Planning for next school year

I haven't taken many pictures this past week. For one, I don't have a camera. And two, I have been doing lots of thinking, online window shopping/researching and planning for the kids school next year. I have made some decisions and made some educational purchases and linked up with some wonderful mommas to do a lap book swap. That begins NOW so we have our plates full of lots of good teaching and learning (and of course fun) over the summer.

We decided to go with Sonlight curriculum again this next school year for Jessica. Josh will likely follow along for much of it if he follows what he did this year. This school year we used P3/4 and for this next year I purchased P4/5. I got a great deal from a family who had a gently used curriculum for over $100.00 off the original price!

Both of the kids really inhaled all of the wonderful books included in the Sonlight curriculum this year. We read all of them in less than two months and have read through many of them again and again. So far I haven't found any aspect that I don't like about Sonlight. I will be supplementing with "Singapore Math" and possibly "Handwriting Without Tears". I will be following Jessica's lead as she will technically only be in Pre-K next year. I know she is young, so I am not going to push her, I will just give her as much as she shows interest in.

I can't believe we have nearly finished our first official year of homeschooling! It has been so fun and rewarding to see how sponge-like children are. All of us as parents homeschool until the child actually starts school but to continue to teach as the child gets older and see all that they retain and comprehend and watch their love for learning ignite....THAT makes my day and makes my job as a teacher way worthwhile! The pay off of investing just a little time in educating children(even if simply by reading to your kids daily) is immense!