So, after some lengthy internal debate, I think I'm ditching the charter's approved cirriculum. I don't think cirriculum is the answer. We're used to a more montesori/unschooling/lifestyle of learning here and well.. it had been working fine for us. Getting them to SIT and complete a worksheet is.. well...sucking he very life out of any interest in learning.
So.. this week I've been to the library, done my research and we're learning about the ocean and beach.. We went to the marina today and observed crabs sunning themselves, seagulls, pellicans and sand pipers. We might even make a lap book.
And tomorrow is free museum weekend with bank of america, so we'll be visiting the local aquarium who participates and seeing the stuff we're going to be learning about. We read the book on killer whales, uh, I mean Orcas and the one on coral reefs...
We do much better with hands on stuff than "were does your food go" which we understood in about a day- the basic mechanics of it as they required but to spend 5 weeks on it- sheesh... we'd be able to start memorizing the essential amino acids and the Krebs cycle... but... no..... the rediculous projects were.. well... a waste of resources- particularly time. (sorry, I'm sure you cirriculum planners have good intentions and in a class of 20, I'm sure it's about all you can handle, but.. thanks, but no thanks).
I can't wait til our conference when I show up Sans the 200 completed work sheets..
And since I don't have the time or money for therapy... ponder this with me for a little while...
There are few things I can do which would pay as well as the job for which I was trained (and was fairly good at (good on the job teaching, lol, if I could brag...) I'm re-evaluating the need to go to work (ie. trying to re-work the numbers and my life to stay home..) and I realized that few things can pay me what a day's work as a NP can. really. If I took that much in salary from little lions, it would sink it completely.
Is there such a thing as being over educated and expecting too much of a pay scale?
Or does that only apply when the woman is the one bearing the brunt of the homemaking and child care and the one with the education?
It is nice to have the ability to support us if needed, but sometimes it adds to that tearing of my heart.. If I didn't have this education, I wouldn't have the option or tempation to work and make bunches of money.. so I'd stay home and be moving into the single wide.. but then it's a slippery slope.. I can work, so we hire someone to watch the kids while I work and then I have to work to pay daycare and gas for the commute... etc...
But my issues aside...
GO PALIN!!
(maybe I should send my kids to public school and join the PTA... worked for her...)
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Go, Gina!!
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