First "official" day of homeschooling

scatterbunny

New member
We are having GREAT spring weather this week, temperatures in the low 60's (farenheit), sunny skies, some wind but that's normal for the coast year-round.

Hayley has been asking to do homeschool (I haven't done anything really book or workbook oriented since I pulled her out of school, thinking a "deschooling" period would be good), so we decided to do it outside in the great weather.

We took a tablecloth, my laptop, her workbooks, coloring book and crayons outside to the patio table and set up. It was really fun. :) We covered patterns, addition, reading, writing and art. We talked a little bit about mammals and some common ones we see in our area. We did all of this in the beautiful sunshine and fresh air, in about an hour!

Later we're taking a walk to the local park/boat dock and I think I'll try to incorporate some science-y stuff into that.

I took a few pictures of Hayley sitting at the patio table, hard at work, I'll post those when I get them uploaded.
 
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AdventureMom

Senior Community Member
I was also thinking about you a day or two ago and wondering how it was going :). Glad you're enjoying it. It's amazing what you can cover in a short amount of time, isn't it?!? And then you have the rest of the day to enjoy. :D Sounds like a really nice day for you guys....
 

scatterbunny

New member
It was amazing what we accomplished. She would never do so much in a day at school, and she's in kindy for almost 3 hours! We worked for about an hour and had lots of fun at the same time. :)
 

mommy2jana

New member
That is so great, Jenny!

Oh how I wish and hope that when Jana starts school (2008) that we will be in a position so that I can stay home and homeschool her. That would be totally awesome!!! :cool:

I'm glad its going so well!!!
 

Suzibeck

Active member
Yeah! Glad you are having fun. We are having a not so good homeschooling week here, but those do come and go. The good far outweigh the bad.

One of my favorites is that we can school on the days when everyone else has snow days, especially those bitter, cold, blizzard days when no one could go outside anyway, and then when the first, nice, warm, days of spring come, we take a SUN DAY! I feel so bad for all the poor kids sitting inside doing workbooks on those days! We do a lot of schooling in our backyard on nice weather days too. Right now, we have a major case of spring fever and it is very cold and snowy out. I'm going to have to get creative today to get us out of this funk.
 

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