Project week in my older children’s school is a week where they make you homeschool.
The week after Christmas break, the kids have another week off, where each grade has a specific and HUGE assignment that they need to complete that week, and they need to log their hours worked on it so that we can justify it as a school week. It meant that instead of getting my house in order after Christmas, we made multiple library trips and had to monitor their activities every second so they would get even close to done.
Posy had to work up a 10 minute (minimum) presentation on Charles deGaulle. That was pure torture. Ben had to create a diorama of and animal habitat, write an outline, and give a 5 minute (maximum) presentation on his animal. He had to have 5 sources. Unfortunately he didn’t pick an animal with easy to find sources on like penguins, hummingbirds, or kangaroos. No, he picked a North African Jerboa, which has about a half a paragraph saying the same thing in about 3 books in the world. Of course building the diorama was the fun part. The outline and research? Notsomuch.
And in case you are wondering, when I took that first picture, I got, “Really mom?!?” Then he sat down and gave me a nice smile. That stuff on the plate is paint.
Good job getting through all those projects! I am learning to deal with the deadlines for my two older girls this year with papers for their online classes – they usually get the subject about 2 weeks before the due date, and then the fun begins! lol!
Adding external deadlines into homeschooling does kind of stink. I hated that when we were homeschooling, it really takes a lot of the benefit of being in charge of your own time out of it. But it is nice to take advantage of resources like that. Ah, there’s never a perfect system! 🙂