What? Really? For REALS??? You have so got to be kidding me!!! School is OUT Early for the whole entire rest of the year!!! I can't even believe it! This is probably the best surprise during my whole lifetime and beyond because we were just about ready to take a big fat quiz about geography (that just means where places are and stuff) Well, I already know where Florida is because it hangs way down and California is way on the other side there on the map in our family room and its where Audrey lives plus, I know where I already live...but there's a whole boat load of other places in this world and my teacher thinks we should know about all of them and well I'm not too sure that is what my brain was born to do. I kinda think that some kids are born to like geography and some kids are just born thinking about Math and some kids are like me, and we like the Library and Words and things, and some kids just like Recess or hanging on the monkey bars...but we all have to try everything a little bit anyways (kinda like a Thank You bite when you have to try something totally freaky on your dinner plate before you gag and push it over to the other side and forget about it) anyways, the more we learn the more we get each other sorta and so I have been trying to remember lots of places since its my responsibility at Ephraim Elementary, but NOW!
FREEDOM! I will ride my bike and watch movies and Luci will come over and we can make up our own cookie recipes. I cannot wait! Homeschool, here I come!
So, Luci and I just about ran all the way home and started to make plans on my front porch, when my Momma said, "Hadley can you come in the house. We need to talk." And I was excited because we did need to talk...and I could tell her all about the things that Luci and I want to do together now that school is cancelled and I am glad it was because all of the teachers can really use a huge break from all of us kids for a while I think. So, My Momma starts talking about having Home-School...and I told her that I already know and I told her where we should go for our field-trips and what kind of cookies we should put in our lunches and stuff! But, she said that Luci had to do homeschool at her home and I had to do homeschool at my home. And that Luci had to have recess at her home and I had to have recess at my home. WHAT? She told me all about Corona Virus (and don't even try to see it...because you can't! It's invisible.) But, it means my life is pretty much over for a while. No Friends, No going on fieldtrips for a bit. Yes homework. Yes keeping my room clean. Yes, School at home. NOOOOOO!
"Honey,"I think she must have seen my big smile turn upside down right then. "We will have a great time together as a family. You will see!"
Well, we did get a fun week and then homeschool began and that was 3 weeks ago, and so far so good. I have taught my mom how to do some Math... just the regular stuff like: fractions, multiplication and division using multiple digits. Plus a little about geometry and algebra.
- I showed her how we need to collect data and convert the information into graphs, charts and tables. I always kinda like that calculations stuff cuz' you can sort it all out with different colors and I am all about colors, but she just looked at me and said, "Hadley, YOU are amazing!" and then she told me to just keep going while she had to go check on something. I waited for her before I started on Science because I knew she wouldn't want to miss it! We are learning about electricity and forms of energy and matter . That is so fascinating and I didn't want her to miss about it! I kinda got side-tracked when I thought about my colored charts and so I showed her about the color wheel, (I think she forgot stuff like secondary, analagous, monochromatic, and complimentary colors so I helped her remember and she acts like I am a genius or something), then I reminded her about things like: synonyms, antonyms and homonyms, because my teacher had all that in my packet that we picked up at the school. After the first week, I sorta started to be the teacher sometimes.
OH NO! PLEASE DON'T EVEN TELL ME! (I just peaked ahead and yup! in a week or two we have to do geography and finish up about the states and places and how big they are and WHERE they are...What in The WORLD kind of HOME-SCHOOL are we running here? I kinda think that some kids are born to like geography and some kids are just born thinking about Math and some kids are like me, and we like the Library and Words and things, and some kids just like Recess or hanging on the monkey bars...and now we all have to have home-school and do geography next week and I am so done!
But, when Mom told me about the people all over the world and how they were helping each other because of an invisible virus...I started to think about that. She wrote a list of good people on our little whiteboard. There are teachers trying to teach on the computer, and lots of truck-drivers bringing food to the stores, and the store guys who wear masks and put the food in a sack and all the nurses that wear masks and help people feel better, and the bank guys that try to help people have business, so they won't go under...(I don't know where under is, but I will find out in geography probably, and there are humanitarian people who are just nice and send clothes and food to scared people, and in some countries neighbors sing to make everybody happy, and how about our mail lady, Mrs. Caitlyn who always smiles even when she wishes she could go home and eat lunch probably. Well, our whole white board was full of people that help other people...and for awhile...I thought inside myself: Hadley, you should learn about geography because then you can know about good people everywhere all over the whole globe in our frontroom...because I want to be a helper person too! OK, So I will study geography because I already know where some stuff is plus I am absolutely 100% sure that Mom will know all the rest! She is my teacher after-all!
