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Aug. 21, 2006

Counting Down the days till School

The living room is taking longer than I thought. However, I do have the folding table cleared and put away. There are now three small piles to be delivered to other parts of the house and then its normal cleaning to get my living room back! So I thought I could come and post again.

The public schools in our county started today. Most of the private schools in the area start next week. I’ve revised our start date from August 30^th to September 1^st. September 1^st is the first day of our co-op, so that will be our first day of school. It will be a fun day and a day with friends. My oldest daughter begins her first day of college on the 28^th and my husband goes back to school beginning the evening of September 6^th. Its going to be quite a busy school year for this family!

This coming Sunday we’ve invited our Junior High Sunday School class to come to our house for an end of the year picnic. So this week is dedicated to cleaning house for company, but that will also put us in a good place for school. Not only will the living room and dining room get a good once over but the laundry and family room will too.

Next week I will dedicate myself to the task of inputting lesson plans (at least the first 9 weeks) into Home School Tracker, my home school lesson plan software. I also need to prepare my first art lesson for our co-op. I’ll be teaching art using Mona Brooks’ Drawing with Children mixed with some art history. I’m really looking forward to that. I love teaching the elementary art class!

If I can keep on task this week and next, we’ll be in a good place to begin our studies on September 5^th!

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Aug. 15, 2006

A Fresh New Year

It's August. For me that means clearing out the old and bringing in the new. The shelves are stocked with new books and supplies and last year's books are waiting to be put away. I'm a Queen procrastinator, so what should have taken a few days has taken over a week! I'll get it done tomorrow! ... or maybe Thursday.

After I clear out the old stuff and have a nice tidy living room again I'll be ready to start making my lesson plans in Home School Tracker. (I LOVE that program!) I always look forward to a fresh year with new materials and a new chance to show myself and my family that we can keep a schedule.

So what are we doing this year?

S- and J- - 9th grade twins
- Sonlight's Alt. 6 Bible program
- Awana's 24/7 program on Sunday nights
- Sadlier-Oxford Grammar through Writing and Composition 9
- Sonlight Alt. 6 readers and dictation
- Apples Daily Spelling Drills for Secondary Students
- Bob Jones World History with Activity book
- Sonlight Alt. 6 read alouds
- The Teaching Company's High School World History DVD Course (A weekly supplement for fun and discussion.)
- Apologia's Exploring Creation with Biology, Modules 1-9 with Co-Op
- Rosetta Stone German

S-
- General Math with SOS
- The Teaching Company's Basic Math DVDs
- Chorus on Thursdays with Umbrella School
- Improvisation on Thursdays with Umbrella School
- Soccer in Fall, Basketball in Winter and Softball in Spring with a local Christian School

J-
- Video Text Algebra Modules C-F
- Visual Basic (with Dad)
- Karate for Christ

E- - 3rd grade
- Leading Little Ones to God
- Awana's T and T program on Sunday nights
- Continue to learn to read with 100 Easy Lessons and Reading Reflex
- Lots of Easy Readers and Bob Books
- I Can Read It! by Sonlight
- Old version of LLATL Red
- Sonight Core 1+2 history
- Sonlight Core 1+2 read alouds with Dad
- Mystery of History Volume 1
- Apologia's Exploring Creation with Zoology 1
- Singapore 2A, 2B and 3A
- Handwriting Without Tears
- Art with Co-op (Drawing with Children and Art History)
- P.E. and/or Spanish with Co-Op
- How Great Thou Art, I Can Do All Things art lessons
- Fall Soccer with Local Recreation Group
- Weekly Piano lessons
- Twice a month drop-in science, art and P.E. classes with Umbrella

Wow! When I write it all out it looks intimidating. But I think I can do it. I've got a tentative schedule worked out that includes driving my oldest daughter to Community College a few days a week. Fortunately we have a friend who is also going to CC this fall and we'll be carpooling some.

I think in order to motivate me to finish clearing out the living room of old books and other school related stuff, I will refrain from posting more here until I am done! My reward for finishing that task will to be come back and blog some more. Yes, I like that idea.

Okay... I'm off....

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