Homeschooling Planning – Mid-Summer Mark

Here in the Deep South, many homeschooling families are starting around the end of August. If you think about it, that doesn’t leave too many weeks left s left to plan and do things.  In my personal planning for homeschooling a third grader and a kindergartner, I am up to the middle of February.  We typically end the first week in June, so as you can see I have much more to do.

How are you coming with your planning?  I would love to hear from you and know what is challenging you, what is wonderful, what you have left to do.

How is your house coming?  Your school room space? I have a few areas of my house left to go through and de-clutter.  I am also ordering blackboards and a new home school cabinet that I hope will work better for our needs. 

I would love to hear from you, and where you are!

Many blessings,

Carrie

Summertime Bickering

Does it seem to anyone else that the amount of sibling bickering goes up in the Summer?

I think this increase could  be due to a combination of a changing/different rhythm to the day, (possibly one where  less structure is present than during the school year) and the  weather where the children are outside and in an expansive gesture most of the day (and therefore needing help to come back to an inward gesture).

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