This seems to be true of our homeschooling venture too. Our kid-minders are all working out well, and various classes are underway. Dagfari goes to work with ProfDad on Tuesdays and Thursdays, even though his homeschool drama class in High Point was canceled due to lack of enrollment. He's going to a class on Saturday mornings now, which he likes for the most part, even though they're not doing Shakespeare. Art class starts this Thursday afternoon. And on Fridays D is with his Albanian "Nona", learning unusual language skills (I'm told he has an excellent Albanian accent!).
Dagfari is still loving the homeschool thing and doesn't miss school a bit. We've been very unstructured for the past few weeks (mostly out of necessity), which D has enjoyed. He has learned to ride the spiffy new bike that he got for his birthday in April. And he's gotten into Lego in a big way, which is a new thing for him. He's also made progress in his typing tutorial , taken lots of pictures of the guinea pigs, and finished the new Spiderwick book. D has actually requested that we get a bit more structured in our study of literature, mythology, and history, so we're working on that. Karen Armstrong's A Short History of Myth is proving to be right up his alley, so we're using that as a jumping-off point.
We've also had time for some not-so-educational activities, like the Dixie Classic Fair! The guys liked the funhouse, as you can see.We met up with the secular homeschoolers group again last Friday afternoon. There are a bunch of boys ages 8-11, and Dagfari had a good time. The only problem is that D appears to be the only 9-year-old boy in the universe who has no interest in video games. This was an issue at school too. Maybe somewhere out there is another boy who can't partake in a discussion of Halo 3?
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