First Week of Homeschooling
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Sage and I are really digging the whole homeschooling thing. Sage has his own blog, which I set up as a place for him to write stories and basically do whatever creative thing–it is called Sage’s Homeschooling Blog. That may change. His brother added to the story Sage has been writing. That made Sage ecstatic. It’s good to feel that connection from Portland.
We’ve been working on multiplication–doing different things to get the “hard ones” into memory.
We’ve also been going on long “field trips” which turn into two hour long walks in the beautiful weather we’ve been having here. It’s done wonders for my mental health. Today we went to an art gallery. This week, Sage mastered long division. It’s been a good, good week.
Wiley had a moment of passive resistance. He saw Greg and Sage leaving to go somewhere in the car, and jumped out of the window to join them. When Greg told him to go in the house, he ran into the park, where he sat down and refused to move. As you can see, Greg had to carry him all the way from the park to the house. It was ridiculous.
It feels good to be living more mindfully, and not rushing around all the time. I’ve realized that I’d rather learn to cook rice and beans 20 different ways than have my kid in the public schools.
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I’m glad it’s going so well and that you are both enjoying it. That’s fabulous! Your dog is hilarious, although Greg probably didn’t think so at the time.
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Sounds like you are off to a great start!
There should totally be more fun in learning.
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Great, happy, positive post!
I guess we’re really lucky here because the schools are so caring. I’m sure I would follow your example and homeschool if our local school was like the one Sage had to attend.
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That is so awesome Congratulations. Oh, and Wiley is super cute, he’s lucky you guys adopted him.
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7 x 6 still gives me pause for thought, and I work in financial software.
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