Our official letter ratifying our homeschoolness arrived in the mail today, so we are well and truly in the system. I thought it fitting that it arrived on the last day of our first week of true homeschooling, which went pretty well. DD is reading more than ever: incidental phrases on cereal boxes, Dr. Seuss books, snippets of sentences out of my books. We're working on identifying coins and their worth, bills and their worth and basic addition, courtesy of her piggy bank and Monopoly, Jr. (which I highly recommend). We finished listening to Cheaper by the Dozen, and my new heroine is Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth--mother of 12 children who earned her Ph.D after she married and started her family. Her experiences put mine into perspective. We started listening to Matilda, which I am enjoying, but DD is not. She doesn't like the prevalent use of "Shut up" and thinks we should tell the librarians to throw it in the trash. However, she does want to listen all the way through.
All in all, our first week has been very productive and successful, and we've still managed to enjoy being with friends, having summer fun.
3 comments:
Oh good. I wasn't sure whether to expect an official letter or not. Of course my county may not send one, I suppose. There seems to not be much consistency in these things.
So funny she thinks the librarians should throw it away! :)
Congrats on being officially official. This is major milestone for you guys. Agree it is so funny she's already censoring her own reading materials. Great start to a wonderful education.
glad your week went so well.
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