Back To School

 

As friends and family back home are starting up school once again, we figured it would be nice to give our readers an update on our World Schooling, as Michele refers to it. As you can infer by the pictures above, it has its ups and downs.
Mom has the role of Principal, Math Teacher, History Teacher, Social Studies Teacher, Language Arts Teacher, and everything in between. She works hard to get all of our curriculum accessible and helps explain and answer questions. Dad helps out when we need extra challenges or when Mom is busy with the other kid. It feels like all of our work is math. I work on math topics that my teachers in Vermont have emailed to us, use my mom’s district resources, Kahn Academy as well as problems from Singapore Math. Nick works on math facts and 5th grade lessons from Michele’s resources.
Nick does journal writes and prompts pretty much daily while, my literacy at the moment is exercises from a travel writing book.
We both have assigned reading from Head Master Michele, usually on the area or culture we are experiencing. Yesterday we read a book on the Korean War because we will be going to the Demilitarized Zone in the next few days.
That’s about all we are up to at the moment. We both read independent e-books and Nick has weekly spelling lists.
By far, the most challenging aspect of World Schooling is not the material, but trying to learn from your parents. I don’t know, but there is something about it that makes a “little mess” up seem like a huge deal in my mind.  It’s kinda hard to explain. There has definitely been some moments when I’ve just had to stop and just take a drawing or listening to music break before I resume my lesson.

First Day of School! Today’s classroom, train from Mokpo to Seoul