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The kids do not want to do schoolwork
today. They tell me that public school is only in until 9:30 today. I
am thinking to myself "What's the point in going at all"? I want to
finish one more days work before we go on break. My kids act like it
will kill them. They are only doing Bible, History, Language Arts, and
Math at this time. It takes them about 2 hrs to get all of their work
finished. I don't feel like that is too much to ask. We started out using all BJU this year and it just wasn't working at all. It is a very good program, but I didn't feel like my children were learning very much. We were using HomeSat. When the kids would watch the history tapes, I would see their eyes glazing over and they would start getting distracted and not pay attention. It was the same way with science. I switched to Mystery of History for History, and Rainbow Science for science. My son decided to take a history course at coop and is studying 20th century history and my daughter and I do the MOH together. We are still waiting for Rainbow Science to come in the mail. I hope it will come before Monday, so we can start then. Math and Language arts are going well. The HomeSat teachers do a very good job at explaining the concepts and the lessons are easy to keep up with. Do you ever feel like your kids would not do anything unless they were told? My children are not very self-motivated and I know we need to work on it. It may be the age that they are at. We are in the Middle school years. This year has been a struggle for them and me. They want to be more independent, but yet they are not mature enough or self-motivated enough to do their work on their own. If I just gave them a schedule and told them I wanted to see the work at the end of the week, I am sure they would wait until the last day to do all of it. We have been used to having a lot of activities going on. The kids played soccer for 3 months and were on Drama team, pretty heavy. Now, everything has kind of slowed down..it was nice at first, but I feel like they are bored now. I want to get them back into some activities soon. We are in a very small rural town. There are no volunteer programs at all (that I know of). There is a larger town that we attend coop in that is about 40 miles from here. There are lots of things going on there. At this time, I cannot afford the gas money to attend anything other than coop. That is the ups and downs of living in a small town. We have a nice home on the lake and it is very peaceful out here, but I would like more community events, performing arts, volunteer programs, etc.. and that isn't available here. I have typed long enough this morning... Blessings, Beth |
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