Snow Days

Snow ninjas

Monday dawned bright and sunny. We had Jeremiah's class and errands to run so I decided to make it an epic day out so that I wouldn't have to leave the house any more this week. I had no idea what the rest of the week would bring...

Tuesday we woke late for us and spent the morning puttering around. School work was started, bread put in the oven, laundry going. It was peaceful and cozy. Mid morning I looked out the window and noticed snowflakes coming down. I didn't think much of it. I don't watch TV and I rarely check the weather. I checked my Facebook feed and noticed that local schools were going to dismiss early. I texted Aaron and asked him if he would get to come home too. It was a pretty idyllic day. Falling snow, cozy house, appetizing smells, excited boys. Aaron slipped his way home. His usual 45 minute commute took him 2 1/2 hours, which felt like forever at the time but later turns out to be one of the shorter commute times of the afternoon. Friends were posting of 4 - 7 hour drives home!

School has ended up  being cancelled for the rest of the week. We have been hibernating here at home. Continuing with our school work. Drinking lots of hot chocolate. Scrounging up enough warm gear for the boys to play outside. Taking hot baths. Popping corn. Watching movies. Drinking lots of hot tea. Taking naps. Staying up late.

It has been a nice, unexpected break.

A Quick School Update

According to my handy-dandy Google Calendar that I used to plan out our school year back in the summer we are supposed to be on week 20 of our Core D from Sonlight. We are in fact on week 16. The fact that I am not stressing about this discrepancy proves that I am a "veteran" homeschooler by now. Ha Ha.

Maybe we spent too much time in front of screens over our 2 week Christmas break. But if I take a minute to step back I can see that we are doing and learning so much! Like our impromptu trip to the Aquarium with friends. Or the hours and hours that the boys spend playing outside with friends on the 9 wooded acres that surround our church, while I am working. The Jesse Tree readings we do during Advent, along with the extra Christmas books that we snuggle to read. Jeremiah avidly reading "spy" books and working for hours on his "Secret Agent File." Nathaniel drawing lots and lots of picture for friends. And sitting down every day to read a little bit to me - and getting good at it! We plug away at math and handwriting even on days that we don't always sit down and do our Core work.

In our Core work we are in the time of the colonists, right before the Revolutionary War. So much seems to be connecting in the boys heads. Things we saw in Philadelphia, books we are reading, a documentary we are watching - all of it is coming together and we are all learning so much.

In fact, when we sat down to watch a documentary about the colonists and the Revolutionary War the boys had to run and get the proper weaponry.