Work or Play?

Bing and I both spent the last couple of days fairly under the weather. However, being home yesterday allowed me to look into several options around the Hamptons.

One of the requirements for homeschooled kids is physical education. I, frankly, hate exercise. I wish I didn't, and yet, I do.

But trawling through the homeschooling Yahoo groups, especially the Suffolk County Homeschoolers group, I found a listing for Parkour gymnastics.

Parkour, as far as I can tell, is some kind of jumpy-flippy Ninja-style athletics, and a gymnasium in Westhampton offers it for boys over 8.

Most importantly, Bing is fascinated with Parkour.  He is so excited for his first class!

We've also signed up, with other homeschoolers, for golf in the Spring, four lessons, in Riverhead. And a fencing class for homeschoolers in Rocky Point.

Bing is doing all of his Time4Learning curriculum, with me choosing several lessons a day in the core subjects. He seems to really enjoy it. It is amusing and when I listen in to some of the spoken lessons, I find myself cracking up.

He then reads his Harry Potter book for a while, and at night I read "Candyfreak" to him. He has Parkour tomorrow, and on Friday, he has ice skating (again, with other homeschoolers) and then a piano lesson at Crossroads Music in Amagansett.

On Sunday, we are going up to Huntington to a meeting with the local chapter of the Society of Creative Anachronism -- sort of like Renaissance fair people, but not so hardcore. You can check out their Web site here - scaducks.org. They have all sorts of activities, and we are looking forward to eating mutton and throwing javelins, or whatever.

The point is, a lot of this probably feels like play, rather than work, to Bing. But it's all part of the whole homeschooling package we're trying to provide.

Stay tuned.