I’m working on planning next year’s curriculum. Confession time, I’m almost ALWAYS planning next year’s curriculum. Maybe I should spend more time focusing on THIS year’s? David is in high school now. I worried and fretted about it for years ahead of time. But actually, it’s been a pretty good year. Maybe I shouldn’t have …
It’s time to make decisions about curriculum again, and the first step is evaluation. I created this list of questions to ask my children a couple of years ago. I didn’t use the survey last year, but will be using it again for this school year. I’ve also created a simple, free, printable questionnaire for you! …
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It’s that time of year again. For a curriculum junkie like me, it’s one of my favorites. All the new curriculum catalogs arrive! I can look and think and imagine what our homeschool is going to look like next year. I can make a giant list of everything I would love to have for each …
So once again, I missed the 2nd week of Blogging through the Alphabet. But I’m not going to let that stop me. I’m going to bend the rules a bit and do 2 letters in one post so I can catch up. First, B is for Books. My husband and I share a common weakness. It’s …
Here I go on a brand new meme. I love to read other people’s alphabet blogging posts so why not join in? (Other than the small problem that the last time I tried I think I made only 1 or 2 posts…) But when I said A is for Alphabet, I didn’t mean Blogging through …
Doug, one of my husband’s roommates in college, when he was asked how his day went would often respond, “It was tough, but it was good.” We used to chuckle at his response, but really there’s a lot of truth to be found in his attitude. I chose a word for this year: JOY I …
Since my last post was the post where I admit I was wrong, maybe this one should be the post where I admit I am late! I hope I’m not the only one that has let something go far too long. I’m really good with deadlines. But when there isn’t an exact deadline, then sometimes …
Hopefully that got your attention. And maybe it was a bit strong, but I’ve learned something. I’ve always been a big believer in choosing math curricula that focus on understanding rather than rote learning. Here’s my post from last year’s Virtual Curriculum Fair: Thinking Mathematically: How I Choose Math Curriculum And while I don’t have …
I’m participating in the Virtual Curriculum Fair at Homeschool Heart and Mind again this year because I can’t get enough curriculum talk! This is our 10th year of homeschooling and during that time we’ve used a lot of different resources for language arts. Some I’ve used with more than one child, other things have been …
If you read blogs, I’m sure you’ve seen them. The posts where people choose one word to represent their yearly theme. I’ve always thought those were a neat idea, but the perfectionist in me has trouble picking just one word. How can one word stand for everything I want to do? As I think back …
