Focusing on your strength and CC

We spent a good part of our day getting ready for J' up coming dance recital - dress rehearsal and last minute shopping for hair accessories and eye makeup. J really dislike wearing any make-up. She is more natural is best and comfort is Queen and let's not fuss kind of a girl. But she might be the only girl I know who don't like jeans. She doesn't care much for the material that jeans are made of. She prefers sport pants. Anyway, I didn't get a chance to take any good pictures of the made-up J. :( Hopefully, I will at the recital.


J was happy to take off her eye make up and be back to her natural self. (lipstick was long gone.)

For dance class this past year, she took tap/jazz and was one of the youngest student in the class. She did a great job and worked hard and enjoyed the class. But next year, she won't be taking any dance class and I am kind of sad about that. But the truth is, dance is not J's passion. So in remembering a talk I heard at the Florida HS conference: focusing on your strength (and passion), I decide to discontinue dance class for J.

This is J's passion - to be a teacher and teach.

So in place of dance class, we tentatively plan on trying Classical Conversations which will be for 1/ 2 day (3 hours)/ week. I will make the final decision after attending CC's 3 day practicum for parents.

I told J it will involve quite a bit of memorization and she say she doesn't mind and really want to do it. This will also give me a chance to observe J in a classroom setting as parents are asked to stay in the room. I'm thinking this will also give J some ideas on how a "teacher" teaches in a classroom. I'm sure I will see J teaching some of the stuff to Prime. CC also have a 'presentation' component each week where students J's age will be presenting for 2-3 minutes each week. Presentation skills are very important for teachers. I remember being so scared for my public speaking class.

Prime doesn't want to go to CC and secretly I'm glad as I think he is still a little young.

For the most part, I will still use a Waldorf-ish curriculum for main lessons but is open to trying new things. I hope CC it will open new doors for us and help me find other local moms and children who use the same homeschooling material as my children.