Measuring, Math, & more

Today we did a lot of measuring. We're looking at houses, so I had the tape measure out to measure furniture here and rooms when we go looking. DS1 measured many things around the house and learned about inches, feet, and combining them. We also talked about ages of babies being in months or years or a combination.

In my last post, I commented about YEA changing structure. As it turns out, YEA is changing a little, but the format is still almost the same. Several of the founders and original "leaders" will be stepping out of leadership and into member status. They have gotten burnt out somewhat, and YEA doesn't match their dream any longer, but it does fulfill a purpose for those involved. Thus HANCK (Homeschool Activity Network - Central Kansas) was born. It's the umbrella/resource group now, and YEA is still for weekly classes, with occasional parties and park days.

Other than the measuring today, homeschool has been primarily "life skills" for us for the past month. We have visited relatives out of state, which included 4 airplane flights, going through security twice, visiting with seatmates, sharing video games (DS1 and an 18 yr old boy), and almost a week at Grandma's and Grandpa's. We have visited a relative in the hospital several times, which involves attempting proper hospital behavior and extra personal hygiene. And we have visited 9 houses in our house hunting adventure; some were empty, but some were still occupied, so we had look around while still respecting their things.

YEA is evolving again

Every semester that our co-op, Young Explorers' Academy, has been in existence, it has changed. I believe this is good, because it gets better each time. Some things need to stop and others need to start. For the past few days, we have had an online discussion about changing things again (even from what the new 2008 plans were). Today, someone posted a link to Our Non-directed Support Organization in Home Education Magazine's online edition. This appears to be very close to what we are working toward right now. It is less group structure and more "Hey, I'm going to do this, who wants to join me?"