Internet!

May I just say that it has been really hard to homeschool without the benefit of internet at home. When we first let go of our internet last year I was surprised at how much I missed it. I expected to miss checking my email and facebook page. I knew I'd miss being able to have information at my fingertips to look up recipe or a map or a phone number. I was concerned about how not having internet would impact our homeschooling. Still, I was surprised with how often I needed to look something up but couldn't. But we managed somehow. We went to the library a lot. We focused on reading and phonics and math. We made it work.

When Harry started working at The Word at Shaw the church got him an internet hot spot on his mobile phone so that he could work from home. For the last few months we could get internet when Harry was home and his laptop was available. Believe me, that didn't happen very often. BUT today we got our first day of internet at home, and it was sooooo cool!

Because we noticed squirrels on our morning walk (and we're studying mammals), we googled squirrels when we got home. We found the National Geographic Kids website. Which, by the way, is a fantastic resource. We were able to identify the squirrel we saw as the Eastern Gray Squirrel. We listened to squirrel calls, and saw photos of different types of squirrels. Then we looked up a tutorial on how to draw squirrels. The internet is such an awesome tool!

Homeschooling just became a teensy bit more accessible today. Yay!

Reading for the day:

Genesis 17