Preparing for the School Year

The kids in our town have gone back to school. They started last Thursday. In fact most schools in the state started last Thursday.

We will not be starting until the first week in September. First of all it is still too HOT to think much less learn. We are STILL having triple digit temps around here and when you add in the humidity, well it just isn't at all pleasant.

Our house was built in the 1930's and we do not have central air. Due to it's position the kitchen just dosen't get as muc of the AC as the rest of the house and it can get really hot in there in the afternoon. Plus to me, it just seems that August is still summer and school should not begin until September. That is one advantage of homeschool, the flexbility of the scheduling.

Since David has decided to homeschool, we are going to have a full table. You can be sure that Allison and Lil Bit will be joining us. Lil Bit will be mostly coloring and scribbling, but Allison (who turned 4 on the 16th) will be doing preschool work this year.

David will be working on the same credits public school kids are because he wants to get his a homeschool diploma instead of a GED and I will have to keep records of what he does and send it in to the state. Math will be the biggest challenge since I am no good at high school math, but with the help of website and friends, hopefully we will survive...if not I will get him a tutor.

Daniel and Hunter will be in 5th and 4th grades and so their stuff will be easy for me to teach. I haven't decided for sure what we are going to do, but usually we decide that together and we will be doing that in the next coupld of weeks.

I have decided that we will start each morning out with a prayer from my book "Pagan Prayers" and then we will have some sort of Pagan idea or short lesson to start the day off. I also think for religious studies this year, we will talk about specific gods and goddesses. Later in the year we may also look into studying the beliefs of other religions. This can also count as Social Studies, especially if we go into the cultures of each religion. I can have all 3 boys do the general studies and then some more advanced stuff for David.

Before we can get the school year under way tho, I am going to have to do some rearranging of furniture in the house. I will need to have my big desk brought in from the shed so I can be more organized.

I also need to go thru my school supplies and see what is still good and what I need more of. And I need to look into signing the boys up for 4H since they have decided that this is going to be something they want to do and it is a good socialization opportunity

We have a busy couple of weeks ahead of us, but it's going to be exciting. I LOVE getting ready for school and planning out the school year.

Blessed Be!