Working Weekend

Do you have any fabulous weekend plans?

I'm going to be having a working weekend.  

We started home school on the 6th and being the unorganized person that I am we have gotten a little behind with work. Maybe if we had a schedule, and some lists, ya lists.

Ha.

My brother gave me these fabulous little antique pharmaceutical bottles and I've been trying to decide what to do with them for months.  I finally have an idea.

I'll let you know how it turns out. 

Some music to listen to while working:

or maybe a video, right now I'm watching season 2 of Warehouse 13.

With only a little summer sun left at our disposal we will have to fit in some outdoor fun as well.

Have a really lovely weekend!

That time already?!?!

Summer started late this year with a really grey June, and already school is sneaking up on us.

I don't have an exact date yet but it's somewhere around 4 weeks from now.

This will be our second year using the K12 program (online home school), we used it for kindergarten and really enjoyed it.

It's a lot of fun to get the school supplies. We got 2 big boxes from UPS, inside those boxes were a bunch of smaller boxes.

The little one helped me open them so that we could discover all the goodies together, and it's a good size pile of goodies this year.

Now I just need to figure out where to put all this stuff.

Oh, and make the most of the last 4 weeks of summer vacation.

Break time!

We are all done with kindergarten. YAY! Actually we finished last Friday.

In January we decided to take our little one out of the public school and start homeschooling, I'm very glad we did and will be doing it again for first grade. We have since found a few home school groups in our area that have regular activities and play times, and our little one loves it.

It is not always easy or fun, there were even a couple days where I just couldn't do it so we decided to take the day off. Anyway, kindergarten is done and I am happy to have the summer off for a much needed break.

Hi again Bloo!

Ho Ho Home Schooling

Last Thursday was akin to Christmas (too cheesy? sorry). We got 2 large boxes delivered to our doorstep. In each of those boxes were smaller boxes, all filled with a bevy of school supplies. Text books, fiction, practice paper, shapes, white boards, a blow up globe etc etc. Everything you could need to teach a kindergarten student Math, Phonics, Language Arts and Science.
Yes, I do realize that it's January and the school season started several months ago. You see we sent our little one off to kindergarten with all the other kids at the start. He was very excited to go, and we were excited for him. At first he was very happy to be there but it didn't take very long for it to deteriorate. He's a bright, spirited little boy with lots of energy...not a teachers easiest kind of student. He wasn't good at sitting still, had trouble with disturbing the other students while they were doing their work, and would throw a fit at least once a week. In our local school system it's a 6 1/2 hour day for kindergarten. The teacher did the best she could with him (as far as I know anyway), but she and the principal both said he was immature and hinted that he should do kindergarten again. So, instead of waiting out the school year to see how things progress, watching the little light in my child grow dimmer day by day, we decided to take a different approach.

Technically what we are doing is not called home school. It is actually an online charter school through the state of Washington where kids can do everything at home, and meet periodically with one of their credited teachers to check progress and such. He can move at his own pace. The state of Washington requires a person to be certified to home school, which I am not (yet) and this offers me a way around that. Also the curriculum is all set up for you, the web site has each day's work laid out for you. You can do more if you want, move ahead, or take more time. They have a set amount of time that is required but it's flexible and you can schedule days off for vacation and such.

One common question we get when we tell people that we are teaching our child at home is "but what about his socialization?" As far as the social aspect of this goes there are at least 3 home school groups in our area, plus the charter school has a long list of people using the program that you can schedule field trips with, or co-op teaching, or whatever. Plus sports, art, music classes. There are plenty of ways to give a home school child socialization.

We haven't been at it long, but so far everyone is happy and we like the program. If any of you are interested in trying it for yourself, you can find information here ---> www.k12.com. It's available in states other than Washington.

Wow, I'm not usually so wordy.