Are You Ready?

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It is that time of the year to begin again. That is if you take a break in the summer. The beauty of homeschooling is that you get to choose the best schedule for your family. For our family we choose to take most of the summer off. However, learning is a lifestyle for us so we are always schooling, we don’t “officially” count it through the summer though.

I have struggled trying to pick our curriculum for this fall.

Our two children are very different in their learning styles. So for the first time ever I have pieced together a curriculum that will be what we need.

I really had to pray this through. These children belong first to God. He knows exactly how they are made and exactly what they need. This year it ended up to be a mixture of this and that. I think I will like it better this way.

I decided to use Switched on School House for a couple of subjects with my oldest. I will be doing Singapore Math with lots of manipulative tools for my ADHD learner. I am also going to use the skip counting memory work from Classical Conversations. We will be doing The Story of History volume 1. We will be using the Cycle 2 Science from Classical Conversations and build on that. We will be with La Clase divertida for our Spanish again and Prima Christiana for our Latin. We are using Spelling plus for Spelling and Handwriting without tears. We will be doing lots of hands on field trips to aid in this process. For Bible I am not sure yet what to do.  The thing I know for sure is it is how we will start our day. I am thinking we will be studying a lot about unity this year. We will be doing lots of reading individually and read alouds. My picks for this year so far are The Hobbit, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and Alice in Wonderland.

Thankfully in our fourth year of doing this I am finally feeling a little more confident. God has given us all we need. We are fully equipped to do every task He gives us to do. This includes homeschooling. After four years I am finally feeling this. I hope this means we are set for a great year.

I really want to know what you are all up to this year. What suggestions do you have to help others feel confident in this large task? When is your school year starting? What curriculum have you planned? Let us hear from you!

Angela Parsley, of the international ministry Refresh My Soul Ministries, is a wife and homeschooling mother to her 2 young daughters. Angela is also a contributing author to a devotional book entitled, “Standing on the Promises of God” and Radical Revolution, a devotional site for teen girls through Proverbs 31 Ministries.