Finally Getting Started

Well, we just officially started our new school year today. Yea! We were supposed to start three weeks ago but unfortunate circumstances seriously delayed us. This is the latest we have ever started a school year, but that's the great thing about homeschooling, you can always rearrange your schedule when things come up and still make it work in the end.

We are kind of starting off slow this week, just getting back in the hang things. We got our student planners ready to go. I printed out all of our pages and put them in a notebook for each child. We went over the pages and the kids looked at what is required of them everyday. The great thing about this planner is that it's so easy to use and the kids enjoy keeping a planner in a notebook like mom has.

In the planner there are pages for budgeting money. My kids are really excited about this. They each started a savings account( in a glass jar for now) and have agreed to save at least 10% of their money for an entire year. They get an allowance and these budgeting pages are really gonna help them see where their money is going. These are life lessons that will hopefully last them a lifetime.

Student planner sample pages ( boy/ girl)

Purchase planners

We also started Apologia: Exploring Creation with Astronomy. We made a cover sheet for our notebooks and read most of lesson 1. Evan has already fallen in love with it. I started making Notebooking pages to go along with the curriculum, so those will be up for sale sometime by the end of this school year.

We started copywork and dictation today. I have made copywork pages for Psalm 121. We've never used dictation in our school before so I am curious to see how it goes. I have heard it helps with spelling and punctuation, which Evan needs to work on, so I am excited about it. Evan is now using the smaller primary lined pages. I am trying to get him ready for regular lines by the middle of the year. Juliet is still practicing cursive. She is doing well, just still writing very big. She was using regular lines but I am switching her to small primary lines so she can remember to keep her cursive small.

Started using IEW's "All Things Fun and Fascinating." Evan is starting to just do the key word outlines orally. He will probable be doing this for several weeks or maybe months before he is ready to move on.

That's about it! We will be starting math and grammar next week. After doing science for a while we will start geography. Looking forward to this year even though we got off to a late start.