(This title is a joke, we had a horrible toy that chanted that phrase and it always cracked me up how it was clearly so much more to put parents at ease than teach children, and also my kids are 5 and 3, hopefully the learning started a long time ago.)
REGARDLESS! I bought our homeschool curriculum and can start this summer! After much research I settled on using "A Year of Playing Skillfully." I don't know what direction we'll take in the future but I feel good about our choice for this year.
Margot has been wanting to do a lemonade stand and our neighbor was having a yard sale (which meant finally some traffic on our quiet street) so she cleaned off her stand (still sticky from the last "sale" we had at her birthday party), grabbed her cash register and all the cold drinks from our fridge. It was a slow Saturday morning so I decided to help her with her project. We moved her stand up near the road, made a sign, and got additional drinks. Our first customer was a neighbor and Margot was pleased as punch. My parents stopped by and we had a few other people who were checking out the sale come as well. After a while we cleaned up the stand and headed inside. It was so much fun to teach Margot about counting money with money she had just earned! We talked about tithing and set aside some money to take to church on Sunday, and we talked about saving most of the money for her piggy bank. Then we took $1.06 straight the the Dollar Tree so she could pick something out. She chose a water squirter. As we were driving home together I said to Josh, "That totally counts as homeschool!" I don't normally run with one of Margot's ideas but once I saw the potential for learning, it was easy to spend time and energy helping her accomplish her plan. My hope for this blog is to keep a record of our homeschooling journey to share with family, friends and other homeschooling families. It's Learning Time!
REGARDLESS! I bought our homeschool curriculum and can start this summer! After much research I settled on using "A Year of Playing Skillfully." I don't know what direction we'll take in the future but I feel good about our choice for this year.
Margot has been wanting to do a lemonade stand and our neighbor was having a yard sale (which meant finally some traffic on our quiet street) so she cleaned off her stand (still sticky from the last "sale" we had at her birthday party), grabbed her cash register and all the cold drinks from our fridge. It was a slow Saturday morning so I decided to help her with her project. We moved her stand up near the road, made a sign, and got additional drinks. Our first customer was a neighbor and Margot was pleased as punch. My parents stopped by and we had a few other people who were checking out the sale come as well. After a while we cleaned up the stand and headed inside. It was so much fun to teach Margot about counting money with money she had just earned! We talked about tithing and set aside some money to take to church on Sunday, and we talked about saving most of the money for her piggy bank. Then we took $1.06 straight the the Dollar Tree so she could pick something out. She chose a water squirter. As we were driving home together I said to Josh, "That totally counts as homeschool!" I don't normally run with one of Margot's ideas but once I saw the potential for learning, it was easy to spend time and energy helping her accomplish her plan. My hope for this blog is to keep a record of our homeschooling journey to share with family, friends and other homeschooling families. It's Learning Time!
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