Honestly I think we are the last people in the country to start school. That is, it starts next week. So. Here are my school woes.

Poppy’s school is entirely online. Yay. However, they have been very stingy with information so we don’t actually know who her teacher is or what their daily schedule will look like. Do they have to be on the screen all day? Who knows? It’s honestly really frustrating at this point. We start school in 5 days and need to know these things. There’s a parent meeting Monday night but that’s also frustrating because at some point we’re going to have to drive down (still at the mountains) to pick up her textbooks and such and it’s kind of annoying to have to just drop everything the day before school starts. Not to mention what kind of school supplies we need. Ugh.

Thaddeus, on the other hand, is doing all kinds of stuff. We started homeschooling him last December and it went poorly. However, now I feel like I have a handle on what we’re doing with him. He’s actually doing some really cool things. Monday he’s taking two online hour-long classes: Intro to Entrepreneurship and Earth Science. Tuesday he’s on 8:00-noon with an enrichment program that follows kids’ interests and works them into math, language arts, science, and social studies lessons. Wednesday he’s back to the two online hour-long classes: Adventures in Creative Writing and Greek Mythology. Thursday he’s back to the 8:00-noon program. Then Fridays he’s doing the most awesome thing ever–there’s a Makerspace near our home-home (not the mountains) and he’s going to be building with real tools starting with woodworking and moving up to things like a 3D printer. The kind of bummer about that is that we will have to drive him down the hill to go to class every Friday. That said, it puts us there for the weekend for playdates.

I’ve also been reading a lot about Gameschooling, which is pretty much like it sounds–schooling through board games. So fun with board games will be mandatory. Mandatory fun. If you do not have fun, you get an F. An F for fun. Let’s not get an F.

So we’ll see how this goes.