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Oh NO!!!!! Summer is here and we have not finished our book lessons! What are we going to do? So What? SO WHAT?!!! What do you mean so what? We haven't learned everything we are suppose to! We did not finish all the lessons!!! Wasn't it your kids who freaked out their aunts and uncles at Thanksgiving dinner because your 7 & 5 year olds proceeded to explain the digestive system from mouth to anus, and how the kidneys produced pee? And didn't your kids make a model kid with bones using Q-tips to explain how bones work, not to mention describe in some detail the workings of the heart to the amazement of your doctor? Big Deal!!!! So what if their Aunt turned an interesting shade of green and there were a lot more leftovers than normal, we have not finished all of our worksheets. Oh the worksheets!!!! I have a few dozen left!!! They are not even filled out!!!!! So? SO!!???!!!!??! We paid money for them. They show how much my kids have learned! Did you get the idea for frog day from them? You remember. That was the day you found tadpoles in a pond. So you went out and researched how to care for them. You got an aquarium and spent a day studing how they would become frogs and didn't you come up with tadpole math? Isnt that how your youngest finally got the concept of subtraction? WEREN'T YOU LISTENING? We did not finish all the lessons in the book! Yes, but didnt you go to homeschool classes once a month at your local zoo? Wasn't it your kids who while watching Curious George with some other kids began to explain how George was drawn incorrectly because he doesn't have a tail and monkeys have tails where apes do not. And isn't your kids who can tell all about birds. And isn't your oldest who when they asked for a child to come up on stage at an outdoorman's show to hold a snake RAN up to the stage and told the "expert" all about snakes? What does that have to do with anything? What if someone demands to see my lesson book? I have only 150 out of 170 lessons done!!! What willl they think? We will not reach the legal requirement for 180 days of instructions! Now wait, did you count all the days at the zoo classes? and what about the days you devoted to unit studies? Remember, you devoted three whole days to doing nothing but studing about magnets. And what about the days you devoted to learning about a single animal that the kids showed interest in? And what about the days you spent cooking to teach the kids about fractions? And really, what other 1st grader knows all about the Bill of Rights because you spent a day or two on American history, which all brings up how many other kids looked at a picture of the pilgrims and proceeded to explain how almost everything in a traditional picture of the pilgrims from the clothing to the food served is incorrect? And what about those horrid ladybug and butterfly houses you ordered and has to cancel the exterminator because it would kill all the experiments. And what about all those plant experiments you did? The kids did not understand how a plant transports water and food up its stem from a book, they learned it by putting white carnations in colored water. And wasn't your sister, the public school fourth grade teacher, lamenting that her students couldn't write as well in cursive as your 1st grader, as a matter of fact her students could barely READ cursive writing? And what about the mornings before dental appointments that you read all about teeth, what they were made of and how they worked and downloaded that model of teeth that the kids made and took to the dentist so he could show them where they needed to brush better? BUT WE DIDNT FINISH THE BOOKS OR THE WORKSHEETS!!! OH WHAT ARE WE TO DO? But don't your kids have a great love of learning and didnt they learn a lot? and enjoy it? THAT IS NOT THE POINT. We ... didnt finish .......... err ............... hhmmmm...... wait................ that is the point ......mmmmmmmmmmmm. Yeah! Summer is here! We had a great year and learned alot. Next year, I need to remember to not get so caught up in making sure the lessons are done that it interferes with learning. Homeschoolers tend to do that every so often. We do not want to end up more concerned with lessons and worksheets or we will be just schooling at home. Let's not loose sight of what homeschooling is and why we are doing it... and enjoy our summer break. |
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