But don’t underestimate the value of being flexible and being willing to throw it out and try something completely different. Unlike a traditional school your curriculum, choices only have to be a good fit for your family, and not other people. Each family is different. What your best friend loves may not work for your family, and that doesn’t make you a bad homeschooler!
It’s our 7th year of homeschooling, and each and every year looks a little different as we have a different mix of grades and interests. This year some of the big things in our school routine is a 1 day a week co-op for my oldest and virtual enrichment classes for the youngest and adding chores to our daily checklists.
We are on week 10 of our school year and we just wrapped up our United States Geography studies for the year. We started our US Geography homeschool unit early during our summer term, with the benefit that we will wrap up early this year.
For our first term, we did a Native American Unit Study. We started listening to The First Americans, volume 1 of A History of US by Joy Hakim. I had looked at this series before for our studies this year, but I get overwhelmed at doing the reading. When I found the audiobook on Scribd it was an easy decision to use this series.
We have participated in years of Occupational Therapy to learn strategies to improve his fine motor skills and found ways to add practice into our lives naturally.
