Saturday School

I thought I was done posting entries about our schooling, but when I remembered that it is a woman's prerogative to change her mind, I took advantage of my prerogative.

It is Saturday, many people's day off from both school and blogging.  Since we take Mondays off school (preacher's family, you know), we work Tuesday thru Saturday.  I would love to go to a four-day school week, but no one else in the house seems to be motivated to do that. So here we are schooling on Saturday, like always.  The big girls did their Teaching Textbooks today, because, and I quote, "We LOVE math! This is sooooooo fun!!".  Number three child has done no school work, however as I was de-boning a chicken this morning, she had the brilliant (eyeroll) idea to start a bone collection for science. So we boiled those bones to death, trying to get all the gunk off them, then we dried them in the sun.  Now #3 is off looking for an adequate display case.

In addition to science, we did a cooking experiment.  I have been wanting to try making our own tortillas, since the store-bought ones are expensive and taste like flour and lard.  I am sure the authentic ones don't taste like store-bought!  A little research at allrecipes.com yielded several recipes and lots of reviews with a plethora of suggestions.  We we winged it (wang it??).  As I type, our tortilla balls are resting and awaiting rolling and cooking. The plan for supper is chicken tacos, but if we get floury-lardy flat cardboard for tortillas, we will switch to Plan B, which has not been identified yet.  (Eggs?)  So Saturday School here has consisted of math, science, tortilla-making, kneading, rolling, and being flexible.  Hopefully we won't need the being flexible part!