Not traditional by any means

Many homeschool families have a schedule. I'm afraid that I'm not one them. My girls started off the day by sleeping in and not getting up when I asked them to. By the time they got up and could manage to find their way downstairs for breakfast, I had already washed 2 loads of laundry, loaded and ran the dishwasher, printed out their lessons and had them neatly waiting for their arrival in the learning center. Needless to say they were not impressed. Anyway, today we learned about fire prevention and they took a test about it. Tomorrow will be designing an escape plan and drill. That should be really interesting. I will also be covering Math (with the workbooks I found in the recycling center bin. No marks!. I have a book diving fetish). Let me explain, I take our recyclables to the center on purpose just so I can see what hardbacks and paperbacks people have gotten rid of. I live in a college town and this can be quite interesting to see what you can find. I was going to look in the magazine area, but someone had dumped porn magazines (alot) in there and felt that it might not be such a great idea to rifle through them with my bare hands. Anyway,
tomorrow I will be figuring out which little indian broke mommy's digital camera....

Homeschool Adventure

Teenagers are very difficult to raise. There are social issues, peer pressure, and just plain crankiness to deal with. I have two teens that were being teased at school to the point of tears and migraines. I have chosen to homeschool them both. As a result of this decision, I feel very uneasy about this new adventure. Not that I won't be able to handle the work involved, but that I won't be providing them with everything that they need. There are so many different views on homeschooling including deschooling, unschooling, eclectic homeschooling, classical homeschooling....whew! Who knew that there were so many (and many more) different styles of homeschooling? Everyday is going to be an adventure both for me and my girls. I think that this blog will document our triumphs and failures both of what worked and what didn't. Let the journey begin.