[How do you avoid Burn out?]

I do a LOT of prep work over the summer, including tearing out workbook pages and arranging them by week in a big Sonlight binder with the 36-week tabs, so I have less to do during the school year. Each week my school prep is to pull the seatwork papers out of that binder, write a date assignment at the top, and drop them into hanging folders by day on my kids' desks.

 

I have realized that our year has distinct seasons, and to make the most of each season. We finish our school year mid-May, and do no seat work from mid-May until the first week in July. In July, we start math, then a few weeks later, we start English, to slowly ramp up to a full-load schedule the first week of August.

 

August & September, and January & February, are great months for us to do hands-on projects and science experiments. But October-November and April-May are crazy with "extra" stuff - church choir programs, homeschool group service projects & parties, etc. So I've realized that it's OK to back off on some of our schoolwork during the crazy seasons of the year, and I try to do more during the more calm seasons.

[Help me as I consider history for next year...]

Another thing to consider is that you'll have good re-sale value for Sonlight books if you don't end up using them for subsequent children.

 

Is there a reason you'd consider jumping into Sonlight 2 (now called C)? It's the 2nd year of a 2-year study of World History. Just wondering if you'd be better off starting with Core B, then C.

[Horizons 4th grade math users- can you help me?]

I think if you just circle the correct answers, in the picture it is spelled correctly. I don't think they intended you to write out the letters in the order of the answers, KWIM? Just circle the letters in the picture that contain any correct answer, and they spell BOARD.