... you go for lunch at the Japanese Steakhouse and end up teaching your 6 yr old niece a Chemistry Lesson by putting ice on the grill, and explaining...solid to liquid to gas! Her mom, my sis-in-law scolded her when she saw her putting her piece of ice on the grill and she said, "But Mom, we're doing chemistry, see ?!"
... you are in a grocery store with your six year old who is reading signs and a lady comes up, asks how your daughter knew what the sign read and the daughter answers, "Well, with some of the words I used whole language and with some I used phonics, but the little ones were all sight words I learned a long time ago."
... setting the table for dinner involves finding another place for the cardboard box of baby chicks that were rescued from a nature walk, then getting up frequently during the meal to monitor the temperature in the box, interrupting the meal to look for an alternative heat source because the temperature in the box had dropped below 85 degrees. (The hanging lamp over the dining room table had been lowered to the box on the table to keep the chicks warm. Moving the box, meant leaving their source of heat.)
... you pack up a van with 3 other friends and drive through three states to a place that offers used computers, craft and paper supplies, and used office furniture because it is all FREE! :-)
... visiting grandparents far away and school just continues.
... Your son skins his knee, and after making sure that he is okay, you encourage him to notice the different epidermal layers!!!
... Instead of the song "Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes", you modify it to "Cranium, Mandible, Clavicle, Scapula; Clavicle, Scapula"!!!(or in our house we do different languages)
... you are always asked "Why aren't your children in school?" to which you reply "They are." when you are out and about.
.. Your 4 year old tells your mother that butterfly caterpillars make a chrysalis, not a cocoon. He knows this because he watched it happen. Your 12 year old can name 20 species of butterflies and has seen, and or "raised" most of them.
... your kids are outside on a sunny spring weekday making plaster Paris animal tracks while all the other kids in the neighborhood are in school.
... your bookcases look like the reference section of the library.
Just thought these were pretty funny and oh so true! I know that our formal dining room is no longer a dining room. It is "lovingly" called the classroom! :)
3 comments:
I am SO excited to get back to those homeschooling days! Yeah for Mommies who teach (and Daddies, too!) =)
Those are funny and oh, so true! I can't wait till that's our house too!
I'm with you on this! I was thinking all day Sunday about how happy I am to have my kids at home with me. I love it. I'm so glad you feel me on this, it's great to have you and Robb as fellow homeschoolers. I just think that if people would try it, they'd see how rewarding it is and how natural it is and how much easier the kids that are home are when the older ones are home too...
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