Jul. 20, 2008
It's Been A Long Time!
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It has been a long time since I have written an entry here on my blog. Life has been so bus and sometimes I feel like I have so little time to write any more. But I want to liven things up again so here I am. This summer break has been so busy. It almost feels like I am not having a break at all! Working on my unit studies, going to park days and my Weight Watchers meetings, and just every day life has replaced doing school with the kids. So it is almost like I am having no time off! Next month I plan to slowly reintroduce school work into our days with reviewing phonogram sounds and math facts, on top of the summer reading that the kids have been doing for the library's summer reading program. I have been working hard on my units studies and am now selling them on CurrClick's website. I am very excited about it. My Butterflies Unit has been the freebie this past week and I am hoping to get a lot of good exposure from it! I have also been planning out our curriculum for this year. With my 3 youngest I am going to switch all of them to Horizons Math. I only used it with my 10 year old son but think that the others kids might do well with it too. I plan on using the Teaching Textbooks Pre-Algebra program with my 8th grade son. I have heard great things about it and think that the computer aspect of it will be very appealing to him. With my 12th grader I want to use the Key To... series for an Algebra review and will probably also use the one on Geometry. For history and science with the youngest 4, I am putting together a unit on Early American History using the Peter Marshall and David Manuel series of books. For science, I am putting together a unit on Creation Science, using the book, Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation as our spine. I have dome a couple of Squidoo Pages on both of them. Below are the links: Creation Science Unit Squidoo Page Early American History Unit Squidoo Page For grammar, I want to get more into using the copywork/dictation method and possibly use Easy Grammar for my 8th grader. For writing, I got the Four Square Writing e-Workbooks from CurrClick, that I had purchased back in the beginning of summer. I have heard good things about the method from a friend who is a teacher. I have also been looking into the Heart of Wisdom's Bible-based teaching approach. I really want to incorporate the Bible more into our homeschool and this time, stick with it. I don't plan to use their units but I do want to incorporate the method into the units that I have planned to use. I also joined Weight Watchers back in late April and have lost 20 pounds so far. WW really does work! It's great and I love the accountability and the camaraderie that has come with it. I enjoy going to the meetings and learning new ways to lose the weight as well as talking with others who are going through what I am going through. The knowledge that I am going to have to get on a scale every week really helps as well. Keeps me motivated! Blessings! |
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Jul. 21, 2008 - Hi there!
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