(picture used with permission from The Family Man.)
Well, this isn’t the end of me blogging about homeschooling, because I have some surprises in store for this summer. This does mark the end of our family’s official year of homeschooling. While I recognize now more than ever that learning is something that happens all day long at home, we are finished with the work and learning we set out to do last fall. It’s so important, I think, to stop and mark the accomplishments that Silje has made. It would be so easy for me to go on and on about how great of a success the year was, and credit myself for that. Silje is the one who did most of the work, and I will not rob her of that distinction. I’m so proud, and spoiled to have her for a student.
We took a field trip to a nursery to pick up the remaining plants for our garden. All the kids were a great help. Even Elias! Silje learned about annuals and perennials, and different varieties of each plant. (I picked up 2 raspberry plants completely on a whim. I now have to figure out where to put them.)
In searching for some good books for her at the end of this year, I took the recommendation of another homeschool mom at the library and got Silje the first Nancy Drew book. She loves mysteries, and she loves this book so far. I can easily see how this may turn into her summer reading.
Silje seems so excited to be done for the summer. She talks about it about as much as she begs me to let her read all of her 2nd grade books on the shelf. They’re just sitting there, taunting her.
We had a little bit of history time line to catch up. It didn’t take too long. The kids are planning a party for the end of the school year, and why not, I ask? They think that school will be replaced with play, and it will be for a some of the time. However, school in the morning is about to be replaced with gardening in the morning. There are more chores in the summer, and even more so now that we have chickens. Soon we’ll be picking and shelling peas every morning, picking and snapping beans for the freezer, weeding, weeding, and weeding. I don’t think I’ll break that to them just yet…I’ll wait until after the party.
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