OK Yokosuka Homeschoolers, now I'd like some help from you. Remember back when you had first arrived on base? Maybe it was in the middle of a hot humid summer or right before a typhoon lockdown. Maybe it was in the middle of a rainy winter or just before the holidays. You might have gone right into housing or had to stay in the lodge for months or settled into a Japanese house out in town.
So looking back at those days and being familiar now with what is available on base, what would you suggest someone pack or ship in their unaccompanied baggage? What homeschooling materials got you through the first weeks or months? Or did you concentrate on getting settled and let school wait for a few weeks? What did you make use of in base facilities rather than loading yourself down? If you could do it again, what would you do differently?
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We take the basics, for each child:
ReplyDeleteRead Aloud books, 1 for every 2 weeks
Readers or a list of specific books I _know_ I can find at the library. Enough to get through the expected time.)
Current Math books
A spiral notebook
A blank drawing pad
A small water color pad
A small case with:
~ mechanical pencils & led
~ pencil & colored pencils & small sharpener
~ magnifying glass
~ tweezers
~ water color pencils
~ 1-2 paint brushes
WIth all of that I have enough to math, science, literature, grammar, vocab, history (depending on the read alouds), art, individual projects, and so on.
When we moved here we spent 6 weeks in transit, 5 days at the Navy Lodge, and 1 week without HHGs. So, this allowed us to school for 8 weeks straight, minus a few days off.