Dominic turned 8 years old yesterday. He, along with some friends, lined up at the table to build Lego Star Wars ships.
I looked at the group and realized the kids were 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 years old, and playing together beautifully I might add.
When we first started thinking about home schooling, I asked myself and others the dreaded "S" question, you know, "socialization"? Now I just laugh because we have to remember the other "s's", like "squeezing" in "school"!
That brings me to my second point for today. We are trying out the Oak Meadow curriculum. We haven't really used a curriculum before, I have just put things together, but I am feeling a greater need for a routine and an underlying structure. Today's science experiment had us moving a ball around a light bulb to simulate the rotation of the earth for days and years. My guys took that and ran. We looked up lunar and solar eclipses, phases of the moon, and when Sophia dropped "Earth", earthquakes. It amazes me how they so inately want to learn.
After Dominic's 8th rotation around the sun,
sometimes I feel I just need to set them up and get out of their way. :)
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