Today we really dived into our new Fun-schooling Journals. Gotta say so far with helping me get the kiddos to review some. Things have gone smoothly ☺️ Can’t wait for tomorrow 😏 This along with a few more items I will be using to supplement for the rest of the year.
How I originally started teaching my kiddos was very eclectic. A lot of Unit Studies and child lead curriculum. For the 2021-2022 school year I went the more traditional route. Which you can read about in an earlier post. It worked for the first several months, but now unfortunately has run out of steam.
We are going to change things up and start fresh.
We have decided to go with Wild Math, Fun-schooling Journals(Core Journals, Math, Language Arts and and an elective journal) and Build Your Library (BYL) along with History Quest and R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey (RSO) for our new learning material.
It’s goes along line of how I first started homeschooling them. Which is more of a Charlotte Mason/Unschooling Secular way of homeschooling I used, which was more hands-on and I myself even enjoyed it. I don’t know why I decided to change it! WHAT WAS I THINKING?!
The beginning of 2021-2022 school year I decided to go a traditional route using Easy Peasy All-In-One Homeschool as our main curriculum along with other workbooks I thought they might learn a little more with. I was right, but also wrong at the same time.
The reason for this big change is… My kiddos have recently told me the curriculum is too boring and too easy. It’s basically not a good fit. Especially if they they’re not getting any benefits from it.
So I’m doing a major overhaul of our curriculum and will be reverting back to how I started since they enjoyed(so did I) and seemed to learn better and even more that way.
This is a cute little series that brings to life old morals and so much more. Today, we dived into The Golden Rule. Going over the pdf workbook the kiddos today had to make up a team chant. This is what they came up with…
We are the Lava Kids,
Using our smarts to stay strong,
Homeschooling is our way,
Learning, laughing and playing all day long.
The Tuttle Twins books are definitely worth it. They teach a wide variety of lessons that most don’t get in school nowadays
It’s a life long process that doesn’t end just because schooling does. Knowledge is found everywhere and it is your choice to learn or remain ignorant. Hopefully with luck, I can instill the love of learning for these kiddos, so they will continue to grasp and choose to expand their learning capabilities long after their schooling years are complete.
As I sit here and write this I’m nervous/excited to get started. I’m hoping with new curriculum we can fill in the gaps that they so desperately need and move on. Wish me luck…
Not only do I gain precious moments teaching my four rambunctious nephews. I also encourage their growth and progress as they learn. Praise their triumphs and get to spend one on one quality time working with whatever their struggling with.
As long as their making progress and grasping what they need. Time is unnecessarily apart of the equation. Every child will learn at their pace. No need to rush it or force it.
Well the 2020-2021 school year is coming to a close. The boys have made great improvements in some areas and still need to work in others. They have made progress and that’s what matters! Today they were given their awards. It’s the end for now, but we’ll will be starting back up for next school year on July 6, 2021
Well I’ve narrowed down my curriculum choices. This coming school year we will be using a combination of School Zone, Carson-Dellosa, Story of the World, and Easy Peasy All in One Homeschool for different subjects.
We tried 180 Days curriculum for math this last go around and it just didn’t work out for the boys. Ended up every two weeks buying unit studies and downloading curriculum from TpT, Moby Max, Pinterest and random homeschooling websites, which I’ll still be using for certain assignments and special projects. I think it’s time to buckle down and try a more traditional route.
Regardless this time around I will have back up material in case something doesn’t work out. Now these are just the workbooks and some books. I’m still in the process of gather more books and additional material. My Amazon cart is already filled for next purchase 🤦🏻♀️☺️ Can’t wait for July!😍
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.
