Its been a good week. We didn't get to as much as I had hoped, but routines (apart form unexpected vet trips) are starting to form and we're starting to bring some of the fun back into our days.
During the course of the week I found this blog post by Cindy and it really spoke into the reality of what had been going wrong. I've been trying so hard for so long to prove that we could home school them, that they would do great and that it wasn't another hair-brained idea from two kids that had left reality some time back. The result and the isolation of not being able to talk to my family about what happened in our home-school wasn't pretty.
This week we've been finding the fun again - working together in writing - we used Rapunzel as our model, and managed to do the outline, dictionary skills, parsing, diagramming and sentence shuffle parts together kinda working at different levels. My Naturalist wasn't impressed at the size of the story though and is objecting.
We also fund ourselves working together at some of the Artist's Latin sentences - partly because she is just starting verbs so the sentences were writing everyone's range and partly with corrections because it takes a difficult thing and makes it fun.
In our notebook studies - bible, history, literature and science I've had to realize this isn't going to be a quick run through. There are too many options to follow rabbit trails. This week we looked at character studies of Andrew, Polly and Digory. We will follow them or at least the two kids through the story and see what thier journeys are. We sidetracked into a discussion of Who the Serpent in the Garden was? And we moved slowly forward in science. We also enjoyed reading How the Whale Got his Throat, and as our family read-aloud picked up the Hobbit.
So all in all its been a good week - and I'm looking forward to the next one.
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