A new homeschooling year is about to begin, and once again, I seem to be behind on scheduling and deciding what we will be doing. I started a couple months ago by talking to a friend of mine, but as soon as I start to pull things out to look them over , I get "distracted" and find myself somewhere else not even close to where I started. I know I am easily distracted so it takes an extra effort to get me back on track, which is, hopefully, what I will try to accomplish over the next week or so. Since I am not a very good schedule person, I have to try harder to be better, but it just eludes me most of the time.
One of the bigger decisions I will be making this year, is what time will I start. I have found that there are no hard fast rules for this, which means if you want to start in the morning great, if you would rather start in the afternoon, that's okay also. I'm pretty sure we will start sometime in the morning, because by the time afternoon rolls around, no one really wants to do anything anyway. Well, actually, they don't really seem to want to do anything at anytime, but that is besides the point, because they ARE going to do something if I have to tie them to the chairs :)
This is how our typical morning goes:
Me: Time to get up kids, we have chores and things to get done!
15 minutes later...
Me: Come on kids, it REALLY is time to get out of bed, I know its cold, but we still have things to get done today...
15 minutes later.....
Me: Come on guys, don't make me come in there again....
15 minutes later.....
Me: That is it!!! I'm bringing in the water gun if you guys don't get out of bed right now!!!!!!
15 minutes later....
And it goes on and on for about an hour or so...
I am thinking I may need to find another way to get them up...
As I said before, I had a couple discussions with a friend about it, and she gave me some good ideas for my homeschool plan. The first thing I did was, ask the kids what they would like to learn about this year. BIG MISTAKE! My children of course said "OH man, we have to have school this year???" To which I replied, YES, whether you like it or not! After several minutes of debating this point they all concluded that they would like to learn a foreign language. I found a really cool FREE online language course that they could all do, however they all managed to pick different languages, go figure. We will just have to wait and see how that one goes.
Here is the link for the free online language course. They have French, Italian, German and Spanish. BBC Steps Languages
Well, that's about it really, we have Bible, Chemistry, American History, Math, and Geography all planned, and I use that term loosely, with a little bit of a twist to each one, since I recently discovered these things called "Lap Books". I have all the materials for these, so they will definitely be in the mix this year, and I think the kids will like doing them.
And here is some information on Lap Books: Lap Book Information
There were over 450,000 hits on Google for Lap Books, I just picked one.
So this is my home-school schedule, subject to change without a moments notice, because I am, after all, a women:)
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