Right now my house is quiet. Clean. There is beautiful Christmas music playing in the background and the only light is the dim sun shining through the clouds outside. The
house smells rich and warm from the stew simmering on the stove. It is a beautiful time.
In six minutes I will leave to get the boys from the bus. Today is there last full day of school as tomorrow they only go in for the morning to have a Christmas party. So anyways that made today was my last day of "freedom".
So what Did I do?? Well NOTHING of course! I watched "Timepiece" and cried like a baby, I ran to the commissary and bought water, bbq and pineapple for our Ham this sunday...I started dinner...and I read..I read nothing very exciting only homeschool catalogs. Now I know what your thinking..how can she be looking at next years curriculum when she hasn't even started this years...but It was always my policy to purchase the next years homeschool items in February to give them a chance to come in and for me to examine them enough to know if they would work for our family so as to be certain to be up and ready to go when September rolls around. So I spent my day looking at curriculum and making decisions for next year...this year is sorted and some of it will carry over but next year needs to be far meatier! My focus for this next term is to fill in the gaps my children have from being in a UK school. Not that UK schools are better or worse but they teach things very differently and therefore in order for me to teach them I will have to fill in the missing pieces. Next year I want to concentrate on learning rather than retraining and filling gaps so I am researching...Now of course this isn't in stone but here is what I am thinking of...
Keep working on Ambleside year 1 at a relaxed pace. Keep working on the Math Mammoth and Primary Language lessons but add in Winters Promise "Children Around the World" with Otter's Science. So there you have it..very little change just some more meat and potatoes!
So anyways..the quiet is gone, the boys are home and I am off to feed and bathe them before a night at the movies with DH...
Like I said in the beginning very little to report.
In six minutes I will leave to get the boys from the bus. Today is there last full day of school as tomorrow they only go in for the morning to have a Christmas party. So anyways that made today was my last day of "freedom".
So what Did I do?? Well NOTHING of course! I watched "Timepiece" and cried like a baby, I ran to the commissary and bought water, bbq and pineapple for our Ham this sunday...I started dinner...and I read..I read nothing very exciting only homeschool catalogs. Now I know what your thinking..how can she be looking at next years curriculum when she hasn't even started this years...but It was always my policy to purchase the next years homeschool items in February to give them a chance to come in and for me to examine them enough to know if they would work for our family so as to be certain to be up and ready to go when September rolls around. So I spent my day looking at curriculum and making decisions for next year...this year is sorted and some of it will carry over but next year needs to be far meatier! My focus for this next term is to fill in the gaps my children have from being in a UK school. Not that UK schools are better or worse but they teach things very differently and therefore in order for me to teach them I will have to fill in the missing pieces. Next year I want to concentrate on learning rather than retraining and filling gaps so I am researching...Now of course this isn't in stone but here is what I am thinking of...
Keep working on Ambleside year 1 at a relaxed pace. Keep working on the Math Mammoth and Primary Language lessons but add in Winters Promise "Children Around the World" with Otter's Science. So there you have it..very little change just some more meat and potatoes!
So anyways..the quiet is gone, the boys are home and I am off to feed and bathe them before a night at the movies with DH...
Like I said in the beginning very little to report.
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