I’m going to continue organizing and adding things here over the next few weeks. Going to try and get the Vintage Library Collection at least started beyond what I already have. Then over the next month or two as I put together next year’s curriculum I will be updating as I finalize each kiddos individual lessons, family subjects and our schedule. So stay tuned…
Well this is our last week for the 2022-2023 homeschool year. Five whole days left! Then it will be summer break until July 10th when we once again begin. It seems like such a long time ago when we first started this journey, and now it seems to be just a blink of an eye some days.
I’ve been stressing myself out over next year’s curriculum and have come to the conclusion. That I need to branch out and take control by creating what my kiddos need instead of trying to bend curriculum schedules and materials for the boys. So in June I am doing a full overhaul of the curriculum and schedule.
Not only will I be rearranging our curriculum, well the only curriculum technically being used for next year will be for language arts and math. For the rest of the subjects, I will be using a mixture of old or vintage educational books along with newer up to date books as well to give the boys more well rounded lessons. I’ve done a lot of research working all this out. One thing I plan on implementing more of is the Charlotte Mason method of notebooking. We did it for a short time about a year ago. I’m hoping this coming year will be different as we use it for more than one subject.
Anyways look forward to the next post about what I will be using and some alternatives I have for backup.
Ugh… Planning! There are roughly 228 days excluding weekends and holidays between July 10, 2023 and June 7, 2024. Minus the holidays we take off for which gives us about 210 to 215 days depending. Which gives me leeway to make 40 to 44 weeks of lessons. So that means I need to roughly print out about 30 double sided sheets of my week planner and 120 double sided of my day planner. Printing extra for wiggle room if needed. I don’t do monthly or yearly because that makes it way too complicated for 4 schedules. I’m going to be busy tomorrow 😏
Ok got everything minus about 25 books I just need to mesh things together. I decided to create a more well round language arts and math curriculum by piecing a mixture of modern secular and late 19th century/early 20th century (modernized) text and living books. The same will be going for literature, poetry, art, geography, history, government, science and health. I’m also creating a speech class for the kiddos to help them with their pronunciation of words and letters. All I need to do is finish creating my lesson plan 🥴
The reason I’m going this route is simple. The newer curriculum likes bounce around or loop instead of focusing on mastering the skills. So I found some wonderful old education books for elementary through highschool when the education was rigorous and straight to the point. Later, I will update on how I piece everything together and give links to material if anyone is interested.
Thank you Sherry, Marissa, and Emily for all your help and direction.
Curriculum nightmare! Have you ever looked at how much curriculum is out there? It’s even harder to sift through to find a secular curriculum.
Thought I had everything figured out 😂 Wrong! Have to make a few changes since certain curriculum doesn’t coincide with the main curriculum I will be teaching 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ Certain curriculum picks were either to advanced or I had already covered it this year. So it’s been back to the drawing board 😩
I’m still sticking with BYL(Build Your Library) and some Fun-schooling Journals (some additional outdoor and extra curricular curriculum). I’m not going to do the TGTB(The Good and The Beautiful) for math or language arts (at least not right now) 😩 What I will be doing is adding TL(Torchlight) and Beowulf Grammar (not completely sure on the Beowulf Grammar or use something else) to expand on their language arts for spelling and grammar. So far I’m excited with my picks and so are the kiddos!
As for math, I’m still planning on getting WM(Wild Math) for their outdoor curriculum. Then the kiddos told me they would like to continue with EP Math(Easy Peasy All in One Homeschool) 🙄 I on the other hand, is thinking of using IXL Math for when the weather is not cooperating. So I’m undecided there so far 🤷🏻♀️😅
Scooter, step-mom asked is if my teacher brain ever stops for a moment 🤣 Apparently it’s a side effect of homeschooling that my brain doesn’t shut down so.
Six more wonderful challenging days to go! Then planning for next school year… We are planning to school from July 2021 to May 2022 for next school year. Got their new curriculum workbooks, planner, waiting for their new desks, my new dry erase board, some additional workbooks and books. I have to add a few things and get more of a few items because my eldest would like to learn Spanish, my next kiddo wants to learn cursive, the second youngest would like to learn more math, and my youngest wants more art projects. It’s going to be interesting to plan how next school year will look like. All that matters is they’re learning, understanding, and reaching for their dreams.
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