Planning
We are still waiting for the Sonlight catalog to get here, so I have not started in yet on the Language (grammar, reading, and spelling), History, and Writing portions of our curriculum. I am really conflicted about whether to go with a very structured program or to get the books recommended by the Well Trained Mind and just do those items as they are laid out in the book. The up side to the former is that it is all set out for the teacher and there is less preparation. The up side to the latter is that it is possible to “start from the beginning” and keep Kelly and Christian in sync on ancient world history while providing for maximum flexibility. I am going to have to look at it pretty carefully. My leaning right now is to go with the Well Trained Mind approach if I can get the books and do not believe it will be too onerous an effort along with my work and Lorena’s school.
This weekend Lorena and I want to go down to Lowes to get some shelving to install in the oversized closet adjacent to the family room under the stairs so we will have a place to put all our homeschool stuff for ready access. We are also going to put a couple of four drawer file cabinets there; one for the kids and one for us. It might be good to find a sturdy fold-up table and chairs that are the right size for the kids in there, too. I do not know how hard it will be to find them, but I image they are around.
Progress
We went to Gospel Meeting last night, so we did not have a lot of time to do academic work. Kelly had a lot of mathematics on which she needed to catch up from her government school. Christian and I did his “MathIt” and he progressed nicely. We missed our verses last night. I need to make sure we do that nightly. I am really looking forward to seeing how they do with learning the new verses without me looking over their shoulder.
A little bit of progress and some infrastructure planning for the weekend.