Congratulations!

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She is bored? I don't think it's a discipline problem if that's the case.

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At least our kids are pondering these things. I never knew my lack of divinity disqualified me and everyone else from being authority figures.

DD believes only God and Jesus can tell her what to do. Here I've been racking my brain trying to figure out what in the world is going on and it never occurred to me that her view of God had anything to do with it.

:hurray: Good for her!

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It can be overwhelming at times. I can imagine it being more difficult with an older child than these young ones. We have hit the February Funk here. I was getting burnt out so, with the exception of things outside teachers have assigned, we are doing our dinner studies (kids eat and I teach) and our hands on geography crafts that were prepped in the fall. I literally do not have to think for the crafts. I simply let the kids go at it and take a bunch of pictures for scrapbooking. It's a break I tried to avoid - even though I planned for it knowing that every year we start to croak about now and come back to life with the warm weather. I love afterschooling and most of the time the kids and I are enthusiastic about our plans. (My eldest will tell me if she thinks something is less than stellar) I don't think I could ever teach them everything I want to, even if we were homeschooling. We do our best and call it good enough. My enthusiasm is waning at the moment so we are kind of on a break. Kind of..... Editing to add: At one point last year, my husband who is a former PS teacher, told me that sometimes "You just need to move forward regardless of whether you covered everything or not." He said that there were times when he had great plans for his classes and what happened was more skeletal than what he envisioned. Sometimes the lessons here are lush and fleshed out- but if they are skeletal I try not to stress about it. The kids seem to learn regardless.

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I don't know! :blushing: It's great your kid has a lot of recess.

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I realized today that the school planned a good portion of their field trips for end of January through March for a reason. When I looked at the schedule before, I wondered why in the world they wouldn't spread the field trips out evenly through the year. I get it now!

Life experience says yes unfortunately.

What if you did something like the Story of the World hands on activities with library books to accompany the activities? Confession of a Homeschooler's "Expedition Earth" has a lot of hands on geography projects as well (easy program to adjust to meet your needs). She might like Life of Fred for math. As far as games go, "No Stress Chess" is a big hit here. You might want to venture over to the accelerated room and browse through the many math threads there. There are also a couple threads on dealing with perfectionism in the accelerated room. Welcome to Hive!

I feel kind of bad for my kid's teacher right now. DD is a really good, sweet kid and she would probably run for miles on the the trails outside right now if it wasn't so cold out. The poor kid can't sit still. We took her to the mall yesterday and she walked, skipped, galloped all over and still was bouncing off the walls late at night. She is so cute but to ask her to sit and do anything formal with all this energy is comical. And then I think about a whole classroom of kids with cabin fever. :willy_nilly: I really feel for all the teachers out there right now.

I love this post. It's fun when the kids are so enthusiastic that they run ahead on a project insisting mom or dad follow.

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I really wish I could share this one on facebook as it's so cute and funny. We read the chapter in Life of Fred a couple months ago about aleph null and it came up today when we were driving around town. DD from the backseat: "Elf-s are out during winter, Santa's elf-s." (I don't have the heart to correct her elf-s) Me: "Yes..." DD: "How old are elf-s? What comes after Al Elf Null?"

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FYI- As far as the c-rods go, I would be like this :confused1: :willy_nilly: :confused1: without Rosie's videos. Make sure you check those out while you are considering.

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