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03/12/2004 Archived Entry: "too much writing"

We went to a small zoo on a field trip this morning. We've been there before but I thought Tabtiha would enjoy going with her friends. After 10 minutes, I guess she decided they took too long or something because she went off on her own (with us following, obviously) and ditched her friends without ever looking back, lol. We were back in the car by 11:00am and heading home.

During lessons today, Tabitha complained that the writing was making her too tired so we skipped most of it. I was afraid the writing was a bit much. She writes numbers for math, draws pictures for math and map skills, colors in her Reading workbook, writes and/or colors in The Earth workbook and then writes for grammar. So, I'm cutting out the grammar as it's the most writing intensive. I'm just going to focus on reading to her and Tabitha reading to me and we'll go back to grammar when we get the literature program. I really want to go to the vendor hall of a homeschooling conference next weekend, but I have to buy tickets to The Wiggles at 10:00am and be at a friend's house for a playdate at 1:30. So, if we go, we'll have to time everything just right. I'd really like to look at the literature program in person and not just rely on website descriptions. Plus I need to decide on 1st or 2nd grade (I've already decided the 3rd grade is not for us yet). But, back to the writing, Tabitha enjoys writing on her own and I certainly don't want to kill that desire. She can learn about capitalization and all that later.