Why do I bother?

I am just not good at this blogging thing! I barely have time to do laundry, I definitely can't find the time for this. My 9, 7, 7 yr olds are not what you will call 'eager students'. They would rather play the whole day outside on the trampoline, or just be running around and riding bikes or playing with Legos or just yapping. They don't want to do school. By the time we finish school, I am exhausted and blogging is the last thing on my mind.

This is our 4th week of school. My 2nd graders are enjoying math and School Song Latin. Everything else is done but not enjoyed, according to them. We actually did art today. We are doing Evan-Moore's How to teach art to children. We still haven't received our WWE workbook 2 yet, so we are doing Year 1 of the textbook as review. History , we are doing SOTW Book 1. Tomorrow, we are going to make a model of the Nile. I will post a picture of it.

My 9 year old does science, art, music and history with the twins. For science, we are doing Mr Q's Classical Life science. For a free curriculum, this is suprisingly meaty, and so far we are really enjoying it.

My eldest is still having problems with the higher order thinking questions in CLE reading 7. We gave up on CLE LA 7 and stated Rod and Staff English 7 instead. He was making too many careless mistakes on CLE LA 7. I think he was overwhelmed with all the different stuff on each lesson.. Rod and Staff is going much better. I bought IEW SWI B two days ago. I can now safely say I own all the writing programs out there. Thank goodness he is also doing Home2Teach writing classes.

Yeah, my mom is coming to stay with me in a few weeks. She will be a big help.