Enemy of Entropy

A Day in the van

8 May 2006, 10:59 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Education, Family, Homeschooling.

And it was, truly. Which is why this looks much the same as it did last night.

Katie and I drove all over metro Atlanta, test­ing out the new wheels in the process. A med­ical appoint­ment, a trip to the bank, the post office, our mail drop, a craft store, a school sup­ply place, a cou­ple of book stores, Phoenix & Dragon, and some­thing I know that I’m forgetting.

You wouldn’t believe how much “home­school­ing” gets done on the road. Had the dealer had a van in stock with a DVD player installed, I could eas­ily have jus­ti­fied it for purely edu­ca­tional pur­poses. As it is, I’m glad my lap­top has a DVD player, as we find var­i­ous BBC and PBS series pretty good sup­ple­men­tary mate­ri­als at times.

No AV mate­ri­als today, though — just books, paper, cal­cu­la­tor, and a lot of dis­cus­sion. Sci­ence, alge­bra, world his­tory, crit­i­cal think­ing, Eng­lish, vocab­u­lary, cur­rent events…

Oh! We got our Latin texts! Katie and I have decided to start study­ing Latin together this sum­mer. I’ve always regret­ted not hav­ing had a chance to study it, and it can only help her. So here we go!

The girl got some knit­ting done in the car while we talked, too. As she gets more con­fi­dence in dri­ving, I look for­ward to get­ting some stitch­ing done while she dri­ves. On the other hand, she’d get fewer lessons done. Hmmm.

I need to study to try to keep a lit­tle bit ahead of her. We’re going to have another blog where she, Sam and I post about our learn­ing adven­tures. It isn’t quite up yet, unfortunately.

Namaste,

Cyn

3 Comments »

  1. avatar Sambearpoet. 9 May 2006, 8:26 am

    Yep we’ll get the other set up soon enough.

  2. avatar HopeEvey. 10 May 2006, 6:28 am

    It’s quite a pleas­ant change to see/​read a par­ent who has enough con­fi­dence in her child to look for­ward to that child driving.

  3. avatar Cyn. 10 May 2006, 2:09 pm

    Thank you, dear! My par­ents put me to work as a chauf­feur right away, so I sup­pose I’ve inher­ited their atti­tude. And, of course, since I have the most mar­velous girl in the uni­verse, I have rea­son to be confident!

 

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