Waiting now for my Sister in law and her children and our cousin to arrive!!!
They get here tomorrow and we have all kinds of do nothing plans together! Watch the children play, listen to the children play, watch the children perform a play...
Cindy and Laurel are both whizzes on the photography front so I am hopeful that they will be able to give me a crash course on my camera before next week!
Also Miss H has to put on a party for her school project. She has decided to give her friend Leia a surprise birthday party and we will be having the homeschool group over tomorrow to take part in that and play. Mom's will watch, listen and enjoy the children playing and will catch up on some adult conversation that does not involve diagramming sentences or speaking in phonically basic word groups! It's all about socialisation people!!! Those homeschool Mom's need to be socialized!! We practice once a week and are getting almost fluent!I give us an A for effort and output!
As if we didn't have enough to keep us busy and while away our time between now and the cousins arriving we will also be having our pre house inspection. A team will come and tell us all that we have to do to be ready to move out. I can hardly wait!.. oooppps sorry.. I know you can't read sarcasm in print, I CAN really wait..really :0)Never have been one for the "Oh please give me a list to clean by!"
One thing that can't wait though is bed time.. I must away and get a few zzz's so I can be up and at it int eh morning. As funny as it would be for the housing inspection team to be standing in my room writing out a list while I snore the Z's I'm not sure even I could live that one down.
How long have you been home schooling? I was home schooled from 5th grade through high school, and now I am a teacher. My mom and her home school mom friends (I think four of them) set up a monthly rotation of taking all their kids to another's house and cleaning their house or doing whatever big project or chore that mom needed that month. That was cool.
ReplyDeleteI like to tell folks I have been homeschooling my children from birth> when peopel say they could never homeschool I ask them if they potty trained their children or taught them to tie their shoes laces.. because nothing gets harder than that :0)
ReplyDeleteIt's funny you should mention the project idea. One of our homeschooling Mom's was JUST talking about setting something similar up in the ladies group of her church. Opportunities for service in the community is one of the joys our family reaps from homeschooling.
It was a steep learning curve to start with, I was a high school teacher in England, so had to put a few of my pre-conceived ideas aside to allow me to effectively teach at home.
I'm looking forward to next year, I will have two in high school then and the opportunity for me to get another high school education appeals to me :0)