When we approach each new homeschool year, we all anticipate great things being accomplished with our intellectually willing children. There were many things I would have liked to hear, over the years, as we began each new adventure into homeschooling. Reality, however, usually takes first place. I've set out the wished for actions and the real reactions that often took place in one way or the other in my homeschooling classroom aka the kitchen table!
1. Time for school! I thought we would take it easy today but several of you little darlings sent me private notes, begging to begin with math instead of art!
This is the third time I have called you to the school table! And you used up your art time yesterday when you crayoned your new math books.
2. Are you sure you wouldn’t like some fresh cookies and milk? It has been two hours since breakfast and you must be hungry. I promise we will still work on Geography afterwards.
No, you can’t have something to eat. You should have thought about hunger when you refused to eat breakfast this morning. Yes, you have to finish Geography and no ad-libbing on the maps today. No undiscovered countries that only you know about!
3. I can’t believe how neatly you set up your insect collections for science. And to think I only assigned this term project yesterday and here you are done already!
Smashed bugs don’t count for your bug collection even if you remember what it was before you squashed it. I don’t care if you weren’t the one who mashed the bug. You shouldn’t have put it in your sister’s bed to begin with!
4. How wonderfully you combined your poster paints to make a copy of one of the great Masterpieces! And you didn’t get a drop of paint on the floor, table or mommy’s art book.
Look, it is a numbered dot-to-dot coloring page. What do you mean you don’t understand the instructions?
5. Sweet child of mine! No wonder you asked for an extra two hours of school yesterday. You were busy composing this wonderful story for English class. Double-spaced and typewritten, no less.
A three-page composition doesn’t count if written in crayon! It was supposed to be on what we did on our summer vacation. And I did not spend it torturing you! But don’t give up on the idea - there is always next year!
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