Homeschooling while travelling – Reality Update on October and November

I had a plan for what we might get done while travelling. Here is a reality update. During the time we were in Canada and Virginia we have managed 2 – 3 days a week to do more routine schoolwork. The kids like being back in routine for a few days in between activities and travelling but the first one back after Charleston and Williamsburg were recovery days.  Our trips were packed learning.

We have been slowly reading and discussing our way through Douglas Wilson’s book What I Learned in Narnia. So far we have covered true and false authority and nobility. It is a well written book and has a lot of personal application for all members of the family!

 

The kids still love being read to. Our read aloud story here in Virginia has been Johnny-Tremain (set at the beginning of the revolutionary War in 1775) with some discussion prompts and literary analysis from the Progeny Press guide. It has been very cool to see the names, events, trades and ways of living in the story come up in some of our visits too. We will need a new one in Missouri.

We have been keeping journals as we go, although sometimes there is just too much to write about, as well as a few specific paragraphs for the blog. It’s a good thing we took lots of pictures to prompt our memories and keep it all straight.

Tim has gotten through a good chunk of an online sounds engineering course – downloading pages at the library to read later. Joel has nearly completed his maths and some drawing and Laura some maths, science reading and drawing.

The boys usually ask about half way through their morning for some physics time (otherwise known as basketball) and are improving their technique.

We have really been lacking on the music front though. It was great to be able to use cousin's piano in Vancouver but there hasn't been an easy way to access instruments in Charlottesville. I am hoping that might be better in Missouri.