I missed my usual Friday (or Saturday) wrap up post for this week, because I was furthering my education as a homeschooler by attending the annual MACHE conference in Rochester, Minnesota. MACHE is the Minnesota Association of Christian Home Educators.
I’ve attended the conference two previous years when it was held closer to my home in St. Paul, MN. But this was the first time I made the conference more of a getaway. I went to Rochester with two friends, and we shared a hotel room on Friday night and enjoyed our fun dinner out and staying up late chatting about what we were learning at the conference. Good times!
I enjoyed hearing several informative and entertaining speakers, browsing curriculum, and making a few purchases (nothing too major or exciting this year!).
The kids got the thrill of daddy being their “substitute teacher” on Friday while I was gone. 🙂 I’ll wrap up last week and the upcoming week at the end of this next week.
E is also for End! As in, maybe someday winter will actually end in Minnesota (though I don’t think that end is actually here yet, with more snow in the forecast this week). Here’s what we woke up to on Friday morning as I was getting ready to leave for the conference:
Yes, that’s another 6.5 inches of snow. Luckily most of it has already melted. But things are still very not-spring-looking outside.
With our unseasonably cold weather, it is hard to believe that the end of our school year is fast approaching. We have three “regular” weeks of school, then we have our “testing week” (MN is a state that requires annual standardized testing, and we will test over three days with our co-op), and our last week of school (which is made unusual by Miss M’s birthday, a final co-op meeting/picnic, and preparations for a Memorial Day weekend trip out of town).
Of course, learning never has to “end” even when we take a summer break. (Though one wonders if even at the end of May if the weather will still only feel spring-like…or if we are just going to skip spring this year and go right into summer weather!). This summer we’ll review math facts, the older two kids will learn typing, and we’ll study some Minnesota history. And then we’ll start adding subjects back in sometime in July.
I’m linking up with Blogging Through the Alphabet at Ben and Me! It looks like I’ll be about the 50th blogger to link up for the letter “E”. Wow! Head over there to see what other bloggers have thought up for this letter.
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