Today is my first day of "freedom".  For a while now I have had a job outside the home.  Trying to balance work, mothering, homeschooling, housekeeping, and my own interests has been tough.  I am looking forward to the opportunity to be home and have time to deal with all the really important things.

This week our plan is to really dig in to our unit on Plants.  I am using What your Kindergartner Needs to Know as a basic curriculum guide here.  I am sure we will go more in depth on some thngs the book covers only briefly.  But for now we will start with their plant unit.  Today we are going to go outside to the garden and pull some weeds and look at them- trying to figure out what each part of the plant is.  Then we are going to glue together a model of a plant (cutting the stems and leaves out of construction paper). 

Meanwhile I have put together a basic morning routine and I hope I can continue getting up a few hours ahead of my dear son.  It helps.  This morning already I have swept the kitchen floor, thrown in a load of laundry, folded and put away another load, watered the garden, cleaned Moneky-man's room and made his bed (he climbed in with us early this morning- leaving his room free for me to straighten), and am about to do some academic reading of my own.  My big project right now is working on Monkey-man's halloween costume.  I know it is early for Halloween but he wants to be a knight.  And being a big kid myself I love Halloween so I am going to try my hand at making authentic chain mail.

Last night I got online and hooked into the local homeschool groups. I can't wait to really get moving on this.