Floating out in space

We're still waiting the final batches of school materials. The children are each in their own curriculum, one appropriate for second, fourth and 6th grades.

Persephone's in particular is the Calvert curriculum, which required a placement test. We finished that right up, without our usual delay in scanning and sending or finding a stamp! But, it needed to be graded in order for her school materials to be "unlocked".

So, when the Little Lincoln box for Hawthorne and the Lincoln interactive subject boxes for Havoc arrived a week ago, we still weren't ready to start. I had hoped, vaguely that the 5-10 day window would be more like 5 days and less like 10. We can always dream, can't we? We're just waiting for fedex to show up with Persephone's materials.

Never fear, over the summer we've been working on dragging including my kids in my re-read of the Robert Jordan books in hope that we'll finish by the time the last one is published by Brandon Sanderson early next year? We've been getting into our school habits by mommy dropping all things non-kid and reading or lesson planning or playing games with only the children. We've read 1 and a half of the 13 available books so far. At an hour a day we might get done by the publication date? Maybe? They certainly have having a good time getting into theories and speculation about all the crazy characters and plots. Children after my own heart!

Improvement on previous attempts to home school- when I say "school time" is from 9-3 I never get an objection to leaving video games and calling friends for a bit later. I've very pleased.