Homeschool Mother's Journal

IN MY LIFE THIS WEEK:

Not to much happening this week, the school week went well.

IN OUR HOMESCHOOL THIS WEEK:

We have begun to read My Side of The Mountain by Jean Craighead George. It is a classic course and we are enjoying it. It is a simple story but so intriguing to young boys, running away, living in the wild, talking with animals, and so much more. Once again I just love reading with the boys. We started doing some research on the Catskills of New York. We looked up some videos of Falcons and listened to bird calls. We decided it was very beautiful over there and want to visit one day.

PLACES WE ARE GOING/ PEOPLE WE ARE SEEING:

Justin was invited to go to Disneyland by some classmates on Thursday. He had a great time it was nice to have him go with friends from school, guy friends, this doesn't happen a lot for Justin he has a lot of acquaintances, but not close friends so this was really exciting for him. Of course he had a blast.
Justin and Buck went on a Boy scout camp on Friday and Saturday night.

Cody had a buddy over for a sleep over.

MY FAVORITE THING THIS WEEK:

I guess my favorite thing this was getting some reading time in. I was able to have a nice time Friday night just sitting and reading while Buck and Justin were away and Cody played video games.

WHAT'S WORKING/NOT WORKING

Something really working is Justin being tutored by Mrs. Vickie in math he seems to really be grasping these new concepts.

HOMESCHOOL QUESTIONS AND THOUGHTS

With the thought of moving in the next couple months trying to consolidate the amount of days we would be coming across the bridge. I am thinking of changing schools. The boys could go 2 days but everything there is project based. but then I think Justin would only have one year there and then what for high school. For some reason society has told him that he must do high school just like everyone else. I have been exploring other options for him but have not come up with a plan exactly but these things will just run around in my head for awhile and I will make some kind of decision at some point.

A PHOTO OR QUOTE:

"Of course, a child may not know what he may need to know in ten years (who does?), but he knows, and much better than anyone else, what he wants and needs to know right now, what his mind is ready and hungry for. If we help him, or just allow him, to learn that, he will remember it, use it, build on it. If we try to make him learn something else, that we think is more important, the chances are that he won't learn it, or will learn very little of it, that he will soon forget most of what he learned, and what is worst of all, will before long lose most of his appetite for learning anything."

JOHN HOLT