Wednesday, June 30, 2010

like whoa.

beau's handwriting...leaves something to be desired.  most of his education so far has been through online games and reading and him asking questions with me answering, so i hadn't paid incredible attention to the handwriting thing yet, really.

but when he went to vacation bible school last week, he couldn't (or wouldn't, which is more likely the case) write his name.  so i thought, hey, let's work on this whole handwriting thing.

whew.  it isn't as bad as it could be, of course; i mean, he knows all his letters and he can *read*, for goodness' sakes, but his letters are incredibly shaky and they definitely need work.  so i'm off to download some letter worksheets!  fun fun.

i'm thinking twice a day working on worksheets, and he should be up to speed in no time.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

whoosh.

so this afternoon i'm sitting here, looking at lessonpathways.com, and suddenly...

i'm thinking of starting xander on the pre-k program.

nothing out of the ordinary, really; i should have probably done this last year, but he wasn't ready then.  he's ready now.

but i'm not.

i feel like the mom dropping her baby off on the first day, crying in the car all the way home: "my baby, my baby!"  except i won't have to leave him, obviously, but i'm about to help usher him into the wide-eyed world of letters and numbers and pencils and shaky renditions of his name written by his own chubby hands.

i'm crying.  this is all so exciting and yet it stinks big time all in the same moment.

but he's five.  it's time.  he's showing interest in things he never looked twice at before.  i've just got to suck it up.  i'm the mom. 

whoosh.

summer school

for some reason, i tend to get really excited about homeschooling in the middle of summer.  :)  it probably dates back to me hating the summer about three weeks in because i would be so BORED with nothing to do. 

we're jumping back in.  hubs wants to see something concrete that we're learning, and so do i.  unschooling is very freeing...but it's really difficult to explain to friends and family, and sometimes, to myself.  i know it's normal to feel a bit freaked and wondering if they're learning anything at all, but i'm thinking it's time for a change.  time for a shift in priorities.  time to jump in.