Tuesday, 1/20/09

Inauguration Day!

While we were cleaning up in anticipation of cousins coming over to watch the Inauguration with us, Jerry and I had a discussion with Amanda about career planning.  It seemed to be very productive and we worked through some of her options, including the option of transferring to an umbrella school for the rest of this year and taking another year of high school next year.

We watched the inauguration all the way through, commenting about Rick Warren's prayer, the oaf  (LOL) and  President Obama's speech.  It was interesting.

That was pretty much school for the day.

Oh, I saw Amanda working on photography.  I need to remind her to log her hours there.  And get her a Photoshop book so she can learn to use the full program, not just Elements.

Monday, 1/19/09

Yay for me, I remembered it was 2009!  Considering how foggy my brain has been lately, I think that's worth kudos today.  :-D

Monday, we did some regular school, Math, etc.  But here are some special things we did:

Amanda:  We mapped out what she needs to get done to qualify for the Bright Futures scholarship here in FL.  It's a lot.  In her words:  "I could have gotten it done sooner but didn't choose to."  Yeah.  sigh.  But, now we're here and we're working on trying to get her another year of high school since she's young for her grade.  It might cost me an arm and a leg, though!

The rest of us read aloud If You Lived in the Time of Martin Luther King, Jr.  Very interesting.  Amanda insisted on listening, too.  They commented that they didn't know that black people were so discriminated against or that segregation was so pervasive.  (Well, not in those words, LOL)  They had a little discussion about it.

Then Sydney and Shelby watched Johnny Tremain for their American history.  

Shelby went to ballet.

Remembering

I'm finding it increasingly hard to remember things.  It could be the lack of proper nutrients to my brain (if only I could remember to take my vitamins!) or the sheer volume of things I need to remember or the looming 4-0 number that does it.  Regardless, I don't remember everything I need to remember.

So, this blog is to remember these fleeting days of facilitating this beginning stage of my offspring's lifelong process of learning.  I'd forget, I'm sure.

Some of it will be boring (Morgan read 4 pages of I Can Read It, 2--Yawn!).  Some of it may be exciting--like all the dead things preserved in glycerin we've all been eager for Amanda to dissect!  Yeehaw!  Or mummifying a chicken--which I'm sure is the pinnacle of homeschooling!  Maybe we'll do it on our next sojourn through Egyptian history.

This is our 11th year homeschooling.  We use Sonlight  Curriculum, and have for 8 years now.   We absolutely love it and wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.  (And I've looked around.)   We've used Math-u-See math curriculum for about 5 years, I believe and it's been wonderful for us, too.

So, welcome to our homeschooling journey--we're glad to have you along!