Therese shared how her family uses their tablecloth as a patchwork quilt with mementos of their school year. I think it's a great idea and a unique way to share their homeschooling with family and friends. It would also work well with the Homeschool Memory Books. Therese writes:
We started homeschooling my 10-year-old and 5-yr-old sons last year after taking my older son out of a lackluster private school. Nervous about "structure" I decided to set up half of our rather long dining room table with a "school" table cloth. Every morning, after eating breakfast and scanning the newspaper, the boys set up the cloth, get out the books they need and we begin our day. We do literature reading on the front porch (living in Florida helps) and when the weather's too nice to be inside, we go to local parks or locations that fit the material - for instance, we went to the beach for The Old Man and the Sea and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea! In est, the world is our classroom!
The "cloth" has become a patchwork quilt of sorts - with interesting mementos of our busy year. We use fabric markers for notes, grammar & math "rules to remember" and funny pictures and quotes. The boys love to show their friends and family our crazy cloth and it is destined to become a family heirloom, I'm sure!
Our whole family is closer thanks to homeschooling and my son scored higher on the Iowa test than he did the year before! And the memories are priceless! Success!
Comments
Thank you for sharing this simple idea to record homeschool memories.
Great idea. We’d love to see a picture of that table cloth!
I think it’s a great idea. My oldest two have now graduated, the years went by so fast, I have memories but I wish I had a few souvenirs too.