Well, for our homeschool. Perhaps one of the best known posts on my blog is Aligning your Academic Year with the Calendar Year. I’m really proud of that post and of the time we’ve been able to do just that – follow our own year and school year round. Unfortunately over the last year “school…
Every year I overplan. Officially, this is our break time. I still want to do something after a devotional, beautiful vein. And math. Oh, wait, math is beautiful too. This year, I sat down with my mom and planned our “with them” outings. They’re on Mondays, which I may regret, but that was the day…
Homeschooling affords much freedom. One of many options is the running of our Academic Year. Traditionally in the US, school runs fall to spring with summers off. This is a wonderful option, one which many homeschoolers follow for their Academic Year. I would like to present another option, which is to align your Academic Year…
Welcome to the School Starts on Monday Edition of my Weekly Reports for 2015! It is my goal to put together a report of our schooling every Friday afternoon when we’ve done a week of school. Because we have major changes in our homeschool for the 2015 Academic Year, I’m going to post today first,…
Over the weekend, I talked about the schedule change we’ll make for the Big Blocks of Time. I want to think about the schedule change for the small blocks of time, the days and weeks, too. After prayer, discussion with my husband, discussion with trusted advisors, I’ve decided to do Year 4 of Ambleside Online…
We’ve always run a year-round schedule and said we’d take breaks when needed. We start our Academic Year in January, sometime after N-boy’s birthday. We end the Friday before Thanksgiving Week. In 2015 we’re going to adopt the idea I first read about in Angelina Stafford’s article, “And on the Seventh Day God Rested: Using…