...as if it weren't already!!  I'll just be switching gears, is all.  DS10 comes "home" at the end of the month.  I found a unit study on Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) and we're going to start with that.  He LOVES him and was so sad when he died.  I do need to find a math program that works for us, and expect I'll have to experiment a bit before we find the right one, but that's the big area he has struggled with in the classroom.  They teach it a certain way and only that way, and it just doesn't click in his head.  I've gone over stuff with him and explained it differently, and then and only then will it make sense.  I don't think math "theory" has much value anyway; knowing how to balance a checkbook and count out the correct change does!!

NH is a pretty easy state to home school in, but none the less I've got to go in and sort out the file drawers and make a place to keep all our work.  I found a planner the other week while I was packing up some stuff off my bookshelves.  That'll come in handy.  I'm getting so excited to be doing this again!  It's one thing to "school" the young one (DS5) but it's still mostly fun and games with him.  I'm not an advocate of pushing formal schooling on them too young (thank you Mr. and Mrs. Moore!).  He wants to learn to read very badly, though, so I may start putting some emphasis on letter sounds and early phonics.  If he picks it up well, we'll keep going.  Won't know if he's ready until we try!  His two older brothers are both strong readers so who knows.