Having started homeschool lessons at nearly full tilt in mid-August, by the time Thanksgiving arrived, we are fried. We have also not spent any time doing art or poetry.

So the plan for the days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, which I hatched and ran past my kids to which they responded with glee about is this:

Math

Science

Art

Poetry

That is all we are studying. That’s it.

We will also be doing Christmas preparations including an early family photo Christmas card which doubles as a notification of our new snail mail address, putting up a Christmas tree, and doing Christmas baking.

We will exercise outdoors too. The mild Texas weather makes this a perfect time of year to be outside. Temperatures are ranging from the 40s-70s.

Another change for December is my son’s Boy Scout Troop does a camping trip December 26-30 in which they focus on banging out a bunch of merit badges. So instead of lazing around the house playing video games and relaxing they will be booted out and the house will be oddly quiet that week. Actually both kids will be learning things while working on their merit badges (i.e. US Government, local government and science topics) which I count as learning experiences for “what they studied this year”.  

The kids being away also means that I’ll have a week all alone, while my husband goes off to work each day. I wonder what I will choose to do with all that free time?

Knit?

Read?

Homeschool planning?

Nature walks?

Photography?

Relax?

The possibilities are endless.