When kids are homeschooled, it's kinda hard to play hooky. I mean seriously, where are they going to go? "I'm not going to school today...I'm...uh...staying home." Haha...gotcha!
What's even worse is when homeschooling parents want to call in sick and go play hooky. How many other teachers have to actually take their students with them when they want to ditch school?
That's me today. I feel like playing hooky. And I'm not talking, "hey, let's take a field trip or do a nature walk." I mean, I don't want to do anything educationally related at all. Nothing. I don't even want to correct my kids manners today. I will because I'm OCD about their manners and proper grammar, but aside from that I don't want to pull out the counting critters for addition, I don't want to do map work and I don't want to discuss the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Nothing, nada, zilch.
See, we've had two very long days and nights in our house. The kids were up late two nights in a row, which is generally a recipe for chaos anyway, and we've had Verizon digging up our neighborhood to install big orange cables of some sort and the jackhammering, digging and coffee inspired good natured comaraderie commences at 7am. Toss all that in a big bowl, mix it up and you have a healthy dose of exhaustion with a heaping side dish of grumpy. Not me...the kids. I'm not grumpy. I'm not. I'm just expressing my very strong desire to avoid my teaching responsibilities while blaming it on anything and everything that shifts the blame to something that isn't me.
So I have declared today to be a snow day. (It's not snowing) Or a holiday. (Today is National Almond Day)* Or a teacher workday. Take your pick. It is a workbook free day.
*Today is in fact National Almond Day. It is also the anniversary of both the first 911 call and the day King Tut's tomb was unsealed. All items of significant historical importance that are being sadly overlooked. Hence, my selfless decision to hold a solemn school-free day to honor almonds, emergency services and Indiana Jones.
Excellent post! Very funny, and I can totally relate! National Almond day...that's great.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Michelle!
DeleteOn the 16th we had breakfast with a friend and learned a little about rocket science and horse farms. Then we visited the SPCA. On the 17th we did only the bare bones school work ... we SO SO SOOOOOO NEED a snow day! Love you, Shel
ReplyDeleteThank you, Shel! Let me know if you need any more holidays. :) But this California girl does not need snow!
DeleteYou have just given me a flood of good memories from my own homeschooled childhood. My mom would give us snow days whenever the kids at the local school had one, and I'm certain it was for the mental sake of both teacher and students. There's no point homeschooling if you can't decide the schedule yourself! So you go and take your day and celebrate the hell out of those almonds. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's right, Bridget! Almonds are important! And then we ended up getting snow on Monday too. :)
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