Tablecloth records mementos of busy homeschool year
The boys love to show their friends and family our crazy cloth and it is destined to become a family heirloom, I’m sure! Therese writes:
We started homeschooling my 10-year-old and 5-yr-old sons last year after taking my older son out of a lackluster private school. Nervous about “structure” I decided to set up half of our rather long dining room table with a “school” table cloth. Tablecloth records mementos of busy homeschool year originally appeared on About.com Homeschooling on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 at 03:01:42.Permalink | Comment | Email this I think it’s a great idea and a unique way to share their homeschooling with family and friends. Therese shared how her family uses their tablecloth as a patchwork quilt with mementos of their school year. The “cloth” has become a patchwork quilt of sorts - with interesting mementos of our busy year. Our whole family is closer thanks to homeschooling and my son scored higher on the Iowa test than he did the year before! We do literature reading on the front porch (living in Florida helps) and when the weather’s too nice to be inside, we go to local parks or locations that fit the material - for instance, we went to the beach for The Old Man and the Sea and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea! Every morning, after eating breakfast and scanning the newspaper, the boys set up the cloth, get out the books they need and we begin our day. Success! And the memories are priceless! In est, the world is our classroom! We use fabric markers for notes, grammar & math “rules to remember” and funny pictures and quotes.
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