Oh for the days of just looking for a phonics curriculum or even learning basic math facts! This phase is so overwhelming and usually my own ADD tendencies get the best of me. So while I am trying to get ourselves more organized and with a plan or planner that works for more than a month! So I searched for "organizing my homeschool" in Google and came up with more links that I can possibly process in a week. However, I did go thru and find some helpful examples of what others are doing (being a visual kind of girl). I found a great thread on how secular homeschoolers organize which is important to me. When searching for ideas on organizing, I found that most of them are from Christian homeschoolers, so just keep that in mind (you can, like I do, just omit what doesn't fit with your life style).
More this year than ever, I have to find something that fits me, and our family to organize not only homeschooling, but work, co-op classes, practices, volunteering and other things that we are involved in for this coming year. The main reason for this determination to make it work for us THIS year, is we are going to be "hopefully" selling our house. Yea right in this market right? But that is what is driving my desire to make this work, because I need to have a schedule organized (however loosely) so that we can still accomplish our school work even with interruptions.
So what is your plan? Do you have one? COME ON share it!!
Mandy in TN from T4L
ReplyDeleteI have not been joyous about my 3rd graders education this year. I think when we wrap up our Classical Conversations tutorial we are going to do The 8-10 Concept 3: Similarities and Differences unit from Moving Beyond the Page. This fall he read through a beginner Bible that he has read before, but this fall he will be reading My Little Lore of Light and learning Islamic religious stories. This has me a little excited about this spring.
We will also continue to use T4L this spring. I will evaluate this summer and determine if we will continue with it in the fall. Next fall I know we will be studying the Eastern Hemisphere and that has me really excited. Doodle will be reading Ramayana: Divine Loophole as we learn more about Hinduism.
This year we are winging it in that I didn't write up any sort of schedule. I am not sure how I will organize our studies next year.