D-Term

D-Term has officially begun in our house. Some institutions have J-Term in January where you can take a month-long intensive class between semesters. It's kind of the same idea but we do it homeschool style. Yesterday, D-term officially began. Our first lesson was in Logistics Management. It involved 4 kids in the crawl space figuring out how to get all of the Holiday decorations out without breaking anything, missing anything or bonking any heads on the low ceiling. From there, it turned into how to get everything upstairs, again unbroken, and distributed to the rooms in which they will be unpacked. The third portion involves actually unpacking the boxes and distributing the decorations around the house while the children bounce up and down asking repeatedly "when can we do the tree? When can we do the tree? When can we do the tree?" The evening ended with cultural studies in our first viewing of the "classic" Holiday film "ELF". And there was popcorn. Other classes planned for this D-term include: Gingerbread Baking 101 followed by Gingerbread House Assembly which is a 200 level class involving royal icing and lots of candy; Gift Making - part of the Art and Chemistry departments; Gift Bag Sewing and Tag Making; Popcorn and Cranberry stringing; Ornament Making; Holiday Light Viewing; and How to Enjoy your Holidays without going Crazy! This last class mainly involves letting go of all non-essential duties (such as math) and focusing on making memories with your kids. That's my favorite class of D-term.

Happy Holidays!