Back at it

It was back to the daily (homeschool) grind today. I can’t say I missed homeschooling this past week. Homeschooling is work, isn’t it? What I did miss was the purpose to our day. I’m the type of person who needs to have a goal… even if I don’t make the mark, it’s nice to have that target to-do list. We did have a couple of un-schooling moments, but I’ll be darned if I can remember exactly what was learned. Something to do with creative writing that required spelling new words. And painless spelling lessons are tops in my book.

On our first homeschool break this year

Our break from homeschooling has morphed into a computer/blogging break as well, so things may be a little quiet around here for the rest of the week. We finished up last week on a good note and I have a list of things I want to get done, so… enjoy those precious homeschooling moments with your little ones and we’ll catch up next week.

A more realistic list

Once again I turn to Anna Quindlen for a list regarding books. From her book How Reading Changed My Life.

The Ten Books I Would Save in a Fire (If I Could Save Only 10)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
The Collected Plays of William Shakespeare
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Books from years past. See why Time magazine had to use the cut off date?