We are homeschooling Zeke who would have started Kindergarten this year. Miles as well 
Mondays, we participate in the homeschool group of the Attachment
Parenting group of the Peninsula (APP). We meet in the meadow of a local preserve. We play in the meadow and someone brings an activity – play dough, painting or blocks. We are moving into our cold, wet season so we will be meeting in our homes and using the local library’s community room.
Tuesdays and Fridays, we participate in Sweet Peas the parent run cooperative of the APP group. Six families participate and we meet in each other’s homes. We pay a care giver whose native language is Spanish. We do fields trips and provide enriching activities like arts and crafts, gardening and cooking. I am happy that one famiy is native German speaking and another Spanish. The boys are learning a little Spanish.
Wednesdays, we participate in one of the WelcomeHomeSchoolers Waldroff groups. Eight to ten children ages 3 to 7 years-old meet with a Waldroff teacher in training for 3 hours at one of the families home. They bake bread, play and have songs and stories in circle.
Thursday is our day off Nothing scheduled. We often go to Junior Gym where they have open gym time and the boys climb, balance and hang on the equipment. Zeke has TaeKwonDo classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And he and Bruce practice their ice skating once a week. They both want to be Hockey Players when they growup
At home, we are playing games, making art, watching beans seeds sprout, watching all the heavy equipment on the court (they are putting in an emgerency exit out of the senior residence next door). We inherited an aquarium of California tree frogs and a betta fish so we have "pets" now. We get to the local library weekly and read a lot. I ask Sarahi, the sitter and a native Spanish speaker, to read in Spanish to them.
We are all happy and learning lots.
Posted by ryl as homeschooling, kids at 7:50 PM UTC
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