Our family is undergoing a major paradigm shift. All three children are home schooling, and therefore all home with us every day for the first time since the youngest was a baby (six years). Since dad works and composes at home it's a lot of excitement pretty much constantly.We have only been back a week and we have already found a teacher who will be coming every weekday to give them all lessons, some private, some group. They will do traditional classes in math, language arts, writing, grammar, history, theater and French. Plus the teacher is a filmmaker so she will bring acting and film making into the school year. All three children are also enrolled in a charter public school program once a week where they will be with other home schooled kids taking science classes. In addition they have Taekwondo and private PE classes (right now they are learning baseball). Dad will continue to teach them music and novel writing, I will teach art as well as character development through stories, humor and role play.
For the first two hours every morning our young boy will get his lessons while the girls will have time for their songwriting and novel writing. Then while they get their lessons Shawn will practice drums and hang out for a special ninety minutes with dad.
I included the photos above from our recent summer travels as a send off, and to remind me of my intention for a peaceful, happy, fun, silly, and deeply enriching school year.
