It seems that we have had so many things going on and I feel like we haven’t hardly even touched our curriculum!  I feel like we are not going to get through all of what I wanted to do this year.  I suppose it doesn’t help that this is our first full year of homeschooling, I am still learning the ropes.  Also, I suppose it doesn’t help that I changed curriculum in November and we have been trying to catch up ever since!  I have come to the conclusion that we are going to school through the summer and I am sure our kids will not like that.

On top of being our first year of homeschooling and changing curriculum, we have taken off school when my husband is off of work.  We have family days.  I really enjoy that!  I am seeing the benefit to homeschooling (besides having control over what they are learning) but being able to take off any time.  We have had friends come down from the north and escape the cold, we didn’t school on those days.  We have had 4 field trips already since January (I think we did about 5 field trips in the fall semester)!  Yes, those count as school days but those are days where we don’t touch our curriculum.

Then you have days like today where one kids is sick and all she wants to do is watch TV.  So, I decided that if the TV is going to be on, we are going to make it educational, so bring on Magic School Bus!  I decided to Google Magic School Bus and see if there were any study guides that went a long the show.  You know what I found?  There is a bunch both free and for sale!  I was excited!

Girls schooling in living room
Copyright by Holly Hedman

I found the website StarMaterials.com and printed of a study guide for the girls to fill out while watching the show.  It was perfect! Seemed like every show we watched Star Materials had a study guide to go with it!

Here are a couple more DVD’s I bought called The American Heritage 10 disk collection and The American Heritage 7 disk collection.  I am really excited about these DVDs!  Our oldest daughter and I recently went to a Constitution seminar and I was floored by what I don’t remember.  When I saw these videos, I figured they will be good for learning and for when we don’t want to do a full day of school!  Learning a different way! 🙂

My new theory about when kids get sick, we can watch educational TV!  I am not too sure how my kids like this new theory, but it is one I am going to stick with it!  Poor kids, even when they are sick I make them “do” school!  I love how they think!

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