JW True Christian Academy

Well, we’ve slowly got­ten back into the swing of things, but 4 den­tal appoint­ments in one week does not hold out much suc­cess for school!

Yes­ter­day, Face asked a ques­tion that I couldn’t answer right away… “Why don’t we do sign lan­guage anymore?”

Good ques­tion!  It seems like in my desire to get back to nor­mal, ASL got bumped off the list!  Not on pur­pose, just sorta hap­pened.  I really want to learn/teach ASL.  I think it’s an awe­some lan­guage skill to have that will ben­e­fit us/them in our vol­un­teer work.

This isn’t the first time this has hap­pened. It’s been on our sched­ule for 3 years now, and every time we have Win­ter Break.. when we come back, it’s not on the schedule.

This last win­ter break was the straw that broke this camel’s back.  I feel as if I actu­ally over­sched­uled our school day.  So, what can I do to revive the ASL…?

Well, since I hate long breaks in our school­ing, I’m out­law­ing them! Ha Ha… no really, from now on, the most we can take off at a time is 5 days.  We will unschool for those time peri­ods, but we can’t quit cold turkey!  It leaves behind too many casualties!

So, I’m already putting together a sched­ule for the sum­mer.  And guess what is first — well, right after Bible Study — yup, ASL!  Even if we only do Bible Study and ASL over the sum­mer, that will make this Mom-Teacher very happy!

Will it work? Of course!!  Ok, no really — it can’t hurt.  The sum­mer break is harder on the kids than on me.  I’m tired of feel­ing like Home­school­ing is a chore after Win­ter break. so hope­fully, this will keep us moti­vated year-round.

I’m feel­ing very good about this approach, and I’ve even dis­cussed it with my min­ions, chil­dren.  They’re on board with it.  (yay!)

Each sum­mer, the kids par­tic­i­pate in the Sum­mer Read­ing Pro­gram through our library, and they enjoy it.  Since we’ve moved away from Twad­dle books (or Dumbed-down, as the girls call it), we’re going to keep up with the amount of min­utes read dur­ing the sum­mer, instead of the num­ber of books.  They’re on board with this, too! (another yay!)

You can bet that I’ll post about how this whole thing works out! Hope­fully, it’ll inspire oth­ers who may suf­fer from After-the-long-break blues!