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Living and Learning With the Kvenvolden Bunch
May. 27, 2009
March huh?
March, the last day i posted AND the day BEFORE we found out are having TWINS! Talk about extreme parenting, two newborns at once! wow... still slightly in shock from that one!
So my homeschool planning has taken on an additional ZING to it. I ran the whole gambit from wondering if i should be homeschooling at all, to considering just homeschooling the older 2, and putting the middle 2 in school, (since Alex is soooo far ahead in math and doing fine in everything else and independent, and Nik is too far behind.) However, in the end we decided we REALLY wanted to stay homeschooling, and are just going to suck it up and make it happen! We decided to stay with the virtual school we've been with the last couple years because of the money thing mostly, we get a very good sized allocation to use on most homeschooling items and our family school budget this year would be ZERO. Although we WILL be getting a good tax return next year, it will most likely need to go to a 9 passenger vehicle, so we don't have to go everywhere in 2 vehicles... so CVA it is! They really aren't so restrictive anyway, and our advisor is the BEST, he's AWESOME. SO, my task then became coming up with a plan to make life SANE! I explored a lot of possibilities. Talked to Mr. Gilson, got some feedback there, talked to DH, who despite being gone all day is amazingly insiteful in ways of homeschooling wisdom, and came up with a plan-
We will be using Timberdoodle's packaged curriculum. We will actually have to break up the packs and order stuff individually since they contain the Apologia science, which isn't approved due to Christian content, which i'd planned on ordering myself, seperately, however, my middle 2 really aren't liking the one we are doing now so much.. they think the language is a bit condescending and babyish... "I" like it! LOL. Anyway, the Timberdoodle plans are solid but only require 2-4 hours depending on grade.
So that's where i'm at for next year! i'm eagerly watching my friend Joann's blog, http://www.homeschooldistractions.com/ because she's going to be posting info on the organizational system she uses, which i plan to use too, and think might save my butt next year!
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