Katatonia - Notebooking Pages & a very busy day

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Aug. 16, 2007

Notebooking Pages & a very busy day

I am very excited about using Moving Beyond the Page curriculum this year. It just seems perfect for me and my kids. Just enough structure, but not too much. I wanted something fairly open-ended, yet with quite a bit of the preparation already done - I'm a busy person! Josh is 6 and on grade level in math, but his reading is nearly 3rd grade level. So, it had to be challenging but still basic in some areas. MBTP seems perfect. It's interdisciplinary so he'll get something of everything while we do that - including social studies and science and it was written to touch on all the national standard objectives. I'm teaming it with RightStart Math & Singapore Math's challenging word problems to beef up his math skills, MCP Plaid Phonics (just to be sure he's got everything he needs), Handwriting without Tears & anything else I can come up with.

Anyway, I'm so excited about MBTP (we're using the ages 6-8 program) and yesterday I began developing notebooking pages for all the units/lessons in Concept 1. That's why there was no post here. I plan to make these available somehow for anyone else who is using MBTP ages 6-8 or anyone who is studying communities.. which is the first concept. More on that to come later... like when I'm finished. Don't rush me now, I have sharpened no. 2 pencil and I'm willing to use it. I'm also pretty wicked with the [Shift] key - don't test me! ;)

Today was so busy I feel like I've been run ragged. It seems like everything happens on Thursday, even if it wasn't planned. Do you have a day of the week like that? Between Tae Kwon Do, gymnastics, grocery & school supply shopping, checking on my parents house (they are out-of-town) and tending to their flowers & tomatoes, taking the kids to the park because it was finally bearable outside, figuring out what the heck happened with a financial matter, getting bills paid... it just goes on. What a nightmare it would be if every day of the week was Thursday. I mean come on, I only got in 2 cups of coffee. I'm so deprived. (or is that depraved.. I keep forgetting). =)

And now, on to more notebook pages... seize her and throw her in the dungeon!

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My display name is "Katatonic". Why? Because my first name begins with "K", I like cats and the definition seems to fit me while preparing for a homeschool year. It will also most likely sum up this blog quite nicely. "cat·a·to·ni·a –noun A syndrome seen most frequently in schizophrenia, characterized by muscular rigidity and mental stupor, sometimes alternating with great excitement and confusion." Ah, yes. A perfect fit.