It's Going...sorta

So the first week of homeschooling has been challenging.  For me.  I still don't really have a curriculum and I feel as though Emily is suffering because I don't really know what I'm doing. 

Emily gets bored very easily and loses interest rather quickly, so I have to be on my toes, which I'm not.  I'm frustrated, but I know with time I'll get things going better for her. 

We have been working on coins and what each coin is called and its value, something that she previously refused to even talk about.  So that is progress!  She's getting really good at counting coins.

We started an experiment with re-growing green onions.  I cut the ends off of store bought onions I was using for a salad and put them in a jar of water.  However, our little project went sour.  Literally.  We were getting some growth, which was very exciting, but I think after a day or so, they need to be in dirt.  The water really started to stink, and today during a lesson on plants and roots, I picked up one of the onions and apparently stirred the water.  If the stink had a color, it would have been a greenish-brown, the color I imagine body odor to have.  Gross, gross, gross!  I threw it all out (outside) and left the jar outside to dry out in the sunshine to hopefully get rid of that stink. 

Avery is doing some school work, but mostly she is a distraction to Emily.  Avery likes to play with whatever toy Emily really wants to play with, so when she does this during a lesson, Emily gets mad and all of the attention I had with her is gone.  I haven't really started any school work with Avery - just mainly alphabet pages or a hidden picture worksheet. 

Our New Journey: Homeschool

Emily has had nearly twenty sick days this year.  Mostly because of diabetes-related issues, some because of sicknesses that affected her diabetes, and some were just plain 'ol sicknesses. 

Since we've had so many days where her blood sugars are out of control (and since she'd just end up in the nurse's office anyway to get her numbers back in range), we decided we'd homeschool Emily, even on the days when her blood sugar was high and if she had ketones. 

Plus...Emily is a very spirited child.  She has it in her mind that she will do something, and if you try to get her to do it another way, or maybe not at all, she gets very upset.  VERY.  She will end up refusing to listen to you, or her teacher, and just get in trouble and not get anything done.  I decided that this was something we needed to address at home.  It is not fair that her teacher had to deal with this issue, especially if it was something that should have/could have been avoided by something we did/didn't do at home.  So, there's another reason she's being homeschooled.

And soon, Emily will be getting a pump.  She's not keen on new and different things that are attached to her body.  She will probably get pretty cranky and belligerent and I feel that this is another thing we can help her with at home and avoid her getting into "trouble" at school.


DAY ONE:

Emily is drawing one of her Skylander creatures.

 Here are all the books we have for her learnin'.

 Emily was given a subject to write about and illustrate.

 "Me on Television"..."I am on television.  I am in a fairy movie.  I said a magic word.  It's Pippi.  The End."

 And then she did some addition problems.  I think these were a bit easy for her, but we'll get it right soon.

 I used a page protector so we can reuse the book when Avery is ready!

So there it is.  We're homeschooling.  Emily is very excited.  I'm scared and unsure that I will be able to do this.  I don't know what I'm doing.  But it is going to be done.  We are going to have battles, we are going to hate each other, we are going to have to learn new ways of doing things, but we are going to do this.