coasting into the holiday break
At the tiny private school, we harbored mixed feelings about the holidays. Not so much the big ones, but the little ones — Valentines Day, St. Patrick's Day, etc. Pulaski Day, anyone? Anyone? Those holidays have a tendency to derail what is going on in the classroom, and when you are doing project work, you hate to mess with the rhythm and flow.
At the TPS, we touched on the holidays lightly and tried to keep things on track. At home, forget about it. You'd think that here in my isolation I could keep things on the straight and narrow, but you would be wrong.
We are in full ramping-up-to-the-holiday mode here. There is no downplaying Christmas. The boys are ecstatic because after this week, they get to be "off" for their winter break. (Off? Off from what, exactly? Do they know how good they have it? Oh, I am officially old.)
Projects have been mostly tossed aside. Or thrown with great force. (Although Jack did create an action figure for his "Mom Lady and Son Boy" comic book. I want to show it to you soooo much, but I am not allowed to reveal "the prototype".) There is ornament making. There is reading in front of the fire. There is some card and letter writing. And there is begging to make cookies. Sigh. I am ready to call it quits early and just throw on a red apron and bake my way to Christmas Eve.
No! I shall persevere. Besides, I need to keep them busy with their math so I can get some presents wrapped. At least for a few more days!
Posted on Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 06:06PM
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Lori
in Homeschooling, deep thoughts
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Lori
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I'm afraid we're going to be out and about so much this week that it might as well be another week of vacation. I just hope when January rolls around they'll be tired of the endless free play and ready to get down to business. ;^)
then we built tents in the living room and played robin hood and tested the "on at dusk, off at dawn" candlesticks dh bought on a whim (science? and they passed with flying colors - wax on, wax off, wax on, wax off...)and ate brownies before lunch and built with legos and wooden blocks (geometry?)
and later i'm attempting panettone (it says i spelled that wrong - what is the MATTER WITH UNIVERSAL SPELL CHECK?)
so i guess we're already braking. mostly.
endless free play ROCKS.
"why, when i was a girl, we sat in our desk til 3 and had 1 bathroom break and cold gruel for lunch AND WE LIKED IT"
;)
happy happy
joy joy
e, that is a really good "day in the life of"!! :^D
let's do a t-shirt that says "endless free play ROCKS" and sell it on the internets.
Love all the legos and quotes :)
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