• We finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which everybody loved, and started The Little House in the Big Woods, which everybody also loves. We bought several books and watched a National Geographic documentary about Lewis and Clark. Sacagawea was an amazing woman. I like showing my children strong women, and she obliged.
We talked about making our own butter. Does that count for anything? No?
• Jim took the kids to a little children’s art studio kind of place and they made melty-crayon art pieces. In my heart this doesn’t count for anything at all, I mention it only to beef up my stats.
• We went to the St. Louis Zoo, which has FREE admission, but which makes up for it by charging $15 for parking and highway robbery prices for water. Who cares though, when they have elephants? Also, the tiger yowled at us, which was very exciting.
• On Monday, Big instructed Little on her first THREE chapters of Math-U-See Primer while I surfed the internet. Homeschool WIN!
• Speaking of Math, Little has completed over ONE HUNDRED pages this week, so enthusiastically that I have to MAKE her take a break. I vacillate between thinking, ”Wow! Unschooling ROCKS! My child totally figured out how to count stuff without the aid of worksheets! Maybe this is a sign that I really can surf Pinterest all day with no consequences…!” and “Jeez, Deb, you SUCK. Little has CLEARLY been ready for Kindergarten for a long time and you were too busy surfing Pinterest to notice. Quit sucking, you sucky suck-head.”
It’s like a carnival in my head. This is why I forget my own phone number.
Big did around 10 pages, under such severe protest that I fully expect the United Nations to show up and facilitate negotiations.
• I remembered to get First Day of School pictures, but I am not sure how they turned out. My award-winning camera directions consist of saying things like “stop looking like weirdos.”
September 14th, 2012 at 8:07 am
You’re doing the unschool thing right, my friend. I’m a little jealous. What my kids are doing while I’m sipping coffee and blog reading at 10 am: Running around the house turning light switches on and off. Apparently this is immensely amusing.
April´s last [type] ..Being Still.
September 14th, 2012 at 10:05 am
sucky suck-head! ha ha! You are not a sucky suck-head. But it does sound like you have a little math head on your hands.
Have you and the kiddos read “The Twenty-One Balloons”? It’s FUN. And WACKY! Wacky fun! (The beginning is a little dry, and I do remember committing some paraphrasing sin, but once it gets rolling, it’s really wonderful.)
hi kooky´s last [type] ..15
September 14th, 2012 at 11:54 am
Look at you all organized! So nice! Get used to your table being a giant mess. Ours is usually covered in books and papers and mugs and whatever else. Homeschoolers are weird. The sooner you accept that the easier it will be. LOL
Tressa´s last [type] ..Chemistry (Part 1)
September 15th, 2012 at 7:00 am
Don’t you just love that Math U See. It is so darn logical and hands-on that the kiddos pick up on all the concepts very easily. However, that double digit multiplication does get a little tricky!
September 16th, 2012 at 6:22 am
Oh, Jeannine, you are right—I had to check my middle daughter’s MUS multiplication work to see where she went wrong and I needed a ruler and an aspirin to figure it out. Oy.
Sounds like you guys are doing great! We decided to schedule a big vacation (I mean FIELD TRIP) at the end of September, so you can just imagine how much school work is getting done right now.
The Fairly Odd Mother´s last [type] ..Eight
September 16th, 2012 at 8:56 pm
I think it sounds great! And I’m assuming you do you know you’re fantastic?
We did potato-painting birds, and a super, spontaneous craft last week: cut out shapes in construction paper to look like the painted birds, hole-punch them, and tie them to a hanger.
Plus some math, reading, and writing
Lily´s last [type] ..Organic Peppermint Plants