A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

 This week's major event was Belle starting online MTC (Missionary Training).  She's got classes from the time she wakes up in the morning until she goes to bed at night, and during every break, she runs upstairs to tell us how good the classes are and how awesome the people are. Her boundless enthusiasm has definitely affected the rest of us for the good. On Sundays, she has no classes.  She gets a break from sitting at a desk on Zoom.  Mission rules are strict about the use of screens, so she's spending her "free" time studying Spanish on the church language app. As for the rest of us, we're working hard at homeschooling around interruptions. Good interruptions--like playdates and field trips and home improvement projects--but they feel like interruptions nonetheless. Monday First thing in the morning Nugget asked us to wrap his truck up in a blanket like a baby.  He would croon at it, "Ohhhhh, Truck.  Ohhhhh, Baby." , Then he would unwrap it and a...

 This week included homemade jelly, a driver's license for Nature Angel, a trip with Beowulf to the ER, a car accident for the three teens, Belle becoming a new missionary, and two dead chickens. And school. We did some school. Actually, making the homemade jelly was school. And we did more stuff, too. In Morning Meeting, we finished this book: And we started this book: We're still plugging along with daily reading from our Egermeier Bible Storybook , our Come, Follow Me studies, and our scripture recitations and hymn singing. I decided to start Harbor and Sprout's Botany Study .  I studied it thoroughly, and I decided that we'll just work through each activity at whatever pace we need to for joy in the learning.  And I'm not making it a beginning-and-ending kind of study with official start and stop dates.   Somewhere in the study guide is a section on foraging, and somewhere in that section is a suggestion for making dandelion jelly.  Rather than wait un...