I would, again, share with you the paragraph that Abby wrote. She went to Christi's house one day for "school" and I asked her to give Abby the first sentence and to have her do some "free" writing....Here's what we got-"One morning I took my favorite stuffed animals outside for tea. I said, 'Would you like some tea?' But no one answered. So I asked again. But everyone was quiet. Then I yelled at my stuffed animals and everyone said, 'Yes.' "
Rethink it.
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i yelled at judah, and disciplined her, in the grocery store today if if makes you feel better. we were in the liquor aisle (where you should all take your pre-schoolers, by the way), and I was trying to pick out a bottle of gin.
she was running up and down the aisle, lined completely with wine bottles, swinging a bag of limes back and forth. i had repeatedly told her to stop, to stay with me, to keep one hand on the stroller, and the next thing you know, she's down by the champagne, again, with her lime bag tossing about like a pendulum.
now you know why I buy gin.
Since I was present for one of the three home schooling days, I want to say you are doing great. It was so fun to hear y'alls interactions and to see the point where Abby would have gotten lost in the classroom. But not only did she "get" the lesson BUT her heart was nurtured. It was so cool to hear you shepherd her heart. And to see how she really soaked it up.
Don't forget that the TX board would think you're advanced for having gotten 3 days worth of work out of 3 weeks. Careful what you post or they're going to see you out to consult :)
Love ya!
This cracked me up!
I'm glad you're feeling better......and glad you're writing again.
Hey, that's life and it can be made up. Make up work even happens when you are public schoolers too! I'm amazed at how much kids can learn in short periods of time one on one with their teacher/parents. I feel like half of my childhood was WAISTED! LOL
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