New School Year

This is the first year  homeschooling all of my girls... so far I've been so nervous, Googling every thing I possibly could to ensure me doing this the "Right Way". I have finally reached the end of the first semester and I have too say I'm relieved!!

When originally deciding to embark on this journey I was met with plenty of nay sayers; and still am. Hubby and I made the decision to home-school after Bri (our eldest) kept coming home and proclaiming that she had learned nothing that day  How did you go to school all day and learn Nothing?!!
That bothered sooo much! That launched a series of questions in my mind.... Are we doing the right thing by sending them away from us everyday? Is it our responsibility as parents to educate our kids? Do I really want to go against the grain?

All these thoughts flooded my mind prior to making this life changing decision. In the end I came to the conclusion that my kids were too important to me to hand  over to the public school system, a system that kicks God out, a system that still teaches that Christopher Columbus discovered America.

This semester we covered the basics of course: Reading, Writing & Arithmetic, as we always will.
In addition to that we covered the solar system during science and we studied Ancient Egypt.
During our unit study of Ancient Egypt we got to explore the first form of writing :cuneiform.
The girls got to make clay tablets made from flour I had in my cabinet, then discussed the story of Moses.
My little brother ,upon completing his tablet says "wow! I'm in the 5th grade and thy haven't taught me anything about this or Mesopotamia yet , can I be home-schooled?"
That just confirmed in my spirit that I was doing the right thing.

Why didn't I think of this sooner?