...your 5 year old daughter would rather draw Egyptian hieroglyphics than play with dolls.
...date night with your husband involves school errands and grocery shopping.
...any given morning you can hear all of the following sounds going on simultaneously:
a kindergarten phonics song being sung by a 5 year old, an 8th grader thinking through a Biology question out loud, a 4th grader solving math word problems, a 2nd grader reading aloud his story for the day, and a 3 year old fending off some imaginary bad guys.
...your kids (and you) love to watch history documentaries while eating breakfast.
...you hear your kids playing Pharaoh, Israelite slaves, and taskmasters during recess.
...sometimes recess involves shadowing Mom in landscape architecture, child development, interior design and maintenance, or kitchen chemistry.
...your 3 year old is continually getting confused between the words "mummy" and "Mommy", but he identifies the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids at Giza. In fact you catch him playing put the mummy in the pyramid with his big brother and sisters' crafts when no one is looking.
...your 5 year old voluntarily asks if she may illustrate the 10 plagues of Egypt.
...you stay up into the wee hours of the morning to prepare co-op activities, and you love it!
...you’re always trying to work a good field trip into a family trip.
...you hear, "Mom, you're the best teacher in the world!" and you tuck that precious treasure into a little pocket of your heart to pull out whenever you hear the grumbles and moans of your little Israelites traveling through what seems like a vast desert.
My little group of pharoahs at our Friday afternoon co-op. They did a wonderful job using their fingerprints to paint jewels on their pectoral collars.
Mummies and sarcophaguses!
Scary animals of ancient Egypt. These became Victoria, Mary Liz, and Jacob's best friends as soon as they finished painting them.
Here's my co-op group of little artists painting and designing their serpent-headed throwing sticks like ancient Egyptian youngsters would have used to aim and throw.
We've had a great first month of school!
