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Life is an ever changing learning adventure! I seem to keep learning this lesson over and again, and it seems to keep coming up in different areas of life. This time the lesson is related to homeschooling. I thought I had found the curriculum that I would be using with all of my children for the rest of our homeschooling years. I have been very happy with My Father's World curriculum, but because of issues we have encountered due to the lagging economy I've had to make some changes in our homeschool. Now, rather than having the ease of a curriculum that is already planned for me, I'm doing the planning myself. I thought this was going to be an overwhelmingly difficult thing to do, but I'm finding that it isn't as tough as I thought it would be. I already knew that we would be using Apologia science for the two older children, but I wasn't sure what I would do about the youngest. Math was already set as I was able to purchase their Teaching Textbooks packages last spring. Bible was another area that I was unsure about, and Grammar was already in full swing with Easy Grammar. My main concern for the year was how to plan for history. We had been studying through history chronologically, so I knew that we needed to cover from 1850 forward. On the surface that didn't seem to be to difficult to do, but when I really began looking at what that would involve I was a little fearful. I began to pray and ask God to help me to teach the children what He wanted them to learn in school this year. I tried to put aside all of my own thoughts and fears and tried to focus on what He wanted to say to me. What I found was that He gave me a basic plan for half of the year in a period of a few days. That basic plan included books that we already had on our shelves - some purchased and others had been given to us. Some things were of concern to me in that I didn't want to gloss over important events because we didn't have the specific information I thought we would need, but God is ever faithful. Just this past week we made a trip to the library and I found seemingly all of the right books to fill in those "gaps" that I thought existed in the upcoming weeks topics. Science for the most part is solved for the youngest child. She is currently using the Elementary Apologia series we purchased for their summer courses, and will most likely use another Elementary Apologia title we have on the shelf but haven't used. My concerns over what to do for Bible were not necessary either. Ds13 is currently going through the Catechism for his Bible. Dd12 is using Polished Cornerstones that a friend passed on to us. Dd10 is using something that I thought would never again be used in our homeschooling program. What my older children hated using she loves! She's using Switched on Schoolhouse Bible. I don't know why I hadn't gotten rid of it yet, but I still had it downstairs. It was on my heart but I thought she would hate it like the older two had. I finally decided to show it to her and once she got started she has enjoyed using it. Who knew?! Anyway, it seems that my learning adventure is never ending and I'm so very thankful to have the guidance of the Holy Spirit to lead me away from what He is finished with and to what He wants for our family. Some day we may go back to My Father's World if it is His will, but for now I'm just thankful for the peace that comes from following Him. Blessings, Missy
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