Finally...

Finally got my curriculum laid out for my kindergartner. You would think that after homeschooling 4 other children this would be easy...but it wasn't. I was having trouble with deciding how to proceed. He likes workbooks so I decided to use the BJUP Beginnings program (as I did with at least 2 of my other children) but something just wasn't clicking. I guess it was just too canned. I will still use what I can from that program but I am going to "Charlotte Masonize" it :-) I got the schedule from Shining Time Academy's website, merged in information from Parkview Christian School's kindergarten program, then sprinkled in "A Formidable List of Attainments for a Child of Six" curriculum outline from Charlotte Mason and added a dab of Diane Lopez'reccomendations. I really wish I could write my own curriculum because after all these years I am never satisfied and wind up making my own recipe. The only curriculum that comes really, really close is Heart of Wisdom, but they only have history and science units. :-)

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I will use Five In A Row on the last week of every month.

First 2 weeks of school

We have completed our first two weeks of school. I think things are going pretty smoothly, but I am still tweaking our schedule. The children are involved in more "outside" activities than last year, so we have to be very diligent to get our lessons in and get all the papers graded.

Boy -- Homeschool Tracker is such an awesome software. The update comes out on Monday and I can't wait to get it. When you are homeschooling 4 children a software like this is a boon. Check them out at Homeschool Tracker.

Curriculum

Finally placed my orders for books. Hopefully I will get them next week. I want to get at least 2 weeks of lesson plans in the can. I want to get back to the Charlotte Mason way of thinking. Kind of left when my oldest daughter entered high school and we had all the recordkeeping to do. She's graduated and starts college next week. CM is an excellent way to do all grades...guess I panicked.

Curriculum planning

So just got back from another "mini" vacation. Took us 6 long hours to get to our destination when it usually takes 3.5 to 4 hours. But...I got plenty of work done pertaining to our new school year. I made out weekly schedules for 4 children (by hand)and now it needs to go into this homeschool organization software I use called Home School Tracker. This is an awesome product. The link to their site is somewhere under my homeschool links.

My first real blog in a while

Okay...so this is my first blog after signing and setting up blogger on my website. Took longer than I would have liked.
I have been doing research for the next school year. My oldest daughter graduated from our homeschool and it really feels strange not planning what she will be doing for the next year.

My youngest son will be starting kindergarten and I have been trying to find a CM based curriculum for him to use. Checked out Ambleside Online and they had some interesting pointers...one being to read CM's thoughts on the subject :-) Thankfully there was also a link for someone who posted her CM kindergarten plans on their website Shining Time Academy I am so glad I found this site and I will probably bring her plans into the mix of what we will do along with maybe Five In A Row. But we'll see. Which brings me to why I decided to start blogging again. This lady has a great blog and it inspired me Shining Time Academy Blog. So this is where I am. I hope I can keep blogging. Feels kinda good.