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All of the public schools in our area have started back or will be in the next week. Does this mean we need to as well? We have been doing some fun things that count as school, but are not intentionally schooling yet. We have been working with some of the things that we have received as part of the TOS Homeschool Crew--reviews to start in a few weeks  . My plan is to keep adding in a subject or so at a time every week. I hope to have everything fully going for the week by the week after Labor Day. The children have no problem adjusting to more 'schooly-type' things each day. The main hold-up is Mama having things prepared and organized. I plan to implement my own version of Sue Patrick's Workbox system to start the official school year with. I will hopefully be reviewing her book for the TOS Homeschool Crew and will have a chance to do it 'right' as well. I know that having things ready for the children that they can do on their own will really help when I am trying to do too many things at once. We are Charlotte Mason style homeschoolers. I like to use things that I find from Simply Charlotte Mason. I like the schedules that they have shown to able to have my children working together for some subjects. I also like to use reading lists from them as well as Ambleside Online. I have looked over AO's schedules and it seems to much for me to try to keep up with for the number and ages of my children. Did I mention these things are free and cover all ages/grades? I love that! We started Mystery of History vol. I last year. We made it as far as the first semester point in the book by May. We took many 'rabbit trails' and spent longer on some lessons than the schedule from the book showed. I love that about homeschooling. It is our own schedule we are keeping. If something is interesting, we can spend longer. If something is not or we have covered it elsewhere in some other way, we can move quicker. I plan to pick up where we left off with MOH. Well, actually, we will spend the next few weeks skimming over the first portion to review where we have been  .You can follow along with us if you like. I will be posting reviews for many fun things as I get them completed. It should be a fun year! You can see what other homeschoolers are up to by checking out this fun link through The Homeschool Lounge.  |
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