Such a Bad Blogger!

I promise you, we are still homeschooling and have had some cool events take place. All in between a nasty bug that refuses to leave our systems!!

The kids are still shooting it out in Archery class, dad goes with them and I stay home catching up with school work or housework. Gymnastics is in full swing, a special homeschooling class was created for us in the mornings, so now they have more time with their homeschooled friends. The kids are also attending an awesome NYC Arts & Culture class here in Williamsburg. They studied Keith Haring last week, my kids love his art and we continued throughout the day checking out his artwork online.

We also joined in on a monthly homeschooling activity : Passport to the World. The children research a country/location and create a speech about anything they find interesting about the country. The point of the program is to provide the children with public speaking experience. I was extremely nervous for the Pop Tart, but of course, she stood up their without fear and read her speech on Surfing, this months destination was Hawaii. The Big Kahuna sat this one out, I just wanted him to see how comfortable other children were with their presentations. If I make a big deal about something for him, he tends to become very shy. It was amazing to see children between the ages of 3 – 13 have such confidence in themselves. I know that I tried to avoid any public speaking during my school years, and even now getting me to stand up and speak would be like pulling teeth!

More my pace, is the American Sign Language class they are taking. A great homeschooling parent has made these classes available to us in her home. The kids have all surprised me with how well they can pick up a new language. So we’ve been practicing asking eachother things in Sign, which is really cool.

The Pop Tart continues to also take her formal art lessons as well.

As far as “academics” I am focusing on Language Arts & Saxon Math for now. For Science we’re discussing weather & nature. As the weather becomes less comfortable I’ll add in some more subjects.

Well that’s all for now. Wish me luck that this bug disappears from our bodies!!!!

P.S. The date on my camera was incorrect.LOL.