Fun In The Sun

We took the first week of the month off to spend with dh who took vacation time.  We began reading about Greek heroes, including Zeus and Hercules.  Reese didn’t like the human body chapters of his science, but he made it through okay.  He does enjoy...

The first month went very well.  I’d say it was due to two things;  ds4 was excited to start school again, and I did major lesson planning beforehand.  I mean literally mapping out every lesson for the year, printing up worksheets, finding and bookmarking...

I found an old post where I compared my curriculum choices from the beginning of the school year to the end and thought I’d do that again.  It was actually quite helpful.  Here is the post from the start of our 2013-2014 year with my notes.
Ds3 12yo 7th grade...

We did a pretty big overhaul of the homeschool room last year, and I still love it, so this year will just have a few tweaks here and there.
Keeping the same desk configuration with my desk facing the window and two tables butted up against it, one for ds3 and one for ds4.  The tables work great…lots of room to work, we can all see each other, the cats have full access.  If it ain’t broke...