Home School

We officially started home schooling today. Public school started last Wednesday, but we decided to start today and spend the weekend camping instead. It’s been hard to make this decision but we’ve been thinking about doing it for a while because Brad doesn’t work on Friday’s and we seem to check the kids out of school almost every Friday anyway, especially during ski season. So we’re excited for the freedom, excited to teach them what we choose, and excited to try and challenge these smart little kids of ours a little bit more. 

Day one went better than expected. A friend of mine gave me great advice which was to just know that from 9 until 1 your focus will be on your kids so don’t get stressed when other things aren’t getting done. So I tried to let other things go and just focus on helping them. Ryder’s math lessons were pretty easy for him so he did four in a row! Language arts and reading definitely takes the most time. But hopefully as we get more comfortable with everything it won’t take so long.