Week Three: What is Normal Education?

 

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.  

Week Two: The Dog Needs Surgery!?

“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...

Week One: More Put Together Than the Public Schools

“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”

― Marjorie Pay Hinckley 

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).

When the World Wasn't on Fire

Preparing to evacuate from a wildfire was an unusual part our summer, however, we were fortunate enough to do other things that were not threatened by smoke or flames. 

Here's some of our summer in pictures:

The Year Summer Burned Up

Like so many communities across the country, our summer plans were interrupted by mother nature. We were halfway through a session of swim lessons when plans were altered by a raging, uncontrollable, wildfire. 

Last Week and Where We Go From Here

Unicorn cookies for A2

We finished all of our curriculum up last week. So this week it was cooking treats for math and science.

2nd to Last Week

A1 worked really hard and finished all of his math review this week. We had a donut party to celebrate.

LA: More typing and reading and writing. A1 also compared and contrasted different DND characters.  He then picked one to research further into what the character could do as it leveled up. He made a chart to explain it and wrote a paper on it.  I love that he can pick a topic he's interested in and use that to learn important language art skills.

Science: Here are more crazy facts A1's has learned: