A Slice of Sky

I am so excited! A few moms and I started a homeschool co-op some weeks ago. We’ve had three meetings so far and things look really grand!

There are about 10 kids in all, ranging from 3 to 13. We, mum, take turns to run each session, doing two- three subjects per session. We do a local foreign language each time we meet. The mom who is taking this session has been experimenting with various learning activities, from drills to songs. Another one does History and Science, another mom does Crafts and I do Geography and Books.

Geography and Books.. come to think of it, I don’t know why I came up with that.Hmm…

Well, it’s my turn next week and I’ve assigned everyone to draw maps of imaginary lands. Each map should include a cartouche ( something akin to a decorated panel containing the title of the map), a key, details concerning terrain and ta daaah…invented languages ( runes. cuneiform.etc). The kids have to present their maps , dressed up in the native clothes of these lands and cook up some adventure. I’m thinking of gallant rescues ( by princesses of course!), bungling crooks and adventure. My kids are thinking of princesses and clothes and swordfights and puppies…Nevermind, we’ll manage somehow…

Oh dear me, Joy has discovered something gooey on the dinner table and it has a greenish-grey hue and it’s the consistency of ( what kids?!)oh, glue. Yikes.

Filed under: Homeschool Journal on May 27th, 2008