Leaving public school to come home and learn is extreme.
It's like stepping off a crowded bus and climbing onto a bicycle.
There's no other passengers to hide among. It's you and your mom and she KNOWS what you don't know.
You can't sit and stare out the bus window while the driver brings you to your destination. Your mom shows you what you need to learn and you have to find your way to do it.
And just like anyone who has been on a very long boring bus ride, some new to home learners are just not very excited about learning. I've been trying to wake up my two boys this first year home and it's been tough. I pull out a book and they glaze over. I read to them and they can't hear. And math. Numbers make them angry.
This picture is of Elijah and it was taken at 8:30 tonight. He's doing research on education in China. And he's excited. EXCITED!
Our homeschool group is having a geography fair on Friday and I told the kids they had to each take a part in the presentation. All of them have been searching the internet and writing and asking questions. They are planning and typing, drawing and loving it.
My two boy are grabbing the handle bars and pedaling their way into leaning!
While your husband was watching the Super Bowl, mine was grinding wheat berries and baking his fabulous bread.
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After hours of cutting, frying, and laughing, these kids produced a fantastic 8 course Chinese meal for us. Neighbors and friends dropped by and everyone ate till they were ready to burst.
There was more than a little homesickness for these kids who have been out of their home country for almost six months now. It did them all good to bring a little China to America.
To celebrate the Chinese New Year, Corrine, our exchange student invited some of her friends over for the weekend. They were busy tonight chopping up vegetables for the Chinese feast they're preparing tomorrow. They are excited to show us what real Chinese food tastes like! (Chinese restaurants are apparently NOT real Chinese food)
It was all very loud and messy and I'm hungry for it already!
Happy New Year!!
Today my guest photographer is James because I am too sick to do most anything.
The kind of sick that requires blankets and dogs cuddling with you.
Be back tomorrow.
Elijah can get low. So low that he's skated away with the Limbo prize more than once.
Today he got low in his heart. It looked like "mean" to his brother, who happened to be in the way of his heart drop. And it was, but it was more. And I told him I would never give up and that God was in the business of loving him till he didn't hurt so much any more.
I took his tears as wanting that.
With a nod to the predicted winter storm in our area, public school was cancelled. Which makes those of us who homeschool just a little annoyed. It's hard to teach "changing improper fractions to whole and mixed numbers" while your child's best buddy is sledding down the hill right outside your window.
The snow never materialized but by the early afternoon I was able to release the kids into their boots and send them out to play.
The gang was back together and Isaiah now knows that you always divide the denominator into the numerator.
