........Now where did I put those school books????
For real, we will be starting back to school work the first of August. It is just too darn HOT to do anything else. My girls do not mind starting back this time each year, they know that we will be taking a break during the Fall and enjoy the cooler temps.
Back to school things...........
We use all of the Abeka books but I have a thought in the back of my head, (trying to come to the front, lol), about using one of the unit studies type programs that I have here on my shelves. I like the thought of using a unit study, and all of the different type paths it would bring to our studies, but I just am not very good at keeping up with them. I tend to forget to get things together for the next topic or unit of it and then we fall behind. I mean, I start the year off right, but lose ground before our fist break, you know?
I have my second one to be starting high school. It really makes you stop and look back at what you have been doing. This daughter has never been in school, just all homeschooling. I sit back and think about if I have taught her everything that she will need, you know the basics of education. She is really a "home-maker" type young lady but I have been planning her courses as if she will be heading to college. I do not want her to get to that place in life and then think that she should have taken a certain course or two to prepare her for a college education. My oldest one is doing well in college, she even made the "Dean's List" this last semester !!! She has a 4.0 GPA right now.
My youngest is starting the 5th grade and is totally unaware of life, lol . She just does whatever I tell her to do and then goes on with the day. She has no set plans (not at her age) and she just wants to keep busy. So if you give her school work, arts and crafts or whatever, she is happy.
I have a lot that I want to be doing around the home and it is really easy for me to get over there wondering what life would be like if I did not homeschool. What great projects would be going, how much quilting would I get done, what type of Christmas presents I might could make??? Then the news comes on and you hear what kids are doing out in the world, or your neighbors stop by and you see how their children are acting.......My daughters are not perfect, they fight with each other and they can get loud, but at least I am right in the middle of their lives, knowing what they are doing, how they are treating each other and I can train them in the right ways.
Yes, as my daughters get older, they do go and do things without me or their father with them, but we do not fear what they are doing or how they are acting........we have trained them up in a godly way, that we trust they do what is right and act as if we were right there with them. And if they should do something they shouldn't, we are at home praying at night that God will convect them so bad that they can not sleep and that they have to come and confess what they have done. This does not happen very often, but it has happened with our oldest one.
Well, this post certainly went all over the place. That's what happens when I sit down on a Monday morning with my thoughts going all over the place.
I do resist starting in August (schools around here actually start NEXT week), but I can see the sense of starting in Aug. and taking a few weeks off in the fall. I just can't quite get motivated!
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