Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Some Things That Will Probably Only Happen to You if You're Homeschooled...

Your teacher shows up to school in her pajamas.

Your math lesson is interrupted when your teacher stops mid-sentence to run out the door after a pair of preschoolers who have stripped naked and streaked into the backyard (where they wave and shout enthusiastically at the neighbor, who, naturally, has just at that moment walked out of his house to go to work).

Your teacher often walks by you and your classmates while you're playing and says things to herself like, "Yay! Playing store counts for math!" or "That caterpillar can be science for today!" Just try to get her distracted when that happens so she won't join in the store game and actually make it math, or make you look up the caterpillar and have you write somethingabout it.

While you don't get any real "snow" (or "there might be some ice") days, you get quite a few "it's gorgeous outside - go PLAY" days during warm weather.

You walk into the library, and any one of the librarians (because they all know you by sight, name, what you're currently studying in history, and how much your mother has generously donated every month) automatically pulls out a stack of held books as tall as your youngest sibling.



There are lots of these. Care to share a few? I'll post any comments later.

1 comment:

lisa dunn said...

Hilarious, Anne.

How about when your mom lets you paint yourself blue because she secretly delights in watching you chase your brother and friends around the backyard, shouting, "I'm a Celt! I'm a Celt!"