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| My newly organized homeschool closet with each student dedicated a shelf. |
In Plan Your Year by Pam Barnhill of Everyday Snapshots, I found that sound board on which to bounce my ideas thanks to the great many pages she designed. I also found myself getting specific on my long-term goals for our homeschool. Finally, sitting down to create a mission statement that quantified our family’s priorities was a huge accomplishment. My husband, Jeff, and I were close in our wants, desires, and point of view which was a nice realization as well. Pam’s templates were wonderful tools to inspire some change to our schedule; the visualization assisted my brain into seeing how important a routine is balanced with a time based schedule.
A change is coming this way for our little homeschool; Bella is wanting to start Kindergarten, so that leaves me with a first grader and a kindergartener. Not to mention a crazy toddler who loves to rip, shred, and pulverize paper of all varieties and a new baby debuting in September! We might be needing all that flexibility for a steep learning curve headed our way.
Back in March, I talked about focusing on solidifying skills and getting back to scholé, here is a list of our current picks for aiding in our learning: |
| Leo's daily reading practice basket. Our goal is to get up to 30 minutes a day. |
Leo’s lovely list:
Core Subjects (math, reading, writing, etc.):
v Saxon 1
v Kumon Workbooks for added practice on Fridays if needed (we are using the first trimester to focus on addition drilling)
v All About Spelling Level 1 (this is a re-start for us)
v All About Reading Readers Lvl. 1 (books 1-3) and Set 2/sight words of the BOB books with worksheets for both here (he really enjoyed completing set 1 last year and specifically asked we do more); there are other readers like these from Neumann Press that I will be adding to the basket
v copy work from Aesop’s Fables by Classical Copy work
v story sequencing practice from PAL (IEW's program)
v Classical Catholic Memory Alpha Year (Co-op classes as well twice a month)
Bella’s bountiful list:
Core Subjects:
v Saxon K
v Kumon workbooks for extra practice if needed
v Classical Catholic Memory Alpha Year (Co-op classes as well twice a month)
Loop Topics Include: art, science, literature units based off of Five in a Row, religion, music, history, and poetry. I am hoping to make our loop topics family based, so that everyone including my husband can join us.
'Tis the season for planning posts, so stay tuned!