Lately...

Lately i've been spending most of my free ; ) time at night organizing and listing lots of homeschool items to sell. As we homeschoolers know, the more curriculum we buy the more space it takes up on our shelves. So, it's time to make some more space...just so we can fill it up again! If you're interested in seeing what we're selling, check it out here.



Those who know me well, know that i love change. So it goes with homeschooling. We have changed our homeschooling curriculum, again. My ultimate goal is to get to a place where we find certain things that we like in each subject, and stick with it for all of our children (i did say that i love change, right...we'll see how it goes!).



I love My Father's World and still highly recommend it to others, however, we are at a place in our family where it doesn't work for us anymore. I found that i was spending so much time focusing on teaching history,etc. geared towards Cody's age (who technically can learn independently) and lacking time to teach Owen who really needed one-on-one time in learning to read. So, my goal now is to let the reading well, independent learners (around grade 3 or 4)branch out on their own more with textbook type curriculum and help from me as needed so that i can focus my schooling time and energy on my learning to read children.



A wise, veteran homeschool mom reminded me recently that reading, writing, and arithmetic are what we need to focus our homeschooling time and energy on. These are the subjects our children need to learn well to be successful in life. History and science, while important, but not necessary in life, can and will get picked up over the years. Of course, ultimately, schooling aside, i feel that a relationship with the Lord and teaching our children to live and love from the bible is far more important than any earthly school subject ; ) You can read more about this in other posts.



Look for a future post about what specific curriculums we are using these days.



Have a blessed day!