Thursday, September 8, 2011

School is in

I thought as a homeschooling mom my children would miss out on lots of (public) school stuff.
For example: As young children
Recess
playing w/ other kids
teachers
sports
As older children
Sports (still)
dances
graduation
etc

As sad as that would make me I know they are getting the best education I (literally) can give them & afford.
And I realized there was things I could still do, it would just be different then other kids:
I have been seeing all these pics of kids on their 1st day of __ grade. So I too thought hey I can still do that, along w/ school pics( & save money).
I heard of moms taking their kids to their school/class. Well I can do that. Our classroom is just really close ( the dining room table. lol)
This yr we did decide to join the Classical Conversation process. Which easily explained is the Classic Christian way of schooling. We are still home schooling but we join other CC students ( parent) every Tues & have class (grades are separated). It's like a co op but different. Anyway the point is. This past Tues we (Anthony & I) attended the getting started meeting. To see how things worked & how they ran things etc. But then it happened something I never thought about missing..........can you guess........

Yep I got to meet the teachers of Alexa's & Charlie's classes. Although they don't call themselves teachers, they're tutors, cause technically the parent is the teacher they just guide the children & parent for the wks study. And technically Charlie's in preschool so she's not really doing a classroom setting all day.
But I was actually excited to meet who was going to lead their class. The girls have never had a teacher or teacher/parent meeting before, so to me that was exciting. I wonder how I never thought about it, but am glad I got to experience it. And surprisingly Alexa is SUPER excited to go to an actual classroom. Charlie, well Charlie is excited about everything Alexa is, but I think the 1st day may be rough when realizes she won't be in a class w/ Alexa for 3 hrs.......just hoping & praying she does well.

(this post is late I know sorry I forgot to post it)