Whew!! What a ride, our first year in Bahrain is wrapping up next week and barring a nervous breakdown we'll have completed ALL our lessons, whoop whoop!! Almost once a week I get asked what we do all day (with an expression that says, "you must be out of your mind"). Here it is a very compacted nutshell...they get up around 7 am and do their school work first (math, reading lessons, spelling) while I work out:)! We meet in the classroom after they have breakfast and take care of their responsibilities around 9:30 am. We do prayer, pledge, and whatever 'power' we are on for the month. Each month we choose a Power which I have songs and books that teach about such characteristics as Integrity, Positive Attitude, Creativity, etc, and it has a 'hero' for each one. For example Benjamin Franklin represented the Power of Industry, we also choose a scripture hero/prophet to study; they rock it in Sunday School these days;)! Then we move onto scripture study. We stopped studying the Old Testament at Christmas time to study the life of Christ from Christmas to Easter and started back up again last month in hopes of completing the OT by the time we leave for Israel in 12 days!! Then we do social studies, history, break for recess (lately the pool;) and lunch. We meet up again to do language arts aka writing which we've used a program that teaches writing skills using the classics (my favorite thing this year)! Anyway, science is usually an event since it is hard to fit it in and art is hard to squeeze in too but it somehow gets done with a whole lot of playing in between. As soon as we let out for the day I only see them in flashes of changing to go swimming with friends, video games with friends, tag with friends or grabbing a snack (with friends;). It has been a great year. My oldest will head back to school next year with a renewed love of learning (and better writing skills) while the younger two will continue on with homeschool and the youngest starts Joy School with a great group of friends. We of course, will all continue traveling the world together.
I attended college at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where they had a motto of "The World is our Campus." We've adopted that as our school motto as well and I plan to share the world with you in future postings but for right now we hope you'll settle for seeing our classroom....
I attended college at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where they had a motto of "The World is our Campus." We've adopted that as our school motto as well and I plan to share the world with you in future postings but for right now we hope you'll settle for seeing our classroom....
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| Our 3 year old's corner where she spends most of her time "reading" her books. |
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| World of Wonder School (WOW School) "The World is so full of a Number of things I'm sure we should all be as Happy as Kings." R. L. Stevenson |
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| The huge windows serve as great "chalkboards". |
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| My table. |
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| A touch of whimsy. |
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| My "catch all" place which gives the illusion that I'm organized. |
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| Remembe this place, one day it'll be in the Smithsonian. Okay, maybe not but great things are happening here! |
