It's Never Too Early ...
Each year at the end of December I start our school planning for the next year. Part of that is taking the temperature of our homeschool thus far and deciding what to tweak in January, but I also look ahead to the fall. Now that we are knee deep in our grade 5 Waldorf year (we use the grade 5 story curriculum ~ I don't bother to keep track of what "grade" we are in for skills) and very happy to be back to using Waldorf methods I decided to take a look at what Live Education offers for grade 6, and wow, does it seem to be right up J-Baby's alley! Astronomy, Physics, Mineralogy, The Middle Ages, Ancient Greek and Roman History, and more Geometry? Sign us up! Or rather, I'll be saving my pennies for the books.
For the near term, I have our books for our first North American Geography block checked out from the library and have placed them on hold with T-Guy's account so we can have them through the end of January. I ordered the book that we need for February as it wasn't available from our city library or the county system.
J-Baby is excited to be starting lesson work again after our light month and holiday break. He is just old enough now to be worrying that he is perhaps a bit behind other kids when it comes to some of his skills, but talking him through it he realized that he is far ahead in many areas, especially science and history, and he really understands the why of things rather than just the what. The child is a deep thinker.
T-Guy, on the other hand, lives so much in the moment that he hasn't mentioned starting our lessons again. Right now his life revolves around playing with his new toys and trying to talk Papa (who is home all week) into playing Wii, or at the very least letting him and J-Baby play Wii. He's also thinking about his birthday which is in just a couple of weeks, and baseball, which starts gearing up in January with a two day camp, evaluations, and catching school (that is still a surprise); perhaps that is why he isn't thinking about school work.
As for me, I still have to fine tune our schedule for January. We are going to switch our "lite" day to Mondays, which seems counter-intuitive but we always struggle to get back in the groove on Mondays anyway, and that is when most of the homeschool group is able to meet. So we will do skills work in the morning, go to park day, then to the library, and finally do any necessary errands (health food store and banking).
For the near term, I have our books for our first North American Geography block checked out from the library and have placed them on hold with T-Guy's account so we can have them through the end of January. I ordered the book that we need for February as it wasn't available from our city library or the county system.
J-Baby is excited to be starting lesson work again after our light month and holiday break. He is just old enough now to be worrying that he is perhaps a bit behind other kids when it comes to some of his skills, but talking him through it he realized that he is far ahead in many areas, especially science and history, and he really understands the why of things rather than just the what. The child is a deep thinker.
T-Guy, on the other hand, lives so much in the moment that he hasn't mentioned starting our lessons again. Right now his life revolves around playing with his new toys and trying to talk Papa (who is home all week) into playing Wii, or at the very least letting him and J-Baby play Wii. He's also thinking about his birthday which is in just a couple of weeks, and baseball, which starts gearing up in January with a two day camp, evaluations, and catching school (that is still a surprise); perhaps that is why he isn't thinking about school work.
As for me, I still have to fine tune our schedule for January. We are going to switch our "lite" day to Mondays, which seems counter-intuitive but we always struggle to get back in the groove on Mondays anyway, and that is when most of the homeschool group is able to meet. So we will do skills work in the morning, go to park day, then to the library, and finally do any necessary errands (health food store and banking).
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