Our first week of homeschooling.
We spent an afternoon preparing our notebooks -- naming, dividing, decorating. We spent another afternoon preparing our schoolroom: organizing our small library of nonfiction and classical literature;and hanging maps, multiplication tables, and alphabet charts. We spent a morning multiplying and dividing while making sandwiches for the children in the daycare. We spent an afternoon making spirographs after finding a vintage set on a shelf in the closet. We spent the weekend at the Mammoth Site exploring fossils and life-sized replicas of prehistoric creatures, and examining the geology of sinkholes and hot springs. During the drive there, we learned to identify deciduous and coniferous trees.
On the last day of our first week, my daughter turned to me and asked, "Mommy, is homeschooling just playing all day?" I smiled at her and replied, "Yes, honey, it is."
