yai, yai, yai!

I don’t know how I managed it, but I’m quite certain we’ve done a field trip, at the very least, once every other week, but it could have been once a week thus far.  I’m not certain, but I was downloading my camera last night, and it’s time I bust and move on getting those field trip pages out!

We had friends over yesterday, as their mom was having an operation.  Managed to not only go on a field trip, but do a small study on spiders.  Not bad considering.

Course, I’m feeling like I’m not really getting any school done with the little guys.  My friend keeps telling me they are young and I can just chill, but. . .

It seems like I live with a healthy dose of “failure” syndrome every day.

How often do other homeschool parents do this, I wonder?  By “this” I mean go over what you’ve managed to cover thus far.

A friend of mine is finishing their study on Egypt.  She’s finishing it by doing a lapbook creation on Egypt.  Of her own creation!  She’s talented that way.  I would be buying a lapbook pack, and she creates her own.  It’s absolutely beautiful thusfar.

It’s kind of cool when she does something like that, though.  Ends her study with a lapbook compilation.  She is forced to see what they have covered.  What’s terribly interesting is she will fuss about a number of good things that she had to leave out (because the lapbook is getting to fat) and at the same time woe about the number of things they did not cover.

But, in the end she has a completed something!  That’s truly impressive.  I feel like, given the way I do things, there is never an end to anything.  I never have things I can say “finished” to.

It’s more than a mite bit depressing.

So, I’m going to work on those field trip pages today.  Because, I’ll be able to mark each field trip off as “done”.  And, while the field trip book as a whole may not be complete each trip is a checkmark in a little box on a list. . .and I’ll feel like I’m accomplishing something!

Had a thought

Okay, so I mentioned in my post yesterday of our imaginary farm idea.

What I didn’t mention, is that the thought has been growing to monstrous proportions.

Which has resulted in this:

Well, actually, that’s just a “button”.  Push it, and it will take you to another world.

You can all think I’m seriously nuts now.  Or you can join in the fun!  (Oh, but if you decide to join in, would you please let me know, especially if you post any of this on your blog?)

This school year

This school year is not going so hot for me.  I don’t know what it is, but I can’t seem to find my rhythm.  My days seem sporadic, topics covered more hit-or-miss-ish, perfect examples of ADD. . .

We have managed a great many field trips, which last year we didn’t seem to get in but one or two.

It has caused me to do a great deal of re-thinking and re-organizing.  I just don’t know . . .

Geez, it’s almost November!

I did have an absolutely brilliant thought though.  (At least I thought so.)

I’ve been struggling coming up with something for science and health to do this year for Garrett and Mikhail.

Well, then it dawned on me.

We are going to do a study of a year on a farm.  In fact, we are creating an imaginary farm, and we are going to do this, to some extent, with friends.

We will cover science (plant growth, animal studies, insects, weather, etc.), and health will be covered with nutrition and whatever else we decide to throw in there.  (“Health” is such a vague topic.)

Oh, but the fun thing is that we are going to throw in a lot of extra activities, things like making butter or cheese, dipping candles, spinning wool, making bird-houses, and whatever else we can come up with.

Well, that’s the plan anyway.

OH! and the day is escaping me yet again!!!