How is everyone doing? Anyone "start" their year yet? We are suppose to start on Tuesday; we have been sidelined by a death in the family though and now dh and I are both trying to not succumb to the flu.
: Ds#1 (6) the other day was so cute ... we've been reading the prehistory portion of the Usbourne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History (highly recommend it!), and we finished last week I think and he wanted to move on to the Ancient History section. But me, wanting to wait until we "officially" begin just because I hope to keep everything we are doing as sane as possible, have been delaying as long as I can. (We still read tons of stuff and honestly even if we sat and ended up reading the entire section on Ancient History before next Tuesday even comes, he'd gladly listen to it a few times over.
) Anyways, the other day I told him that our homeschooling year starts next week and that we get to begin reading about Ancient History. His reply was, "Oh yay!!! Ancient History!!!
I can't wait!!!" He's so cool.
I'm also happy to have learned that ds#2's speech location is at an elementary pretty close to the house and also really, really close to both a park and a library. Since he'll be 4 in a couple months, I'm much more comfortable leaving him there for the 30 minute session and taking the other two to the park to run a bit before picking him back up. He was so little last year when we began that we just sat in the car the entire time, 3 days a week.
: This year should be only 2 days a week and much easier to deal with (except the jealously that is bound to arise because we get to do "fun things" while he is in speech (which to ds#1 is the fun stuff).
I'm also happy to have learned that ds#2's speech location is at an elementary pretty close to the house and also really, really close to both a park and a library. Since he'll be 4 in a couple months, I'm much more comfortable leaving him there for the 30 minute session and taking the other two to the park to run a bit before picking him back up. He was so little last year when we began that we just sat in the car the entire time, 3 days a week.