Five on Friday

1. Maybe we should have waited to get Micah's recorder until closer to the start of classes. He's already taught himself almost half the songs. ;) (On a related note, anyone know how to soundproof a room? lol)

2. I was thinking about the cost of school supplies this year, knowing that the expense is hitting many fellow homeschooling families hard. I'm so very thankful, then, for three things:

• that we have the funds to cover our expenses in the first place (I fully recognize that we're so fortunate that our one income is a decent one!)
• that we chose this year to stick with a program and teachers that we know and that have more experience with homeschool families (such that they've mostly stopped requesting unnecessary things on their supply lists and realize that homeschoolers are prone to share supplies rather than get one for each kid...or at least such that I know them well enough to know which requested supplies I'm not going to bother with, lol)
  
  (For those that are confused by the first part of this, our Options program that we've attended for four years already is changing this year as each school district is taking over the program in their area. After much debate and thought, we opted to switch to Loveland's program since the teachers and administrator we were familiar with were hired there but not in Fort Collins...and since, fortunately, the driving distance is roughly equal for us. While we hope that the Fort Collins program succeeds beautifully with the new director and teachers and facility, we chose to stick with the familiar, as it will be less work...less of a learning curve...for us.)
   
• that I can justify the expense of the instrument purchases (and art supplies) knowing that I don't have to pay for the lessons, as they're technically a weekly class included in our one-day-a-week homeschool school

3. Does anyone have any recommendations on apps for iPhone/iPod for tracking homework? I'm working on time management issues and know that Noah will respond best to some sort of app. ;)

4. Also, does anyone have a good first aid sort of curriculum that they use? I've thought about Red Cross classes, but they're rather spendy and too long a day for younger kids. Just looking for something to cover the basics...so that, for instance, boys would know what to do if certain middle sons were to break another bone or something, lol.

5. Maybe it's just me; but, now that I've been using Pinterest for awhile, I find it annoying that Facebook doesn't have a "scroll to top" button in the bottom right corner also. (Yes, I know this is unrelated to the other four things, but, hey, it's Friday, lol.)

Happy weekend to you!

Comments

[Shawn]

OMG, I was totally thinking #5 the other day!