Furlough Day Due to Budget Cuts

Loni comes home after school and tells me that

he has some really important papers to give me

and that I have to look at it immediately..teacher

says. So he hands me a November Calendar 

Reminder and I see 5 days on there are Furlough

Days due to budget cuts..yikes. Starting today. 

then Nov. 22nd through the 24. then Thanksgiving

Holiday. 

I felt bad reading it and wished there was something

I could do to help out. So I started looking through

the closets for the Scholastic Phonics Kit we received

2 years ago and never put to use and let the kids test

out the new Steps to Scholastic Success Slide Show

Mathematics Grades 3-4 CD-Rom we received to 

review for our Holiday Gift Guide on Luscious Deals. 

I'm making sure that my kids learn what they have to

learn with all these furlough days adding up. Maybe 

I went to extremes today but, I wanted to start a new

schedule that would be better for them in the long 

run. Time on our new Wii game machine has been 

cut down to half an hour instead of an hour. We're 

now doing 2 rounds of 20 minute reading sessions 

in the morning and afternoon. I'm trying to get more 

ideas and have been surfing homeschooler blogs 

most of the day, between cooking, cleaning and 

blogging. I want to do more stuff like science and 

studying about other countries. What do you think?