Blogs

I have to admit I love to read other people's blogs..especially home schooling blogs...I love to see how other people are home schooling their kids, and what seems to work and what doesn't. Every family is different and the family dynamics are unique so it's each their own way...
I see the struggles and the triumphs and the Aha! moments played out in each blog... I learn a little as well about what it means to be free, really free of conventional thinking and schooling.
From each one I get some life lessons and some ideas about teaching my kids, I have learned to be a more confident in my ideas about life and the way we raise our children. It's nice to see how peoples lives are so different from our own but yet so similar in what we hope to achieve with home schooling our children.

I know I have changed a lot since we started home schooling F last year, my ideas and my knowledge has grown, my love for my kids, something I thought could not get any bigger, has grown so much!

J is learning so much more than I think she would be in Pre-K because she gets to decide what she would like to know more about and when. Today she took a few seeds out of the apple on the kitchen table and wanted to plant it to make a tree....I explained that we couldn't grow a tree in the house but we could see what would happen to the seed if we put it in a jar surrounded with wet paper towels. She is very curious and very sweet and so loving and so open to anything. She loves to draw and draws everything she sees, she made a picture of herself helping me wash dishes, of her sneezing and blowing her nose with a tissue, of the healthy food she eats (vegetables and fruit) etc and she gets to do this as she pleases with no time limits and restrictions as to what she can experience, the same goes for A who is pretty much learning from her older sister and brother.
F spent the day watching the Thanksgiving specials on the History channel that he missed on Thursday and Friday because he was sick... and learning a little about Australian languages which is his topic for the next geography club meeting, and he and J, who loves to be with him when he is on the computer, looked at some cool videos on volcanoes in real time, she really likes volcanoes. F then spent time looking up all the volcanoes in the world and putting the ones located in the 50 states in their right place.
The kids played a lot today too, they play pretty well together I'm glad.