Great day to kick off homeschool! Super-duper snow day, so power is off at DH's office, and we are all enjoying being cozy and warm inside.

Violet and DH are doing Blokus and Uno -- stealth math -- and I am getting ready to do some writing while they play and Victoria sleeps. Technically we are on a 3-week spring break.

Violet is ready to go, however. She's made me a homeschool schedule (gym every morning for a few hours!) and she's made our school flag. I need to buy some toner for the printer. If she's so excited I'll have her take some placement tests for all the various math curricula out there.

How on earth do you choose? I'm a writer who writes about literature, so I figure, books is books. But math -- you don't want that "math fear" to start, especially with girls. Her brain works in strange ways: I think she's more a global thinker than a detail person, maybe a visual-spatial learner. (On the other hand, I may be way off.) In other words, she'll be brilliant at advanced math, if we can just keep her awake while we learn the basic facts!

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