I recently realized how few weeks we have left in this school year and did a brief curriculum review. Landry and Kipp will easily finish their workbooks by the end of the year, if not sooner.
That knowledge has emboldened me. With the blessing of my charter's education specialist, we are going to throw caution to the wind and put projects first for the next few weeks. Workbooks will take a back seat to the extent that we might not get to them some weeks. If necessary, we will double up on workbooks in the last couple of weeks if we fall behind.
Given our new emphasis, I thought I'd make a list of our projects to hold myself accountable. I suspect my definition of project is pretty unique. I'm including unit studies and Landry's literature text, both of which require more preparation by me and involved, open ended discussion.
For the next few weeks, we will be focusing on the following:
- Young Scientist's Club kits and necessary follow-up research
- GEMS' Terrarium Habitats and Secret Formula unit studies
- ancient China unit study - Landry
- Journeys and Destinations language arts - Landry
- Engineering is Elementary: A Sticky Situation
- Story of the World, Volume 1 -
- learning to play the harmonica - Kipp
- Lego robot building - Kipp
- literature unit studies directed by interest- Kipp
- Great Sunflower project (if we receive seeds)
- the biochemistry of organic gardening (if I can work it in while building the garden)
- Cycles differentiated curriculum
I'm really excited. Depending how this experiment goes, I suspect the next few weeks could radically change my approach to homeschooling next year. I can't wait to see how the boys react to the change.
That knowledge has emboldened me. With the blessing of my charter's education specialist, we are going to throw caution to the wind and put projects first for the next few weeks. Workbooks will take a back seat to the extent that we might not get to them some weeks. If necessary, we will double up on workbooks in the last couple of weeks if we fall behind.
Given our new emphasis, I thought I'd make a list of our projects to hold myself accountable. I suspect my definition of project is pretty unique. I'm including unit studies and Landry's literature text, both of which require more preparation by me and involved, open ended discussion.
For the next few weeks, we will be focusing on the following:
- Young Scientist's Club kits and necessary follow-up research
- GEMS' Terrarium Habitats and Secret Formula unit studies
- ancient China unit study - Landry
- Journeys and Destinations language arts - Landry
- Engineering is Elementary: A Sticky Situation
- Story of the World, Volume 1 -
- learning to play the harmonica - Kipp
- Lego robot building - Kipp
- literature unit studies directed by interest- Kipp
- Great Sunflower project (if we receive seeds)
- the biochemistry of organic gardening (if I can work it in while building the garden)
- Cycles differentiated curriculum
I'm really excited. Depending how this experiment goes, I suspect the next few weeks could radically change my approach to homeschooling next year. I can't wait to see how the boys react to the change.
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