We did it! 3 days and a park playdate.

I'm still trying to figure this whole home school thing out.  I wanted to do school again today, ALL of it, and we had to be at the park around 11am to meet with some homeschooling families(mom's and kids).  Mostly, I just wanted to see if we could do it in crunch time AND still be able to go to the park.  I knew if we went, we wouldn't do a whole lot once we came home.  Well, WE DID IT!  The kids did great.  We did scriptures with journaling right after breakfast.  Connor did reading(4 books), writing, grammar, math, and history.  Nathanael did writing, reading(with phonics), math, and history with Connor.  Evie read, with me of course, the ENTIRE set of BOB books that teach reading and the ABC's.  We all did history together, so she got that too.  Then we went to the park and meet some friends.  One of them has 3 kids the exact age as our kids!  The boys had so many friends to play with and the two ladies I hadn't previously met were so NORMAL.  It was great.  Everyone had a great time.  We were only there for about an hour when everyone started heading home for lunch.  So we did too.  Then while the kids were eating lunch we did science.  :)  Talk about learning made around YOUR schedule.  It was amazing.  The only thing we didn't do was a "good" art class, they all drew for part of journaling, and I wanted to do Spanish today too.  We didn't get to that.  But I think we did amazing and got a ton done in the amount of time we did it in.  I talked to the other mom's and they said my timing was about right and that's about what they do too.  How can it be so easy when kids are at school for 8 hours?!  My goodness.  I love this 2 or 3 hours a day and done.  We even broke it up so that we could do science after we got back.  The boys loved learning about tornadoes and had tons of questions and are still talking about it.  We're doing a science unit about weather.  This is part of it and then we'll do 72 hour kits as a project.  (Nice.)  We'll probably do some little science experiments too.  This is so much easier than I ever though possible.  A few days ago we got the LAST books we need for they year.  In the living room we set up one entire shelf just for homeschooling and it's a perfect fit.  I have all their books on there.  The only ones that don't really fit are Evie's over sized preschool ones.  He he.  But everything else fits.  I think I'm going to do more math per day than I've been doing once the "school year" starts.  Doing summer school for them is just the best way to start I think.  Next week we're going to Delaware.  Obviously we'll be taking a break for that week.  One week from the whole summer isn't a huge break but I'm sure they'll enjoy it.  I still have a lot of time in the day to get everything else cleaned up and the laundry done and everything.  I use to wonder how mom's with multiple kids could home school.  When you do some of the subjects together it makes it a lot easier.  Evie loved watching the science lesson I had for the boys.  Even though she's not even 3 yet, she's getting extra lessons kids her age wouldn't get for a few more years.  Okay I'm not going to lie, I'm exhausted after today.  But it's 3pm and Evie's down for a nap and the boys have a friend over.  I'm going to relax for a bit since I just finished folding the last load of laundry!  Ahhh......