Tales from the Backyard

Our backyard holds a sense of magic,

wildflowers bloom,

a dog runs, a boy plays.

A hammock hangs beckoning anyone to come and let the breeze blow you to slumber.

Spring and all the colors of the season are in attendance.

Adventures in Wakefield

I noticed recently that it has been a month since I blogged here. Well we've had a productive month, including doing complete weeks of school. :greenstars: We've had more than our fair share of distractions this year, with illness, grumpies, growing, and what-not.

We've added some new one liners to our repertoire. We went to see Alice in Wonderland and the antics of the March Hare and Mad Hatter have added endless quips to our day, including the famous "You're late for tea!" Although it comes out more as, "You're late for school!". I do not throw the fine china however. I've also decided that I could really do the Mad Hatter as a costume. I have the hair, just a tad (okay a lot) more red, and then I could get the hat, which some book stores and Amazon sell. So I'm ordering the hat, yes I am. I going to wear it while I write, I'll be the mad writer. Go ahead, laugh, it may not be far from the truth.

We're entering the home stretch of our school year. We've finished our study of informal logic for the year and now we have filled its slot with an informal study of philosophy. We are using Philosophy for kids. Granted we've only done two lessons but both led to very interesting conversations which, as is SOP for our classroom, wandered down a rabbit hole or two.

Come to think of it, this year has been a lot of rabbit holes. That can be one of the joys and one of the pitfalls of homeschooling an only. No one objects when we stray off course (we: plural: meaning I love tangents as well) and no one but me will draw us back to center when necessary.
We laid aside some subjects and Z has picked up a few projects of his own, with great gusto. One could argue that rabbit holes allow us to explore ourselves and find out what is truly important. Just like Alice some days we feel sized correctly and it fits, some days we feel tiny and know we've taken on too much. There is no homeschool potion that will grow us or shrink us, but day-by-day we continue to find out who we are and where we belong.