Swiss Family Robinson

This is how our homeschool day went yesterday.

My youngest had missed an important instruction 4 pages earlier in her English and was totally confused. We had to go back and do a few things over. That took about an hour. It might have gone quicker, had it not been for the crying and whining that took place. My daughter informed me that it drove her nuts having me home and making her do work. Good! That means I am being effective.

18 year old twaddled the day away. I wanted to watch and see what he was going to do. I wasn't really that impressed. So-Today he is going to sit down with me and write out a goal chart and he is going to have to stick to it. Gasp!

15 year old did pretty good after I pulled him off of the video game. He said he was done with his school work, just about 15 minutes after he had begun. Well.....not so!
Pulled him back into reality and he actually spent another 1.5 hours doing homework.

We went to the Library to get Swiss Family Robinson for his English project and they won't have a copy back for a week. Lucky for him. But today he will pick another book and begin reading it. SHOCK AND AWE!

I also picked out a rather cool PBS nature video for them to wrap their brains around.

I love being home with my kids!!!!
Quote from the 1960 movie-Swiss Family Robinson
[Reflecting on their island paradise]
Mother: It's wonderful for today, but what about tomorrow?