Road Trip

DrS and myself have to go on a road trip so he can spend the holiday with his paternal family. This involves a lot of driving on my part, a lot of whining on my ex-husband's part, and a lot of data usage on DrS's part.

It feels a lot like this but it's actually much, much worse.

This also means that homeschool is officially/unofficially on holiday break. Except that DrS and I are leaving on Monday and Reo isn't going on break until Wednesday. So, with my oldest son - an eighteen year-old public high school senior - on break for the week and the husband continuing to work from home, I can enlist the help of substitute teachers for two days of valuable learning.

This can be best achieved with more traditional methods so these men can plug 'n play teacher with no difficulty and Reo can complete tasks without much assistance or additional guidance.

In Geography and History, Reo is going to learn the US State capitals as well as the capital cities of Ancient Egypt. Unfortunately, I haven't found any handouts or worksheets that are suitable for learning the Ancient Egyptian capitals and their unique qualities so I've been writing this material this evening. This is not the first time that I've had to structure my own curriculum so I could teach the appropriate information, but this is the first time I've had to create an original and informative hand-out that anyone could read and understand as a solitary lesson.

If I'm in the position to do this more often, especially if Reo responds positively to this format, I will likely create a folder in my Google Drive to share these docs. Time will tell.