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November 21, 2005

Homeschool Dreamer

I have to admit I'm a little envious of moms that homeschool. I don't have the strength. Or patience. We do a lot of work at home. Or, maybe it isn't a lot, but with five kids it seems like we are always doing something. Most of it is with the twins and middle child (1st grade and 3rd grader), though. But if I had to do that knowing that what we did at home was it? I don't think I would feel comfortable with that. I don't feel... equipped to take on that responsibility. I think I'd break under pressure.

First graders - working on their 100's book. Counting to 100, then the next page is 200 and so on. They are doing well on that. At the end when they reach 1000, they get a Blockbuster rental. They do that and their reading and journaling and flash cards. We rotate each one or encourage them to work on this stuff when they are bored.

Third grader - working on journalling, multiplication flash cards, reading (comprehension, he can "decode" brilliantly but he just can't tell you what the heck he read).

I did make some printables but they are all in Word format. Maybe I'll upload them someday.