Man. Wasn’t it just May or something?? 
) Time is really flying for us and it just seems to keep picking up speed. ) I can’t believe we are completing our second month of 3rd grade already! Everything is still going great. Time4Learning has just been amazing.
I know I keep going on and on about this…I feel like a walking ad, but I am truly being sincere. I can’t begin to express how this program has affected our lives. Especially with the busy schedule and the weather changing and the holidays coming up. Example…we went on a cub scout camping trip this past weekend. We had a great time but it was VERY cold at night. Naturally most of us got sick. (feel better Tracy and family!!) Me and my 3 year old are both sick, but Bailey is fine. So the past two mornings he has just gotten up and logged on and started school. I’m still here for him if he needs me, but he is plugging through and I’m able to stay curled up in my chair with a kleenex attached to my nose. ) I remember the last time I was sick and his curriculum was different. We were both miserable because I was sick but had to sit right there with the teacher’s manual.
He has really enjoyed the program this year, it’s so different than last year. He loves the science and social studies, just loves them! And he loves to tell us about them, which my husband and I both enjoy. We are struggling a little with the math. Not the lessons, but the resources sheets. He conveniently “forgets” to do them during the lessons and then we have to spend a good portion of the afternoon going back and doing them, but we are working on that with him.
We are looking forward to the holidays. I’m one of those holiday freaks, where my official start to the holiday season is November 1st, haha. ) The last 2 years we always took very long breaks from school during the holidays because everything was so chaotic, but this year we are planning to keep our schedule as normal as possible. Yay Time4Learning! )
Terie
November 1, 2007 | 7:00 am1
Kat,
I just now read your story and realized that you had a similar situation with being sick and getting the kids busy on T4L. Glad to see we’re all being creative when dealing with illness and education. It’s very hard to be sick and still care for our active little angels.
Get well soon.
Tere
PS: we are on the road to recovery.
Tracy
October 31, 2007 | 12:29 pm2
Schoolwork when I get sick? What a joke that was in the past. It did not happen very often that I felt as bad as yesterday and today are but I recall it happening twice. I also remember sitting at my desk long enough for them to complain enough about “getting through” their assignments and me “cutting” assignments down to almost nothing so that I did not have to listen to the begging to stop another second. (I hope you guys feel better also, BTW)
I have “trudged” (literally) to my desk yesterday and this morning and sat down with coffee first, green tea with honey, and then a shot of vitamin C…. trying to shake this cold. My boys? Never a question, never a moment where they took advantage of my weakened state and begged off schoolwork! (They did however use Halloween as a “Holiday” declaring “No Schoolwork” for holidays… but that was short lived and said mostly as a joke)
I too am surrounded by tissues, cold meds, hot tea and chicken soup…. My boys? Quietly sitting at their computers doing their school work without so much as a complaint…… Seriously? Are these my children or have Aliens invaded their bodies??