I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
This week we begin our next cycle. I’ve begun using the word cycle to describe the sections of our homeschooling calendar. Since we school year round, taking a week or two off here and there, referring to the school year seemed incorrect to me. So I’m going with cycle to describe how we do things. Our first stretch of planning will take us through the next six weeks. After that we’ll take a week off to relax, but at the same time do a really fun unit study of Lucy/early humans, to include seeing Lucy’s fossilized skeleton in the (not) flesh at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Since it is summertime after all, for the next six weeks, we are only doing language arts lite, math/logic & history. After our Lucy unit study, we’ll add in science, Spanish and Latin at the beginning of the traditional school year. Athena and I are both beyond excited. She’s been pulling the new curriculum materials off the shelf and flipping through them in bubbly anticipation. I adore bearing witness to this unbridled passion for exploring and learning. It inspires me on an almost daily basis and makes it easier on the more challenging days of motherhood to keep things in focus.
This week we begin our next cycle. I’ve begun using the word cycle to describe the sections of our homeschooling calendar. Since we school year round, taking a week or two off here and there, referring to the school year seemed incorrect to me. So I’m going with cycle to describe how we do things. Our first stretch of planning will take us through the next six weeks. After that we’ll take a week off to relax, but at the same time do a really fun unit study of Lucy/early humans, to include seeing Lucy’s fossilized skeleton in the (not) flesh at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Since it is summertime after all, for the next six weeks, we are only doing language arts lite, math/logic & history. After our Lucy unit study, we’ll add in science, Spanish and Latin at the beginning of the traditional school year. Athena and I are both beyond excited. She’s been pulling the new curriculum materials off the shelf and flipping through them in bubbly anticipation. I adore bearing witness to this unbridled passion for exploring and learning. It inspires me on an almost daily basis and makes it easier on the more challenging days of motherhood to keep things in focus.