We (and by “we” I mean “I”) to go ahead and do school today, so that we can bank an extra day just in case we need it later. We have to do 180 days of school over the course of a 365 day year, but there’s no rule about which days we have to use. I don’t want to skip days and have to make them up, but banking some ahead of time in case we want or need to take an extra day off seemed like a good plan. Now if we want an extra day off for Thanksgiving or if Captain Science gets sick, we’ll already be a day ahead of the game!
We’re doing a little history catch up, since the Captain neglected to finish his timeline and map last week. He’s also transferring his pictures and notes from the Carlos museum onto manila paper. The colored, labeled pictures will be a nice addition to his binder.
Do your homeschooled kids systematically tear the holes out of every single sheet of notebook paper? Captain Science’s papers no long stay in his binders, because the little holes are ripped open. I’ll have to buy some of those hole reinforcers. The little white circle stickers that fix ripped notebook paper holes. What are those things called, anyway? Anyway, we need some of those, because the history binder is ashambles and Egypt is strewn all across the schoolroom floor.
The one downside of schooling on Labor Day is that The Tank is not in school, so he’s been pestering Captain Science all day long. We believe he may have absconded with the Captain’s drawing of canopic jars*.
*Nope! Captain mistakenly drew the canopic jars on the back of the sarcophagus picture, so of course he couldn’t find it.
When I was in elementary school YEARS ago we used to have to buy those circle thingies to put on our ripped papers…and I’m pretty sure they were just called “reinforcements”. So you did good
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I love those reinforcer things. I keep a huge box of them, and have since my junior year in high school or so. Granted, there were a few years they didn’t get much use, but I find myself using them on at least one calendar a year, too.
Of course you have them. Where do you find them? Office Max?
Uh… I think so. I got a big box back then and I’m still using it.
Can it be like the Feed n’ Seed, where I can just scoop me out a scoopful and put it in a little paper sack to take home?
Ooh, just got a box of reinforcer thingies. And once in the spring, but I lost them. Now, we have to use more binders to use them!