Well, we've been at it for just over a month and the kids and I are really starting to find our 'groove' with the lessons this year. I'm only homeschooling four of them as my oldest has entered into the public school realm this year. I must say it's a bit different not having her home all day.
My oldest, at home, is steadily going through his Saxon Math 2 curriculum. We never finished last year and he's doing multiple lessons a day and is just flying. He'll be caught up by year's end no problem! My DD2, is chugging away doing math printouts online and thoroughly enjoying it. I may get her a Saxon workbook for the second half of the year; we'll see. My two youngest DDs that I'm schooling are using these wonderful printouts from Confessions of a Homeschooler. I printed out the Daily Learning Notebook for the 5 year old, and the Preschool Daily Learning Notebook for the 3 year old. I put them both in a binder full of page protectors and they use dry erase markers to trace the letters, numbers, write their name, etc. They have more fun with that than anything and are constantly asking to do school!
We're sort of eclectic this year with our curriculum due to budget constraints, but they're loving what they have. They're doing Apologia Science, MFW year two, and BJU English. The Magic School Bus Oceans For Nintendo Ds (Google Affiliate Ad)We've started the workbox system with the two oldest and they really are thriving with it as they have no question as to what they need to do each day.
Well, that's an overview in a very small nutshell. Hopefully, I'll be a bit more consistent with my blogging on this side of life as well as every other aspect. :)
Enjoy the fall foliage out there! I'm sure we will!
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As for the write on wipe off pages. I found at the homeschool store some really well made pages that were made with more sturdy material. It was a sturdy clear vinyl that had sewn binding around the edges of it and then you just insert any page you want into it and it becomes a write on wipe off page. It was GREAT for printing practice as you could use the pages again and again. Hey if you have a sewing machine and a craft store nearby, you could crank out SEVERAL of those babies in a snap. They would go over well at a homeschool group, and you could take them with you in the car as you could store several pages at a time in them so that they could be more sturdy to write on and you could even be smarter than those people and include a loop to hold your white board marker. :) happy homeschooling.
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