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    Transitioning to homeschooling with a newborn. . .

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    Okay, folks, I'm beginning to get just a little bit nervous. I'm due with our third in about a month, and my eldest will be starting 1st grade next school year. I'm looking for advice/btdt/encouragement concerning this transition. . .

     

    Here are some questions I have:

    1. Is it realistic to think that if the baby is born end of May/first of June that we can resume a light school schedule in July?

     

    2. If I ALREADY struggle with getting things done during the day, am I being unrealistic to think I can do this? I should probably qualify this by saying that I have admittedly unrealistically high expectations (at time) of what I can accomplish.

     

    Help!!!!:ohmy:

    My 4 YEAR OLD just told me she wants to go to public school!

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    We were outside and the girls were swinging. We had just been discussing the fact that yes, they would continue doing rest time "even when they're 11!" I told them that it would be a time for them to do something quiet--reading, drawing, etc. DD2 suddenly announced that she wanted to go to public school because they do "more fun things than just reading" and that they "play on playgrounds" and "have recess."

     

    I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. :tongue_smilie:

     

    All this on the heels of my girls having a great "light" day of lots of reading--Bible story book, lots of picture books, a couple of chapters from The Secret Garden, and a phonics review game. It was their second trip outside, too, for DD2 to practice her newly-acquired skill of pumping her legs to get going on the swing all by herself.

     

    I knew it would eventually come up, but I didn't expect it when she is still an entire school year away from being old enough for K!

    Booklists for SOTW1

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    Can anyone point me in the direction of a thread or website in which someone has detailed favorite resources (books) to use with SOTW1? I'm trying to get a handle on next year, and I'd like to have some of the groundwork done for me! :001_smile:

    What do you do when tantrums derail your lessons/day?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I suppose I should qualify all this by saying that I'm 36 weeks pregnant, so I'm pretty emotional myself. ;) My girls both have colds, too, and that has made it worse this week.

     

    My eldest dd gets frustrated easily with new things. That's the main issue we face.

     

    I do think that getting started early with the bulk of our lessons helps, too. Some days, though, it just doesn't happen, for various reasons.

     

    It helps to know I'm not alone! :grouphug:

    What do you do when tantrums derail your lessons/day?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I'm thinking here about my preschooler, whose tantrums can reach epic proportions at times. I'm not really looking for a discipline solution here ('though I wish I could extinguish the tantrums!), but more just how do you carry on with schooling?

     

    Actually, this applies with my school-aged child, too. She's just in K, but lately she's had some major melt-downs that have derailed our lessons, too.

     

    What do you do when this happens?

    what is your favorite audio book?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    I haven't read all the replies, so this might be repetitive, but here goes:

     

    My girls have listened to and LOVED

     

    All the Little House on the Prairie stories (except These Happy Golden Years--we haven't done it, 'though I'm sure they would love it)

    Charlotte's Web

    Stuart Little

    Mr. Popper's Penguins

    Heidi

    Henry and Ribsy

    Clementine

    Caddie Woodlawn

    The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (this one did scare my younger dd a little, but I think it's the dramatized version from Focus on the Family)

    the American Girl books

    Ginger Pye

    Akimbo and the Elephants; Akimbo and the Snakes (I believe there are lots of titles in this series)

     

    I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones that come quickly to mind.

     

    We love audiobooks!

    Deciding on SL for next year

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted · Edited by hopeistheword
    I thought of something else.

    Lightly Salted--Yes, actually this is something I've gone back and forth about, too. My older dd is doing very well with reading, and this has been her true K year. I feel fairly confident ('though I am admittedly ignorant about the program as a whole) that she would do well with Core 1. DD2, though, as you can see from my signature line, will not be 5 until November, so she won't be a true K'er until the next school year. She is wiggly and fun but not really ready to buckle down to do seatwork.

     

    I suppose my main concern with starting dd1 in Core K is that if I ever do drop SL and just use TWTM history cycle, she'll be off.

     

    Input, anyone? :D

     

    ETA: Another hold up on Core K is that we've already read several of the books as read-alouds over the past couple of years. My girls LOVE to be read to, and we've done a lot of it so far.

    Deciding on SL for next year

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    Thanks, everyone! I have had my heart set on TWTM/SOTW, etc., for a long time, but that was before the reality of homeschooling with a newborn hit me.

     

    Now I'm trying to tell myself that it's just first grade, and we can tweak it to be whatever we want it to be! :tongue_smilie:

    Deciding on SL for next year

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    I've been back and forth about this SO MANY times, but I think I've just about decided. (This is with dh's help, of course!) I think we're going to use SL Core 1 next year for dd's 1st grade--history and literature. I had originally planned to simply use SOTW, but dh has encouraged me to purchase something that will require less time for me to plan. We will have a new baby in the house by that time, so my brain will be on overload.

     

    My question is this: will SL make this easier?

    How to do Sonlight TWTM way

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    Next year will be our second official year homeschooling, and because we will also have a new baby, my dh has encouraged me to find something a little more planned. I've just about settled on SL, but I wanted to still do it WTM-ish. Thanks for this thread! I'll definitely look around your blog!

    Anyone use Charlotte Mason Help?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    I guess I'm such a black and white thinker that it's hard for me to combine anything! :glare: I'm thinking I will probably do language the WTM way--starting with FLL next year and continuing OPGTR. However, I like the idea of all the little extras inherent in a CM education--the artist studies, etc. Too, I like the short, gentle lessons.

     

    I've been greatly influenced by CM blogs, too. Jimmie's Collage is one I frequent and am so inspired by! Although I'm not sure I can pull it off, I love how she incorporated a lot of art/lapbooking/notebooking in her CM homeschool.

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