*Back to the Grind!*

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Monday we started back to school. Since I don’t have access to a printer, I can’t do the lesson plans the easy way like I would at home. I could just look at them on the iPad or laptop, but I am a pen-and-paper kind of girl! I like to be able to check the box when it is done. To keep things as simple as possible (we only packed 100 sheets of looseleaf paper after all!) I put the three youngest kids’ lesson plans on the same page.
Everyone working diligently at the Dingle library on Tuesday. We worked for a couple of hours and then had a great lunch at a little cafe right near the library, followed by a trip to the park.
Here are all the school supplies and books for Kelly, Bobby, and Nora. Anything that we have access to on the computer, such as music and poetry, we left those books at home. When we are done at the end of the school year, we will only bring home samples of their work and the books that can be reused, such as math textbooks.
This is Colleen’s desk in her room, complete with 7th grade books and supplies.
Tenth grade requires a lot of books, and Maggie doesn’t have a desk in her room, so the box they arrived in is serving as her storage for now. Both Maggie and Colleen had their first online classes from Ireland this week, and everything went well.
We will be trying to have longer school days during the winter so that when the nice weather comes, we can spend more time outside and taking field trips.
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We're a homeschooling family of eight - five girls and three boys. Our children are ages 20, 19, 17, 15, 12, 10, 7, and 5. We will be living in Ireland for the next six months, and then going to Tennessee! This blog is a documentation of our travels. Enjoy!! :)

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  1. Love that you have access to the Library. Don’t envy you all moving the supplies all over Ireland with you! Everyone looks very settled in – and your planning is done for the week which is all good. Anyone speaking in a brogue yet? 🙂 L,K

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    1. No one has a brogue yet, but we are wishing we had learned some gaelic before coming! Several people said no one really speaks gaelic, but here in Dingle all the signs are in gaelic first, then english. All the locals speak it, and it is the primary language in the local schools as well. Yes, moving the supplies will be a pain! Especially that 10th grade box, it weighs a ton! But the little kids can fit everything in a backpack. Today the sun came out and it felt like spring, so we spent all morning outside instead of doing school 🙂

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  3. We are enjoying “following” you during your travels and adventures! We are going to start using your travels as a research opportunity to learn about the areas/places you are visiting. It looks so beautiful over there. Spring weather sure sounds lovely. It was super duper windy here today in PP and there is a possibility of some snow this weekend. Please send our love to everyone. We miss you all.

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