Remember when that little book took the best seller list by storm so many years ago? I'll be honest with you, I've not ever actually read it, but I've seen many little gems from it that make me smile...and they are poignately true.
Our second week of this new school year was a bit bumpy with tired girls and crabby attitudes. But, as with everything in life, we adjust and keep on keeping on ;) By Tuesday, I'm not gonna lie, it felt like (and I was wishing) it was Friday....seriously, it was only Tuesday!!! And, I could tell before the girls were really even moving around too much that our day was already heading off the rails. There wasn't enough caffeine on this planet to help this homeschool mom get things going in the right direction and I could see that right off. So, being an expert at rolling with the punches, I decided the best course of action was to flip-flop our schedule for the day. Craig was heading out of state and Sarah was working that morning anyway....so I told the girls to hurry up and get ready, we were going to go on a field trip. Yeah, this was more of the fun kind rather than the educational kind, but it still opened up lots of discussion on several topics which led to lots of research on a few things later on, so in this case we'll count it (plus, we did do our lessons that afternoon, so it's not like we skipped out of school). I took the girls to see Pete's Dragon...yup, highly educational;). And, since we went to an early morning showing during the week, we had the theater all to ourselves. Totally awesome!!! It was a great movie; much better than the version I saw at their age. And, we did take the opportunity to learn about the logging industry afterward, along with a short study of dragons...in the Bible (yes, you read that right:).
We made it thru Tuesday, and when we all dropped into bed, it still felt like it should've been Friday, so I was sorely disappointed to wake up the next morning and find that it was....wednesday🙃
This was just one of "those" weeks. The kind that you make it thru, then you look back and realize there were several smiles and giggles along the way. Lessons were a struggle this week because, frankly, this year is a bit more difficult as I'm making the girls stretch a bit more than they'd like. I'm not asking them to do the impossible, I'm just asking them to "grow" and sometimes that's just not much fun. Today, Hannah made a comment that I think pretty much sums it all up (at least their side of things;) "Why can't we just learn everything we need to learn in kindergarten when it's fun and easy?" Then of course she had to add her solution to these sticky days "I think we should just be able to watch videos of other people doing crafts and then make what they've made". Alrighty then, there ya'll have it...the ideal society from an 11 year old's perspective is an artisan society and there would be no need for spelling or math 😉
Gracie's infamous red pen I'm only "allowed" to use to write 100% on her assignments :)
To help Hannah with her spelling words, she made her own flash cards. It's an organizational trick that seems to work well with my two dyslexics.
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