An Eggleston Getaway

[my3sons]

I just had to share this. We're reading Eggleston for Bigger... On Friday afternoon, after we'd finished school and played a while, I had the boys do their quiet time (which is like 30-45 minutes of book time for them, and sanity time for me). Anyway, I saw a tiny flash of red as I walked through the room my oldest ds was reading in. There, under the blanket, was my ds huddled with his red Eggleston book, furiously reading ahead. He looked like this: , when I "caught" him. I had told him he shouldn't read ahead in the books we were doing for school, because I just wanted to savor them with him. He said sheepishly, "I just read a bit... is that all right? It's just so GOOOOOOD, Mom!"

I couldn't get upset - although I did say he should have asked permission - however, I did make him promise to be every bit as excited about it when we read them again together for school. "You're right, Mom," he said. "We'd better save it for school. I can make myself wait. But can we play war again with the cards like we did for school today after reading this? I can hold off then."

Ahhhh, it's a blur when school ends and play begins sometimes, isn't it? But I guess that's a GOOOOOOOD thing!

[Candice]

my3sons,

I just love hearing about stories like this. This is the type of "schooling" I desire for my children. Where learning and discovering new things turns into part of our lives, not a daily chore that needs to be accomplished. I mean how cool is that, your son just had to move ahead with the story because he was enjoying it so much.

I think we are all striving for that "blur" that you described!


Candice

[Melanie]

Yes! My kids ended up building castles all afternoon after our history lesson. We had princess polly pockets and a camoflaged hunter guy in ours. And yes.....I know it's Saturday.....

[my2guys]

This is a great homeschooling story. Thanks for sharing that. Isn't it great that when your child gets in "trouble", it's because he was reading ahead in one of his school books?!

[MamaMary]

On Friday afternoon, after we'd finished school and played a while, I had the boys do their quiet time (which is like 30-45 minutes of book time for them, and sanity time for me). Anyway, I saw a tiny flash of red as I walked through the room my oldest ds was reading in. There, under the blanket, was my ds huddled with his red Eggleston book, furiously reading ahead. He looked like this: , when I "caught" him. I had told him he shouldn't read ahead in the books we were doing for school, because I just wanted to savor them with him. He said sheepishly, "I just read a bit... is that all right? It's just so GOOOOOOD, Mom!"

I LOVE IT! That is so precious Julie! This will be one of those memories you tuck away and keep forever in your heart

[Carrie]

Julie,

Our two little boys must be kindred spirits! I found my second son had carried the Eggleston book off to his room this past weekend (even though he knows it is supposed to remain down here on the shelf for school-time).

He was making a flip book and said he wanted some facts about George Washington, so he'd looked ahead in the Eggleston book to the part about George Washington and made little pictures to flip like a movie that showed the various battles. I was so amazed by how thorough his research was that I couldn't be upset about the book hiding!

Thanks for sharing!

Carrie