We are finally settled in our new home!  The furniture is in place, and pictures are on the walls.  The closets are full and if there wasn't a space for something, it went down into the basement so I won't tell you what the basement looks like right now!  With Vic busy wrapping up his spring semester of classes, there hasn't been much time to organize the basement but I have been promised that that day will come - one day!

After a month of living out of boxes at the old place while we waited with bated breath to make sure everything was on track with the closing, and then going through two weeks of upheaval as we moved from one place to another, cleared out of the old place, and got ourselves organized in the new, school has finally begun again.  With a lovely magnolia tree in the picture window staring at us each morning, each day is truly a beautiful creation.  We are working our way through Teaching Textbooks Pre-Algebra, Learning Language Arts through Literature (Green Book), PowerGlide French, Sonlight Core 6 (World History Part I), and A Beka's Science Order & Reality (Science 7).  After a few false starts this year with science curriculum, we have finally settled on A Beka.  We have been using FireFighters for Christ's Bible Curriculum, working our way through Genesis, accompanied by this book for Devotions:

We've been using a weekly planner from Donna Young, although I've been playing with Homeschool Tracker and really like it so that's what I'm going to use next year.  We'll be making a few changes to our curriculum to implement more Charlotte Mason methods (more on that in another post!), but in case you can't stand the suspense, we'll be adding Nature Study, Shakespeare, Artist Study, Composer Study, Hymns and Folksongs.  How we'll be doing that and where we'll fit it into our schedule TBD and TBA soon.

Next year, we'll continue on with Teaching Textbooks Algebra, A Beka Science 8 (Matter & Motion in God's Universe), PowerGlide French, and Sonlight Core 7 (World History Part II).  I'm still deciding on Language Arts and Bible materials.  We have two used curriculum sales coming up in our area - one in June and one in July so I need to get my list finalized so I can look for some bargains.

That's about all L'Ecole's news right now, so I'll leave you with this to ponder:

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire" - William Butler Yeats

Pamela