It's been some time since I've updated my blog here...

Still homeschooling ; but not much time for blogging about it, I guess.  

We've had some challenges lately.  The biggest distraction has been my sweet niece who is 2 months old coming to stay with us during the day.  It is hard to stay focused on math when there is a beautiful baby making noise in the background .  I'm sure as time passes, the new will wear off of that, and things will become a bit less chaotic.  At least I certainly hope so!  It has also been a while since I've had to function and care for a baby...I'm as easily distracted as the children are . 

I'm thinking we need some changes to the curriculum for next season.  Teaching Textbooks will replace Saxon for 1 dd; and I'm thinking I'll get Math U See for the younger girls.   

I also need something for Language Arts, since I don't have as much time to put together copywork and so forth on my own.  I have LLATL for grades 2 & 3, which is OK; but I'm considering Language Lessons from Queen Homeschool instead.  Anyone use these?  Simply Grammar is not a good fit for my oldest dd.  She does not like it, even a little bit; so I'm thinking I'll get Language Lessons for her as well. 

We're doing fine with our History, using A Child's History of the World as a text and then adding library books and other activities to that.  Next year we'll move into the Mystery of History books.

Science has been hit or miss, and I really need to focus a bit more on that subject.  We do lots of reading about animals, plants,  a fair amount of Nature Study, and are reading Storybook of Science off and on. 

We just finished volume I of A Child's Geography which was great fun.  We'll begin volume II soon. 

Lots of reading going on, everything from piles of easy readers, poetry, non-fiction, and fairy tales, to Sarah's newest obsession, knitting and crochet books. 

I struggle with record keeping, so I think I may try to do more journaling as a record here in the coming days.  I've tried countless different "systems" and don't seem to keep up with any of them.  Perhaps an online account here will be better.

OK, I need to get a few "non-school" things accomplished today, too.  Off to start the crockpot and find a cup of tea!