Today the kids and I sat down with all of our favorite learning resources anddecided on what we'd like to begin learning. What I realize is that there'sno shortage of stuff to learn, just a shortage of time and energy! I thinkwe came to a good balance, which I'll soon be posting Basically, I just decided to have a few things that we do daily, like copy poetry for handwriting and spelling practice, do some creative writing, keep a journal, do math drills or worksheets, reading lesson for Sweetheart and whatever else we happen to hit. We used a journal to make lists of what we'd like to accomplish this year, what we'd like to do each day, each week, each month,when we feel like it, when we're waiting for something or someone, and all of the topics we'd like to learn about. I also hope to go through the No-Cost, Low Cost Curriculum book for Edison, Monet and Sweetheart so that I can have an approach that feels comfortable. We're planning to subscribe to and use aleks.com to tutor in math. I will also go through my skills evaluation for the homeschool, part of The Weaver by Rebecca Avery, and see how we're doing. As far as "boxed" curricula, I really don't have any. We will probably use Saxon Math for the younger kids, Beautiful Feet history books, because I have them, we're thinking about having a Konos day once a week since I have the Konos book, and I want to go through both Five in a Row and The Prairie Primer with the younger kids.These are our plans, all very ambitious. This is more of a plan than I've done in the past couple of years because of our building process, and I'm sure it will change as we change, as our schedules change, as we find different materials, and as we burn out. But, hopefully, this will be our learning path.
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