While last week was full steam ahead, we took it a little slower this week. It was cold and rainy for most of the week so we enjoyed plenty of indoor reading time along with Legos.
K looks forward to his new I Brick build every week. This week was a sloth.
Some I Brick builds came available while K was away at Legoland. The first thing he did when he got home was do the lessons on those builds.
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| Drag racecar |
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| Rescue helicopter |
When our kids are between the ages of 8-10, we like to take them on a special trip to some place they choose. J chose to go to Mount Rushmore, A1 went to Seattle, and K chose to explore Legoland.
*To be consistent with the OpenEd weekly logs, this week is labeled 4/5.
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| And we found Ed (OpenEd's horse mascot) a friend, too |
Last year, the homeschool community in our rural part of the world, frankly, didn't exist. However, we've had new families move in and new families begin homeschooling. There are now many, many families around.
This year, most of my kid are in public school. I've decided I'm not a very good at being a traditional school parent. Not only do I cringe at all the over priced PTA activities, book fairs, and picture day packets, but none of my kids are getting the "traditional" education of going to school for 7 hours and then coming home, doing homework, maybe a sport, and then repeating every day.
“Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs so plainly as does a dog when, with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.” – Charles Darwin
School was briefly interrupted when the PE coach (AKA- the dog) got injured why chasing a tennis ball. We took her to the vet and learned she tore her CCL (Equivalent to the ACL in humans) . The only way to heal that was with a specialized surgery...
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Well, it's exciting times over here. Our philosophy is every kid, every year, we will decide what is best for them. And this year has been a massive comedy of errors (and chaos from the beginning).