For those who think that homeschoolers sit in their house in the middle of the woods and never meet another soul except those in their family, listen to this.
Homeschool Group from 9:30 to 12:30. Mi'ita played with at least 30 children today, infants to high schoolers, 5 of whom were girls her age. (Parents were planning unit studies and kids just played today. Usually they will be learning.)
School Recess 1:15-1:30. Tuesdays and Thursdays we will be joining her regular school for recess.
Class 1:30-3. After recess on Tuesdays and Thursdays, we join her regular class and do regular school work.
Play date 3-4:30. A school chum comes home with us and plays. She goes with us to ballet.
Ballet 4:30-5:30.
Dinner Party 6:00-? Husband's coworker is having a pizza party at their house.
Tomorrow she will spend all day studying marine biology at the local science center with other homeschoolers.
AND, she did indeed do her math before we went to homeschool group, did dinosaur research with her class, and we'll do Latin flashcards on the walk to ballet. On the walk to the homeschool group through our woods and along a creek we saw a garter snake and beetles. We also analyzed the erosion damage done by a pipe leak.
I'm beat. I don't think I like days this scheduled. It reminds me of school. I wish she didn't want to go to school, but she does.
Careful, you'll need to be somewhere at 2:48 again if you don't watch out ... :)
ReplyDeleteSeriously, it's great that she can strike that medium. I can't believe she'd really want to go back full time. Oh, sure, maybe for a day or two, but then she'd be screaming to leave. She's got it so much better with you.
I wish it was less school, but they are inching towards research, which is something I wouldn't be able to get her to do myself. She is required to do a project, too, open ended, about a dinosaur she chose. A friend in her class has chosen the natural prey of the dinosaur Mi'ita chose, so they are going to make puppets and do a play together. That's good, too.
ReplyDeleteBut, yes, two days a week we have to be at her school at 1:15. Sigh. I've chosen those two days to coincide the days that she has to be at ballet, too, so we have to be in town anyway. I want to go to Portland for a couple days and do some day trips to study volcanoes--Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Hood. We have to work around ballet, anyway, so we'll work around this, too.