Homeschool Inservice

[Saille]

OK, so the kids and my dh are out of town until Fri/Sat, and I've got a million things to get done before they get back. BUT, I am taking a homeschool inservice. As in, get my ducks in a row, have some reflective time, and be in a good, centered place when the kids get back and we start rolling. Unfortunately, I'm fresh off of running a week-long, half-day program called Children's Peace Week, and holding a garage sale the day after. Sunday I worked. So, I haven't had a minute to myself to formulate a plan.

 

I've got three books I'm in the middle of reading: Liping Ma's Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics, MCT's The Conceptual Dialectic, and that Adlerian book, the Paideia Approach, that MCT recommends as a good book on Socratic dialogue. I've got copybooks and memory work to finish. This year's end-of-year reports. Reading lists to finalize. Some cutie things I'd like to make for the kids, like book slings for their rooms, and schultutes. But I guess I don't think of all of those as things I should do during an inservice. Some of them are just tasks.

 

Anyway, say you had either one or two days, 9-3, to do whatever enriched you and made you feel ready for another year of homeschooling. Got any ideas?

[specialmama]

I'd take every book off my shelves and re-organize. I'd take a bubble bath with soft music, work out, sit and do nothing, and wait for some motivation/inspiration to hit me as to what to do next. :001_smile: Have fun!

[Saille]

Ha HA! We are building floor to ceiling bookshelves as a result of the garage sale, so I will get to reorganize the shelves soon enough...and bring my poor lost boxed books down from the attic.

 

A bubble bath. What a good idea.