Samut Saring Ceylon - A Week's Worth

Fri 19 Sep 2008 - A Week's Worth

Our third week wraps up today and looking back, I realized we have learned so much since we started this September. Well, we are still behind a bit if I am to be strict about the targets I have "imagined" before we started the month he he. For one, we are still crawling our way through Mystery of History 1. What more could I ask for? If I am to recall what I have learned when I was in school at their age, I think I have never even heard of Spartacus, the First Triumvirate or Asoka of India. Neither the word "Biblical Worldview" has been coined then and Evolution or Creation Science are as foreign as the hieroglyphics of ancient time. The debate just came up when I attended a Science High School back home. Well, you can rightly guess what they taught us.

This morning was far from what we have planned for this week. They prepared breakfast, Vibrant Bea cooked scrambled egg while Fuzzy toasted bread. I brewed coffee, of course. We love the Building on the Rock curriculum from Summit.org a lot that the kids requested to extend it, so we spent the whole morning studying Biblical Worldview. Later at noon, we checked Channel News Asia (Singapore) and the children were so happy to find that the featured program today is a docu-news entitled My Philippines. It covered stories on tourism, current events, culture, politics and economics. So that settles our Philippine History and Culture for the day. We also watched 2 DVDs from Answers in Genesis which is on 6-day Creation and Astronomy.

They did several pages of math problems while I stayed with Lil Ruffin during her naptime. Later in the afternoon, we finished all our memory cards, mapping and timeline. Then, they read about the Stuarts and Saxons of British History, watched Popular Mechanics DVD episode on film production and special effects, read about it and how prosthetics are made in a studio or production workshop.

Happy and satisfied, I allowed them to go out and play with friends at around 4pm.

Quite unconventional to be called a school. But this is just part of it. Oh! Have I mentioned about baby-sitting and bathing the youngest, mopping the floor, folding of laundry clothes, washing dishes just yet? ;-)

As for me, I am quite happy like my kids. A day is well a week's worth. _________________________________