For the last two years we have added into our home school routine, what I affectionately call, “Supplemental Saturday”. I first started it because incorporating the “fun” side of home school was lacking on my part, because I don’t really like the mess, organizing and implementing of “crafty” type things. I always had big plans, but life would happen. I tried to do the fun things in the afternoon, but by that point the girls were usually involved in outdoor play most days, or deep into something else or we had different errands to run on any given day. I also had a few subjects that I did not want to do daily and felt weird only doing as sporadic as I was attempting to do them. Thus, Supplemental Saturday was born.

Let’s face it, home schooling, school at home, virtual schooling, all schooling is different right now. Just because we already home schooled, doesn’t mean that our life hasn’t been just as affected as those in the public schools. My girls are resilient (most kids are more resilient than we often give them credit for), but they notice the different and are just as out of sorts with this all as everyone is.

I would like to take a moment, now to compare what is typical for us for home schooling versus what it is like home schooling during Covid-19.

I have been homeschooling our oldest child now for three years. In that time, I have, unfortunately, had a lot of trials and errors, as far as how we run home school in our home, and the curriculum we have chosen. When looking back on it I have come across some reasons why things have not worked for us. This post deals with how I failed had to reexamine home school life in our house and decide what was not working and why and the changes I made to start making things work for us and get that “ah ha moment” of home school bliss.