First Day of Snow

Last week we finally received enough snow for our kids to sled and

have tons of fun. Of course, we took of the day from schoolwork!!!

Since Steve works from our home, he joined us for sledding. Isn’t it

great to have freedom in your work. We all had a great time as a family,

sledding and checking out better places to “play” in the snow. Almost all

of the kids in town had the day off from school, too. My son met

friends in the neighborhood to sled down some “major” hills.

I started to wonder why homeschoolers don’t take off the first day

of snow. It is such a great memory that my kids will always have.

For me, making that memory is more important than doing one

more page in our Math workbook. The way I see it is this: If you

take off the first day of snow each year for 12 years of school,

your child misses 12 days of school. That’s 12 days out of 2100,

if you school about 175 days a year. I think every kid can miss a

few days in his school career, especially to make a memory of a

lifetime.

I know my kids will have memories for a lifetime . . . that of their

parents (& their dog”) sledding down the hills with them :-)

Kerry

Homeschool Curriculum