Schoolin' On the Road

Oct. 22, 2005

Ok....I finally made it back

I will admit that I am very bad at this.  I was going to try to do this on a regular basis, and I will, but it seems like it has been a very long time since I have been here (and it has). I will try to bring you up to speed on where we are and what we are doing for school this year. We finally got to start the new school year about the first of October.  We hadn't been "home" to pick up our mail and that was where our curriculum was sitting.  We have decided to use Alpha Omega's Switched on Schoolhouse this year, and I can say that our DS dearly loves it.  It make teaching him a real joy this year.  He looks forward to doing school eagerly and instead of it taking hours and hours, he is doing his work in a timely manner and actually enjoying it.  We have been travelling, as always.  We spend most of our time in the western half of the United States, with occasional forays into the east.  This week we started out in Seattle, Washington and by Tuesday we will have gone clear across country and be near the east coast of North Carolina.  We spent Friday in Chicago, IL and are moving on from there. As far as the schooling is going, as I said above it is going very well.  This summer we did some practice, so DS didn't lose all of the skills that he learned last year, and I have found that some of what we are doing this early part of the school year is a little bit easy.  I know that it will get harder as he goes along, but I guess that is how it always is. We have added some extra to the curriculum in that he has some added history lessons and we are trying to keep up with handwriting or printing and that kind of thing.  I am somewhat disappointed in most elementary school history/geography.  It seems that they spend an awful lot of time introducing the children to the family unit ( aren't they in one every day?), their community, etc, etc.  Aren't children interested in more than that?  Don't they enjoy learning about the real history of an area or hearing the stories about the people that have come before?  I guess because my DH and I are very much "into" history, I find it a little repetitive to constantly be not teaching history. Ah well....now you know my pet peeve about the curriculum, and it doesn't seem to be just one, but all of them. As I am able I will come back and add to this.  Look for me again, and thanks for all the encouragement and the interest.

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