2nd week of school

This happens every year but this time I am prepared for it.  This is also why I don't really like to take long breaks from school.

Everyone's attitude toward school is just negative and instead of saying they don't want to do school they misbehave (yes, even homeschooled children misbehave).

We have had lots of fighting, tattling, nitpicking and just general not so nice behavior.  I just keep telling myself that it is the 2nd week of school.  If I can get through this week then next week, my normal children will return.

Last week, they were very excited about all the new things they were going to learn, the new books and materials they had.  But this week, it is old hat and boring therefore I get the behaviors.  Next week, we return to "this is what we do, we homeschool, so let's do it."

Monday - we had our first troop meeting with our much smaller troop - last year was 21 and this year we are starting off with 7.  We had a lot of fun - played games, learned a little and figured out what we want to do for the year.  Cairn and I went to our first Mother/Daughter book club meeting.  It was fun.  We saw some old playdate friends from about 4 years ago (I was actually pregnant with Andrew when we left the group) and made a new friend who homeschools.

Tuesday - Andrew had speech and he is progressing very very well.  He works so hard to improve his speech plus he just loves Ms. Jill.  Then Cairn had a writing workshop and we ran into the new friend we had met Monday at book club plus one of our regular homeschool friends.  She LOVED the class and wants to take a 4 week class next month.

Cairn is such an incredible reader and so creative and elaborate in the stories she creates when she plays that I always thought she would be an awesome writer but she has always hating writing.  Not anymore.  Over the years, I have never pushed her to write, I figured it would come in time if she was really going to be a writer.  Plus, I knew that she would go to college able to write and communicate effectively so I wasn't worried.  It paid off - last night and today I found her hunched over her notebook writing.  No prompting from me!

Wednesday - We did our schoolwork and then went to a friends house to swim and just hang out while we still can be outside!!

I have been busy every night this week with either our book club or Girl Scout leader meetings.  I have 3 this week - Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  Friday night, Skylar has piano.