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Posted by AcceptanceWithJoy

It is only 5:30 AM where I live, I am newly out of bed and have not quite finished my first cup of coffee. When I saw your post on the last 100 blog entries, I thought the title was "Freedom From Homeschooling." Oh, well... I am more awake now.

My daughter and I do a modified year round schedule too. I have to submit something to the school, so we do have an official schedule, but... on most days we don't look at it. And... we have only been homeschooling for 1 year so I am by no means an expert.

I wanted to share something I did last year. I was preparing an adoption dossier and didn't really have time to school. I didn't have time for my daughter to interupt me 1,000 times a day to bemoan her deep and utter boredom either. We got a book at the library. (We used Carry On, Mr. Bowditch) And read the book together in the morning. I gave Marissa an assignment from the book. Nathanial Bowdich learned foreign language's himself. He started with an Bible in his native tongue, a Bible in the language he was trying to learn and a dictionary. After we learned that, I sent my child to the computer (her favorite place) and had her translate John 1:1 into Spanish and French. I gave her a Haitian/English dictionary the next day and had her do that too. Mr. Bowditch sailed. We printed a map and she drew in his voyages on another day. Mr. Bowditch was interested in astronomy... another mini assignment. Another day, she had to draw a scene from the book. Marissa loved it. I thought, "If only I was more creative, we could do this all the time..."

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