I don’t have any pictures to show, but I sure have been busy! I finally sat down with mountains of books that we will be using for school this coming school year.
With this being our first year homeschooling (and not exclusively using one curriculum, though many of our things are coming from the same company this year), I wasn’t quite sure how I wanted to plan it all out.
I tried to sit down with all the books (which were, by the way, covering our dining room table) and my lesson plan book, but then I kept thinking, “I can’t really put in too many plans, because if we don’t get to something one day, I have to change it all.”
So, then I grabbed a notebook and broke it up into subjects. I then planned out (or am planning) what we will do in each subject during the school year.
So far, I have done spelling, writing/grammar, reading (well — somewhat, but I knew I could spend days on it, and I wanted to keep working through other things first, after having just a little bit written down), and handwriting. Man, oh man, do my kids need to work on handwriting! They apparently don’t work on it in school, and it shows. (My oldest brought his handwriting book home from school this year and they had only done three pages of it! But, I understand that because they have to worry about standardized tests, etc, handwriting isn’t high on their priority list.)
I am currently working on (but taking a short break) math plans. Then, I will work on science, social studies, and “extras.” Extras includes religion (since we are using a Catholic curriculum, there is religion woven into many of the subjects, so this includes some extra faith activities we will do — oh, and then the boys will still be attending our parish’s CCD program), art, music, P.E., chores, and anything else that might come up.
My table is already starting to look better, since I have been moving books off the table as I plan for that subject. And, I’m feeling more confident about our school year as I actually sit down to truly map it out on paper.
I could try to continue in more depth on this, but I think it would just be to put off going back to work on it some more. Off to math planning I go…
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