I have two weeks to get the year together. For me, the more I do now, the easier it will be. I can say I can do it as I go, but I know me and it won't happen. I never seem to get he time to sit down and evaluate how we're doing and plan the next month. So, I've been to the copy store, and I've been working on an overview for each kid. Tomorrow, I'll be having a meeting with each of the older ones to go over their goals for the year and help them take ownership of the things they need to learn this year. 

It helps that I have three pairs, basically, who do a lot of the same things.  I've decided to try Easy Grammar 4th and 5th with both Morgan (who is 5th grade) and Sidney (who is third). I think it should go fine. I've copied worksheets for the preposition unit as well as capitalization and punctuation. We'll get through those slowly and go from there.

Reid and Ryan will be doing pretty much everything together.  Hopefully Reid will not be too frustrated. Ryan usually answers before him.

Katey and Alicia will be doing Literary Lessons From Lord of the Rings. It will be our literature for the entire year. That was tough to get my mind around for a while, even though I know it's plenty to keep us busy. But since we do history and literature together chronologically, I had a list of Modern period books for them to read this year. It's okay, though. We will thoroughly enjoy this study and maybe we'll just read the modern books next year and do geography instead of going back to Ancients. I don't think it'll hurt anybody.  Katey needs to finish her government and economics anyway and she could spend her senior year finishing up a lot of things.

I'll keep posting as the planning goes on this week.

I still need to explain the "Potter problem". Hmmm. . another day. Now, I'm going to read The Hobbit aloud. It's our current family reading. It's too hot to be outside so we decided to go ahead and start. We usually only do it in winter. With exceptions, and I always read to the little ones. We're still reading Wind in the Willows during the day. I just love that book. It's such a wonderful picture of friendship.

There is a goat in my house. I must go discourage that. Tata.

Happy reading.

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Posted by Rainbogirl

You sound so put together, dear marmee!
Thank you for updating. And for leaving me a comment.
I should like to see you all very much very soon.

I like the way you ended your post. Much better than "well, I have things to do, so I suppose I'll be off... but I forgot such and such...." like I do. lol

And I just re -read some of your older posts, and I find it humorous that the site ***'d out part of the name of those mushrooms I was talking about.

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