Before you know it the new year will be here and for us that means a shift from Greece to Rome in our history studies.  So I have been looking over our books and resources as well as inspiration from other mom's on treating our homeschool as a serious business.  And here are our plans for the new year.

We will start our day with jump start activities.  Kumon workbooks for both girls and penmanship will get us started working and having fun.

Then we will move into memory time.  This is where we will review phonograms, do grammar definitions and other information.

Next, we will have seatwork time for my oldest.  Starting with SWR or FLL/copywork, then Rightstart math, Greek and finishing off with Piano practice.  At some point we will add Prima Latina into the mix here.

Then we will have read aloud time with Story of the World or Story of the Pilgrims and looking at the topic of the day in the Earlybird science books and then finishing off our day with hands-on history, science and/or art projects.

It should take us from 1 and a half  to 3 hours to complete our day. I think that with the hands-on activities and the Kumon books that we will have a lot more fun but we will also get the serious work done in a timely fashion as well.

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