School Break!!!

This week is a school break.  We have schooled 12 weeks so far!!! 1/3 the way through!

So this is the time I get to organize myself; re-examining how we are doing, dropping what doesn't work, trying new things.  I am going to make a schedule for myself, for the things that I am in charge of.  I need to have written goals.  For instance, I want to get through our history books before the end of the school year, so I need to put the chapters on a weekly schedule to see how many chapters I need to read each week.  I need to put Latin on a schedule as well.  Sometimes we repeat lessons for extra practice and sometimes we get lazy and don't do latin every day.  Maybe I could make a visual chart to check off for every time we do scripture reading, devotional, FHE and memory work so that the kids will motivate ME instead of the other way around all the time.  I could do that for poetry and science too.  They'll hold me to it because they love those subjects.  Hmm....

I learned something new this week in 3rd grade english; when to use "me and Isaac" and "Isaac and I".  I never learned this in school.  If you didn't either, here is the scoop on the poop:

The pronouns I, you, he, she, it, we, & they are used in the subject of a sentence.  The pronouns me, you, him, her, it, us, & them are used in the predicate of a sentence.

So it would be:

Isaac and I / went on a date. 
Marissa / babysat for me and Isaac.

How easy is that?  Why did I not learn this in school?  It is a little embarrassing, as a teacher, to be learning along with Savannah.  I just explain to her that I never learned this in school and that is one of the reasons I'm homeschooling her.  Thank heavens for great curriculum!

Did you know that those who have earned teaching degrees and then homeschool their own children claim that their degree did not help them one little bit?  They say that teaching degrees teach mostly classroom management.  So don't feel bad that you don't have a teaching degree.  You don't need one.  It DOES help to be educated, but not necessarily with an education degree.  If I had more schooling I would no doubt be a better teacher.  As it is, I spend a great deal of time educating myself, and that will just have to be enough for now.