Jan. 30, 2007
Thinking About Next School Year
As much as I say I hate lesson-planning, I think I secretly enjoy it. It's like I have this weird love-hate relationship with planning and organizing everything. I think I spend so much time planning that by the time we're supposed to start, I am burnt out and ready to quit, and ready to move on to planning something else. And then I never do what I spent so much time planning to do!
I'd like to continue doing The Mystery of History with my oldest boys (we're using Volume1 now - Creation to Christ), using Winter Promise as our guide - which would mean very little planning for me. THEY have other plans, though.
My oldest *says* he wants to do Sonlight next year, either 20th Century World History or Civics/American Government. Considering the age/ability difference between Boss and Tank, they could not do the same core. Tank wants to use Bob Jones textbooks again. He's one of those weird kids who actually enjoys using textbooks and workbooks. They both hate anything hands-on and creative, unless they come up with the idea themselves. They don't want to be told by someone else to do something creative. I'm a very creative and sort of artsy type person myself, and I TOTALLY understand why they feel that way.
Then I have my younger kids. I'd like to use My Father's World with them, but they would also be in different levels. Taz would do either the 1st grade course or Adventures in my Father's World, depending on his reading level. He's making leaps and bounds this year with his phonological disorder, so he might possibly be up to grade-level reading by fall. THAT would be a miracle. Sweetcheeks would do the Kindergarten course.
Either way you look at it, I would have at least 3 or 4 different courses to keep up with! I don't know how I could possibly do that.
So I'm thinking that maybe I will go back to doing unit studies with the littles, so that I can combine their Bible, history, science, and arts & crafts, while they each do their own math and language arts. I have a 14-week Florida unit study, but *if* we do it, I will only do it with them M/W/F, so it is spread out over 23 weeks. On Tu/Th, we would do science - oceans, weather, astronomy. I've realized lately that I really enjoy doing science with my kids. I can't wait until Boss does biology, but he's rather grossed out at the thought of dissecting animals. I like to tell him about the time I was in high school dissecting a fetal pig, and I was concerned because it's brain was WAY smaller than everyone else's pigs' brains were. My science teacher laughed and made some wisecrack about only me having a retarded pig.
I'll gladly trade teaching science with anyone willing to tutor my older boys in math.
Well, it's afternoon and I still haven't showered - I think my Nyquil is finally starting to wear off - I hope I sounded coherant in writing this. I feel like a space cadet right now.
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