Homeschooling is fun because your kids can be so creative.

But there are a few things that other mothers don't have to deal with mainly:

1. A sudden burst of song right in the middle of reading followed with ,"opps sorry, just thinking of a song"  I'm quite sure children do not burst into song at classes in school.

2. Having your kids come down for lunch and you discover they never got dressed!

3. They could justs care less what their hair looks like that day.

4. Pets in the middle of class

5. No sense of hurry.  So... it only took 3 hours to do my math!!!  grrrrrr

6. the giggles, then wresting, and pictures in the middle of class.

7. eating nonstop, what is with teenagers and food?

8. the loss of my own personal pens, and computer, "but it's for school mom, I need it"

9. When people ask my kids, "What did you do in school today." and they give them a blank stare, cuz everything we do is school and they don't know how to divide what is school and what's not.

10. When we start a subject that is debatable and it ends up with what someone is eating for breakfast!  In other words getting distracted!

But the likes are far more wonderful and I wouldn't have it any other way.

1. Cuddling with the kids at reading time

2. Teaching every subject with a bible view

3. Praying during school

4. Learning how to manage a home with lifeskills.

5. No peer pressure to wear weird clothes, strange hair, or brand names.

6. Thepeople they look up to are real life people that are Godly

7. I get help at home and can in turn help other people

8. They learn how to work ( ranch work and house work beyond making a bed) and teach others.

9, They associate with all ages and are not afraid of the opposite sex

10. They are not afraid to be seen with their own mother.

I could go on but it would take all day.

sooo... take a look

Here's what my kids have been up to: a very sporatic version:

Along with book learning in math and science the kids have been using computer skills to create CD covers, blogging, write their research papers, and do their newsletter. They have done interviews for their yearbook class, they have played the piano and sang at the nuring home, they are reading, Josephus for a biography and The wildrose of Lancaster; their grandma's book, along with numerous others. Emily has created a scrapbook for her sister and Mandy has worked with her horses. They created a filter for the dryer, and they made pumkin pies and created invitations.  Isaac has studied chess, drawing, and outdoor life, bringing in numerous crazy ice cycles. He's collected rocks, and toilet paper rolls that become marble runs and towers. He's reading about camelot and rocks and minerals. He's learning long division, simple geometry, like pararalle lines verses perpendicular lines.  In History they learn about the Boston Tea party and the intolerable acts, about Paul Revere and Abigal and John Adams.

Isaac has studied about wildlife animals, drawing some as he goes. In Bible the girls learn about being a proverbs 31 lady using the Far Above Rubies curriculum. Isaac learned about limericks and wrote one. He's doing homonyms in spelling and they all keep several notebooks including prayer journals, regular journals and story journals.

Mandy is writing analogies, one in particular I liked was about being a prisoner of the Lord.

Isaac is painting a play prop, and he created a game called Guess 20 that is really quite fun. Emily is gathering work to make money in the form of house cleaning and Mandy is studing on how to teach piano.

They have studied martyrs and about Elizabeth Elliot, Jim Elliots wife. Mandy has read the Tidwad gazette and has started a family budget.

The girls have learned all about dating in the Bible times verses now, the laws of marriage, the impact of unwed mothers and courtship.

We read aloud about the Louisiana Purchase and I learned a lot I didn't know.

Mandy studied Leprosy and Emily about acne.

They acted as seconds in a movie and watched a play about Treasure Island.

There is so much more such as playing with legos but that is the jist of this months learning.

Isaac makes a maze out of leaves! Then he charged 50 cents to do it!