Well the school year came to a halt, and we were blessed with the ever increasing days of summer. I am pleased with the way my first year of homeschooling went. I have to admit, I spent most of the year terrified, over-researching and analyzing everything, but I probably would have done that if she was in school (
lol).
She is doing well according to our "
homeschool teacher" and she is very pleased as well.
It is summertime and I am in the throws if my catalogs and books, doing planning for next year.
For the most part, things will stay the same (classical), but I am toying with the idea of ditching the First Language Lessons for Primary Language Lessons by
Serl. The
repetition in
FLL was driving me crazy. I am also thinking of getting rid of
Shiller for Singapore, and sticking to the Montessori manipulates that I already have.
I will be adding cursive, and am trying to figure out a way to work in the Children of the World program by
Winterpromise that I think is so lovely, but never had the time to get to. Truthfully, I don't really know how I am going to work it in this year either. Oh yeah, and I am thinking of switching from living learning to R.E.A.L. or
NOEO science. I guess that is a lot of change actually~
ahhhhhhhh. But everything with Story of the World will stay the same.
I can see my beautiful friend in
Massachusetts falling over as she reads this. We both started out with the same curricula at the beginning of 1st grade.
There really is a method to my
madness, I just have not figured it out yet.
Here is a photo I am sharing of our backyard in summertime.
