Marshall's homeschool blog

 While homeschooling I got to take care of two monarch caterpillars. While taking care of them I wondered how the caterpillar turns to a chrysalis and then a butterfly. It would have to reconstruct itself completely, but, how? I've researched it and now I'm going to write about how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. When the creature is just and egg it takes about four days to hatch into a larva. when the larva hatches it is super hungry and eats its way out of the shell and then eats the rest of the shell for some food. After the larva eats the egg it then eats parts of the leaf it was born on, each different type of butterfly is born on a different corresponding plant, monarchs being the milkweed plant. Two to five weeks after being born the larva is a full-grown caterpillar, the full-grown caterpillar is also just eating and getting ready to pupate (make a pupa, then chrysalis). Grown caterpillars with full stomachs will spin a little silk pad that they hook a hook covered a...

       So far Homeschooling is great! Today is the last day of the first week of homeschool and so far I have gone to the beach twice and read, metal detected and gone swimming, that doesn't really sound very educational but its phys ed, science and literacy. I've also learned long division and I struggled at first but with one on one help from my mom I learned to divide 3 digit divisors and later today, I will start learning long division with repeating decimals. Far into the future, we might go on field trips to the Zoo, beach, hell holes and other places we feel are a good idea for what we're studying. It's pretty early in the school year, so it's hard to say what well do in the future but I wouldn't doubt that it will be a better year at home than if I was going to school with a mask and having to adapt to the new rules and protocol. I've already homeschooled for kindergarten so it is easier to adapt to homeschooling than going to school and adapting to ...

     We chose to homeschool this year. With the Coronavirus pandemic we thought staying home would be a better education without stressed parents, teachers and students. We also feel that when staying home I could get a more personal education. Homeschooling allowes me to focus on the parts of my education that I think im not doing well with or that I need more time to study. When learning at home I can choose subjects that am interested in and develop skills that will be useful for me later in life. Going on feild trips and doing our learning outside is more of a possibilty than it would be in school this year.     Im not sure how I feel about homeschooling quite yet, theres alot of benifits and drawbacks so I guess I'll just see how it goes.