We are all back to the school year grind! My husband has been up at his school (he teaches in a local middle school) getting everything set for this coming week. This year he is the Math Subject Area Coordinator & it has taken a little extra on his part. Our son & I headed up to his school on Wednesday to help him get his room ready. I am not sure we were much help. He gave me the task of moving his student’s desks in place. I am no good at that. I spent quite a while working on it only to see more creative desk designs in some of the other teachers rooms! I noticed that the lady teachers really like to “nest” & make sure their rooms feel like home. The guys either don’t mess with it at all, slapping things up here & there, or their rooms tend to be very organized, almost military like.
The kids & I have also started back to our school, home school. This year I wasn’t on my game as usual where preparation is concerned. I think the fact that I didn’t go to any home school curriculum conferences played into that. I have quickly pulled our curriculum together so we can get going. That is fine, though, because it has saved me from second guessing myself on my purchases.
Of course our home school is awesome right now. It is new & fresh, since we are at the beginning of our year. The kids are anxious each day to get started, but especially my son. I can’t hardly finish up my morning routine (7:15am) before he is saying that it is time for us to do our subjects together: Math, History, & Language. By the way, how do you teach a boy how to write a thoughtful paragraph? Something other than…”It helps oxygen in the blood”. That was his answer to “How does the Mineral, Iron, help our bodies. Please write the answer as a paragraph. Remember, a paragraph has at least 3 sentences & a sentence has a subject & a predicate, begins with an upper case letter, & ends with a punctuation mark.” (I have to include all of this because every now & then these things are forgotten) If anyone has an answer to this issue with writing & boys, please let me know. That may be another blog for another day.
Anyhow, as of Monday, we are officially back to school. I am exited about this year & the fresh start. Don’t ask me in January how we are feeling. Well, maybe that will be another blog as well. “Fighting the Fog: Are We Done Yet?”
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