Tag: Curriculum

Curriculum, Homeschool, My Thoughts, Planning Next Year

Gathering Curriculum

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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, Homeschool, My Thoughts

Late Night Thinking

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Let’s just say my homeschool brain is working overtime. Like I have everything lined up, I’m still tweaking it. Why? Because I’m not sure it’s going to be a good fit or unsure if it will work for the kiddos. Gah! I’m going crazy here😅 No seriously 😒 Ok, so I know I said I had everything worked out. Here’s my thing… I found some new curriculum so I’m researching and now questioning whether this would be a better fit. I don’t know maybe I’ll just stick with what I have planned and use these as back ups. There are so many possibilities! Better yet I just tested the kiddos to see what level I could put them in with what I had planned. Someone tell the curriculum fairies to quit dangling new sources of curricula for me to go crazy. Anyways, I’ll probably update sometime around June if not before for my final picks for the 2023/2024 homeschool year’s curriculum. I might even break it down into levels not sure yet 🤷🏻‍♀️

Curriculum, Homeschool, My Thoughts

People and Their Opinions… Part Two

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Today I will be printing off new material for three of my kiddos 🙂 Here’s the rundown on how this occurred…

This past week my kiddos admitted they overheard conversations of other adults saying they need to get back into public school. So two of them decided they wanted to return to school. Not because they really wanted to, but because they thought other people’s opinions mattered. They thought longer hours of education would help them catch up and close the gap at where they’re supposed to be at. Instead of taking the time to master the material at their pace and understanding.

So we’ve been discussing this all week and not just with the two that thought this. I have also discovered that another kiddo along with the other two would like to move up a level because it was becoming too easy. I don’t have a problem with it at all. That’s the whole point of homeschooling! To meet the kiddos where they’re at and encourage them to learn more and set them up for their career and life.

I’m so glad my kiddos can come to me and express their opinions and open discussions. So thanks for giving my kiddos the initiative to approach me with the conversation so we can level up and continue to move forward with our homeschool journey and life.