Update on Pondering Curriuculum and Planning

The decision has been made to print the three weeks of Tapestry of Grace. I will then work on planning those three weeks over six weeks. That will take us from the first week of January to mid-February. By that time, if J keeps working like he has been, we should be in a financial place to purchase the curriculum for the first year.

Building a Life will also be continued in January. The kids are looking forward to it, but there are too many things to be excited about in December to focus on sit-down school too much. So the rest of December will be a lot of planning and organizing for me. I love that part of my teaching job.

Kristyn is working on chapter 11 of 13 in ACSI Math 1. She is pushing hard to get the book done. Cora-Jean is just not there yet. She is working on it but doesn't have the same drive as Kristyn to get it finished by January. I may have to push her a little.

Letter of the Week has been asked for. If I don't have the pages printed, Marrissa is asking where they are. So, more planning to get at least one activity a day planned for M and W for the month of January. The thing with that is that Kristyn and Cora wanna do what Marrissa and Wyatt are. We'll have to work it all in together somehow.

I've also decided that we will start Tapestry of Grace as soon as we can and get into a regular routine with it. I want to have the routine of school carry us through when it gets tough at the end of the pregnancy and when the baby first comes.

Planning planning planning. I think I will have a separate calendar / planner for each child. I will write that child's assignments and plans in that book / folder / planner. I don't know how else to plan for them. How do you plan and organize your homeschooling students?

Striving to learn and live God's purposes,