Today, I thought I would write a little about a phenomena that has raised its head about this time for the last three years. We have been working hard on our homeschool now for 26 weeks. We are still a couple of weeks from spring break, after which the kids will start on their very interesting research reports. Right now, though, we are all feeling a little burned out. There is a lot of cool stuff going on outside of school: tennis, music lessons, Kelly’s upcoming birthday party, boy scouts, and so on. On top of that, the weather is starting to get nice so it would really nice to be out playing in the sun with the other neighborhood kids. I was thinking something was wrong, but then I thought back on my on school experience, even up into college. This is just spring fever. After spring break, there will be new, fun things about which to think and the fire will get lit again, but right now, we just need to tough it out for a couple of weeks and do well on all those subjects that require serious thinking. That means math more than any other subject. It is hard to do math while one is day dreaming. Well, I talked to the kids and we agreed that each of them are going to try to get through unit 80 by the end of the year. It is an arbitrary goal, but a good one, most of all because it lets them know there is an end in sight and they now where it is.
Until Bryan checks in, I will use his numbers for last week:
