Homeschooling Somewhere in Between

A few weeks ago Alex asked if we could take his math and go somewhere else with it. I asked where he thought we could go and after some thought he decided on Starbucks. I know, I have weird younguns. They love coffee. We went up to Starbucks and got latte’s (decafe soy vanilla for him–with the threat to the barrsta that I’d be leaving him there if she forgot the decaf part of the order) and we hung out and chatted and then settled in to do some math. We worked through some hard stuff in his Singapore book (fraction/decimal conversions), played some multiplication war, and then chatted and hung out for a while. Then the next week came and he wanted to do it again, and well, after the third week it is kind of a habit. Of course Jordan was quick to get in on the act and so now I’m having some one on one time with both of them every week and we’re getting a bit of hard work done with a treat thrown in. Only problem, it is a bit hard on the budget!

I usually leave schooly stuff for the kids to do when I am at work.   Today I got this text from Alex (who is, ahem, officially a 5th grader):

Were is are gramer at

Sigh.  That pretty much sums it up, lol.

In preparation for Aubrey’s first day at the community college today (and first academic class), I asked her last night to pack her bag with paper, writing utensils, her schedule, and a lunch.
On the way to school she discovered she didn’t actually have any pens or pencils packed.  Her sister loaned her a pen.  Then she realized she didn’t have her schedule and so she had no idea where her first class was to be held.    I ranted just a bit.   You know, if she’d only actually listened to me, blah blah blah.
So I drop her off 15 minutes before her class was to start with no idea where she is going.   She texted me a couple of hours later (to gloat she said!) to say she had no trouble finding her class.  She just hopped over to the Student Center and there were loads of other bonehead students who had come equally unprepared and they had a system set up to look up schedules and room numbers.

But, but but she was supposed to learn that I am right and that being organzied is really helpful!   She was supposed to suffer (just a bit!) as a consequence for her lack of proper preparation.

Sigh.  Resourceful yes.  Organized?  Not so much.