Creative Play Bilingual Homeschool

Apr. 23, 2009

Random thoughts

It's past my bedtime and I can't sleep. So what do I do? I bore myself on the internet. I'm thinking about dd's homeschool year next year. We will not be purchasing another curriculum, as the funds are just not here. But, we have a very viable plan: we'll continue with ECC since we have so many weeks of it left. I have math in Spanish through the 6th grade, so I'm good there. And, there's other materials on my shelf that will get us through most of the year. If I run out (real hard since we have a great library system), there's always K-12 Free Homeschool. I've used it to supplement science, art, and music this year and like it. Well, hopefully it's still up and running next year...   Oh, and I told mom that if she had an urge to buy dd anything anytime soon, some fraction and/or geometry manipulatives, and information (read: books) on famous scientists would be really nice . Dh's current job will be ending in a couple of weeks. He picked this one up in the middle of March. My phone job ended March 27, with my last hours worked March 10 . I'm tutoring, though, but that will definitely end by the school year end. I haven't finished certifying to score tests, so I'll be unable to pick up hours for next week when the scheduler is open. I've been hired, but put on hold, for another phone job, but the only hours available are M-F, 8am-3:30pm, which are great school hours...if my dd were in SCHOOL. The only other hours are M-F from 11:30am-7pm, which is just a messed up day. I have homework to do to finish my three graduate courses this semester. I have my objective exam TOMORROW, but I'm not really worried about passing. I'm pretty sure I will. It's only almost half my grade for the entire semester. Who knows if I can continue next term. We can't afford to take out loans with jobs so scarce and not guaranteed. We've even talked about me working with Teach for America, but that would require us, or just me and dd to move to the other side of the state. And dd in school??? My dh alone during the week???? The path of bilingual homeschooling has been on my mind: how to continue, what to use... We've shifted somewhat to math and language arts in Spanish, and most everything else in English. That's just what's available. I do still find supplements in Spanish though, and dd's stronger language is still Spanish. We got dd evaluated for dyslexia, as she has symptoms that show up in both languages. And this darn test I have tomorrow... I haven't even studied, but I'm really not worried about passing. Should I be?

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