The 2nd week is always better!  Things are flowing better and I've decided what to scrap and what to keep.  I've decided to discontinue wordly wise and daily grams.  Wordly Wise has been replace with English from the Roots Up and daily grams with the Grammar Ace program which is only done once a week.  We are doing alot more writing this year so that will help with grammar too.  I've also only scheduled handwriting and calculadders twice a week.  That will still give them the practice they need, but we won't be soo overwhelmed trying to squeeze everything in.  Instead of science everyday for my 9 year old we are aiming for 2X a week and that may get cut to 1X if the need arises.

As far as scheduling goes we are going to try something a little different this year.  We are going to do Language Arts on Monday and Tuesday and then math on Wed. and Friday.  I'm going to treat this like a block schedule that they do in school.  The workload will be the same, but there will be double the time to complete it .  This will cut down on fitting every subject in every day.  I've tried that with Sonlight history in the past and due to the amount of reading it just wasn't doable for us.  My voice gets tired!!

Overall we're off to a pretty good start.  Even my 5 year old who I was lamenting about woke me up asking me if a toad had an exoskeleton.  Even though a toad doesn't have an exoskeleton I thought he'd done well to even remember that word from our casual reading that I thought he wasn't listening to.

We are going camping at the end of the week with my parents.  We will be at different campgrounds, but plan to do some fun things together.  So, it's a busy week here getting school done and preparing to leave at the end of the week.  Hope all of you in cyberworld are having a blessed week!

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