The beauty of homeschooling is being able to look at the first week of school in your area and decide to go to Hawaii instead. Despite the risk of two unusual hurricanes, the weather was amazing and DJ had an awesome time. This was our first vacation that DJ pulled his own weight. No strollers, no car seats, no parent’s carrying extra luggage. Yay!! DJ spend most of the week in the hotel pool where he made lots of friends….
I can’t believe I’m already writing my third annual school room tour! The room hasn’t changed much as it’s still our living room. We did get a new sofa for Christmas so we have a bit more floor space without the chaise sticking out. Although most of the items on the shelves haven’t changed. I’ll go around the room and point out what we have out and what is new. Standing in the middle of the room and looking to the…
Are any of you familiar with the book If you give a mouse a cookie? Well, you may wonder what might happen if you give a kid a video game – in this case Minecraft. DJ has been playing a lot of Minecraft since we’ve been on summer break. Today while he was playing, he happened to have some (virtual) feathers and he wanted to make some arrows. So I reminded him that he also needed sticks (which he had…
It is now officially summer! Except that it is still raining here in the Pacific Northwest. After my “year in review” post I had decided not to do any school with DJ until September. While he is enjoying the extra time to play Minecraft, he’s also surprisingly decided to do sound games with himself again. I am cautiously hopeful that he’ll develop a spark for language lessons. Today be sorted all of his letter magnets by color and then wrote…