A decision

I have decided that instead of trying to update this blog daily and getting bored and overwhelmed, I will do my best to update weekly.  I am sure I can find a few minutes a week to share little bits of our homeschool experience.

We actually did start school work this week, but it has been a slow start.  I still need to write and send in my IHIP (Individualized Home Instruction Plan) to the school district, and we've already taken a day off, but I'm okay with a slow start since really, I just want to keep the kids in the learning frame of mind as opposed to let them forget everything they have learned and have to start from scratch in September.  Fun stuff.

Anyway, we'll probably be doing a little bit of school work today, but I plan to keep it light, partly due to the weather, and partly due to the fact that our school year this year IS divided into weeks instead of days.  :)

Time flies

I cannot believe I haven't posted in this blog in well over a year.  That is so sad.  We are still living (and loving) the homeschool life.  We used My Father's World for Kindy.  Sonlight for grade 1.  Oak Meadow for grade 2.  And we have decided to, yet again, switch it up for grade 3.  We are doing Charlotte Mason style for grade 3.  I got some books yesterday and I am already loving it.  So exciting!!  Grade 2 ends on June 28th, and I figure we'll pick right back up with grade 3 the first week in July.  It's so much easier to continue through the Summer in the same routine than it is to stop school and restart in September.  It will also leave us with the flexibility to take time off when we feel we need to throughout the year.  AND we'll be able to start grade 4 before she would be out of grade 3 in a public school setting.  :)

So, one of my goals is to keep this blog updated.  And hopefully I am more successful than I have been.  :)