Summer of exploration

The last few years of our homeschooling journey have been challenging to say the least. The struggle to find the balance between all the storms life threw our way and maintaining their education has been challenging to say the least. 

I think the girls have done a great job working extra hard to catch up on their education. We have all worked very hard this year. 

This summer I am not going to take any classes at the University and they aren't  going to be doing anything but math this summer so I decided that we are going to get back to the basics this summer and so I have declared this summer a "Summer of Exploration." 

The idea of summer of exploration is simple any new topic that any of us want to explore we are going to explore. 

The first thing on our exploration was a topic that has eluded me since grade school. The poetic form called Haiku. 

A Haiku is a Japanese poem that is three lines long the first line is 5 syllables in the first line 7 syllables in the second and 5 in the final line. 

So far Cassie and I are the only ones that have managed to create a Haiku. My Haiku was a reflection on my thoughts toward the second birthday of my husbands since he passed away and Cassie's was a reflection of a weird news story about walking fish.

Birthday Haiku

Birthdays come and go

You will never leave my heart

I love you always

Cassie’s Haiku

Snakehead fish are weird

Snakehead fish can live on land

Snakehead fish are weird

The other topics on our agenda this next week is an exploration of the Fibonacci sequence and odd and probabilities in regards to a contest on a soda bottle. The bottle said one in ten are winners and the girls want to get 10 bottles so we can test to see if the odds are correct. 

It should be a ton of fun exploring new things this summer. I hope that maybe a summer of exploration can rekindle the joy of learning in us all.