An Unconventional Schedule

Sometimes during the school year, you just have to start all over.  You have to throw what doesn't work out and even start from the beginning with a grade level of math...or language arts.

I'll be honest with you.  Even though I have been homeschooling our children for 19 years, I am not very good at it.  But our kids are smart!  And they can think outside the box...even when the directions say to color the deer and he decides to draw it with a gunshot wound.  (Yes, shocking, but seriously!  Deer can be food, right?) 

Sometimes that new curriculum is just the key to opening up that world of creativity just a little bit more than it was before, or making it a bit easier to write neatly. 

I can't help but take photos of the kids doing their work.  No, not every day is peaches and cream.  In fact most days have some sort of struggle.  

Today I had to tell myself that it is totally okay to say some of our children are in the grades they are in despite being a year or two behind in math or language.  Grade levels mean nothing!  What matters is that my children are learning and understanding what they learn.  Some progress faster than others and that is what makes them individuals not carbon copies of other children their ages. 

Wait!  I just dated myself with the carbon copies comment. How many kids today even know what that means!!??