{"id":49,"date":"2007-11-13T21:08:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T02:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aprendemos.yuriar.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-11-13T21:08:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T02:08:41","slug":"no-such-thing-as-a-sick-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/2007\/11\/13\/no-such-thing-as-a-sick-day\/","title":{"rendered":"no such thing as a sick day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve actually done more &#8220;school&#8221; today then we have in several weeks.  Yet the fact that we are all sick, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some sicker then others<\/a>, has not slowed us down today!<\/p>\n<p>In between movies, GeekBoy has done a page of a math workbook (which is something he almost never touches!), and 4 pages from a language workbook.  Meanwhile, thePinkDiva and Lil&#8217;Chicano practiced identifying their numbers with flashcards.  tPD is working on numbers 9-12 right now, and the Lil&#8217;Chicano is already id&#8217;ing 1-4 all on his own!  How awesome is that?<\/p>\n<p>I continue to be amazed at how much information these kids soak up, just living life.  I grew up in the &#8220;sit at your desk for 8 hours a day&#8221; environment.  It really is hard for me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrap my head<\/a> around the fact that it is not necessary.   This is the point where you could start calling us &#8220;unschoolers&#8221;, and we are&#8230; but not really.  We jump from topic to topic with lightning speed.  Usually the kids, all three, are interested in knowing everything they can fit into their heads about a subject for about one week.  Then they are on to something new.  But I do insist on the classic fundamentals of Math and Language.  We gravitate towards books, a la Charlotte Mason Method, and utilize unit studies and lapbooks on occasion.  All of that makes us more of an <a href=\"http:\/\/preschoolerstoday.com\/resources\/articles\/homeschooling.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eclectic Homeschool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of being eclectic&#8230;\u00a0 I found this great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeschoolestore.com\/catalog\/product_info.php?products_id=94&amp;osCsid=e3ud9lhat4862qhcdhcvj2q8c3&amp;affiliate_id=6983\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thanksgiving Lapbook<\/a> unit over at HomeschoolEstore (soon to be Currclick.com).\u00a0 Looks like fun.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got to get into it and really figure out how it&#8217;s supposed to work and all, but it looks like my kids will love it.\u00a0 We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve actually done more &#8220;school&#8221; today then we have in several weeks. Yet the fact that we are all sick, some sicker then others, has not slowed us down today! &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6,7,30,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capt740","category-general","category-language","category-ltvv111","category-math","category-thepinkdiva"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}