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November 9, 2005
Teetering On the Edge
This is the worst time of year for homeschooling.
Halloween gets us off-kilter, and sugared up. We struggle, we finally get back on track, only to be derailed by Thanksgiving. And, well, really, after Thanksgiving, what's the point?
We're finally back into our groove, so I'll run with it for one more week. That's it, then. After that it will be all Solstice decorations and holiday stuff.
But that's one of the (many) nice bits to homeschooling. We can do that. We've made good progress in Latin this year. We're on track in math. They're reading. Their writing is coming along. If we take a couple of months off, they'll still be fine. (Though to be honest, we rarely take that much time completely "off." If nothing else, we do math and read.)
I keep hoping we can squeeze out some time to trek down to San Antonio for a visit to the Alamo. You'd think it wouldn't be that hard, just five hours away ...
Posted by lynx at November 9, 2005 11:18 PM
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It's not like it's really any better in the schools - they have even more distractions going on, I think.
Posted by: Laura Gallagher at November 9, 2005 11:47 PM
Thanks, that was a fun post.
Posted by: Henry Cate at November 14, 2005 11:38 PM
phew! I'm so glad to read about others that homeschool in a similar way, with similar swells and lowes in actual *book* learning. We too seem to get derailed by the silliest ;0) things....Halloween, 2 Birthdays, Thanksgiving, LLL Area Conf (I'm the treasurer), holiday parties, Christmas and New Years...sigh...I just need people like you to keep reminding me that while the physical book learning seems to be non-existant, the learning really doesn't stop.
Posted by: Diane at November 15, 2005 11:28 PM