It’s starting again. Our homeschool, that is! We’ve had a month off, and as of this Monday the 3rd, we are beginning again. I love taking an entire month off. It gives me such a great time to recharge just by NOT thinking about school! Doing school in trimesters with a month
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As always, I make mid-course corrections. Currently I am seeing things standing out at me that don’t make me overly happy, but that’s the way it goes. We have homeschooled long enough to know that one curriculum isn’t the be-all, end-all, and that nothing is one size FITS all, either. Buying and selling curriculum
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We started school on Wednesday. I planned to start back up on Tuesday, but it just… didn’t …. happen. We were no where NEAR ready! Wednesday wasn’t a whole lot better, but we did do math (both) and phonics (D2).
Thursday, I had the boys read aloud to me. I
Continue reading Phonics and Spelling and Reading Oh My
I’m not sure if you have to be a curriculum junkie in order to be a homeschooler, but I do know that when you start teaching your children at home, you need resources. I have received nearly every home education-geared catalog out there. Oh I’m sure there are some I haven’t had, but I have had most at one time or other.
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Always a couple of months before we finish school, my mind begins to wander… into the next school year. I don’t know WHY I do it so early, but I always do. Late spring finds me perusing curriculum catalogs and doing online research. It’s a weird hobby, I know, but it’s one that always kicks in at the same time each year.
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