Adventures in Homeschooling

In the excitement of posting today's winning story, I forgot to mention the genre for next week: Third Person Realistic Fiction This is just as it sounds. Try to have the submission emailed to me by Tuesday or Wednesday at shannonelawson26@gmail.com. Any questions, let me know. Otherwise, happy writing!

When I suggested "First Person Fiction" as a genre, I didn't realize I would receive such a clever and creative story! Not only did he tell a story from a unique point of view, but he even created new words to match it! "HOW    PEANUT      ESCAPED" BY  JUDE LYONS 1  Noelle’s Room.  I decided to escape and have some adventure! I ran out of my house, and ran a few miles on my treadmill until I felt I was ready. So I fell off my tread mill and climbed my water bottle. ‘’You are going to have to withstand a headache peanut.’’ I said to myself. Then I smashed my head against  the ceiling. Ooww! I yelled. And fell off my bottle. ‘’Hmmm,’’  I said. ‘’Aha!” I ran around my cage collecting bedding to make a helmet. I put it on. Then I climbed my bottle again.  ‘’Here goes!’’ I said, and smashed my head again. ‘’Not as much pain as last time, but painful just the same,’’ I said. I did it again.      Crash! Went the...

Like all good mothers, I constantly worry about my children. Am I providing them with enough? Too much? Are they involved in enough activities? Do we spend enough time together as a family? Do they pray enough? With enough piety? Then, as a homeschool mom, I also worry about academics: are my kids studying enough? Are they studying the right things? Do I overteach? Underteach? How can I fit it all in?????? Each year, as I'm sure all homeschoolers do, I restructure things a bit as we have more kids learning more things at higher levels. It's always a balancing act, and in the past, I've been sure to give time in our schedule for all important areas: Religion, math, reading, science, etc. I even patted myself on the back when there was some overlap. Writing during history time? Crushing it! Math during science lessons? Awesome! I always made sure to supplement history lessons with religious books and topics. Recently, as I was reading this book  I came across a descrip...