Back from the road trip...!

We're back from the road and struggling to get into a groove with homeschooling with the textbooks again. There has to be balance. As nice as it was to explore the states, learn about and record what we spy in nature, math and grammar still have to get done. Math in the form of estimating and computing mileage didn't exactly get done. But we had that one day's worth of angles. So the last two days have felt long as we try to get into the least favorite subject textbooks.
Today we broke it up by having a blue jello war that reenacted the Romans invading the Celts in Britain. Two of the boys came as Romans with really authentic looking costumes and things. We got together with two other families and cooked over an open pit. We haven't really studied the boy war stuff in our house though so I couldn't tell you what they were. We've studied different emperors and how the people lived at home and general things about Rome and the fall of Rome. Later in the month we'll have an official Roman Feast with 5 other families.
Now it's back to the math and grammar books before going off to ballet. We had a school meeting and decided that starting NEXT week, we're going to do things differently. Instead of cramming so much into each day, we're going to do one main subject per day (plus short daily practices and penmanship). So for example, a week's worth of math in a day....with math games in between "assignments". I'm skeptical because I can just envision one assignment taking the whole day. But if that happens, math will just be tacked on as "homework" every evening the rest of the week until it's done. At least one of the kids loves her math book this year. In fact, she loves everything with school this year. Phew.