It's That Time of Year...

Second semester. January and February blahs. Counting the days until the spring. What do I do to get over this hump experienced by homeschool moms around the country? I start planning next year! Why we do this, I do not know. But I KNOW I am not the only one. Message boards and yahoo groups and blogs are a buzz with questions about what children will be learning NEXT year...nevermind that our school year won't be over until the first week of June. More on next year's plans in a later post. There are still decisions to be made, but I am getting VERY excited about a few new things I am considering.







For the rest of this year, Rachel and Mary Evelyn will be enjoying volume 4 of Five in a Row together. This splitting them into two levels is for the birds. I can't keep up...so next week they will enjoy Snowflake Bentley together. I doubt we'll be fortunate enough to have more snow to go with this study, but at least we have recent snow memories. AND...at Michael's I bought some snow! I don't know what it is exactly, but supposedly if I mix it with water I will have a gallon of snow. This will have to do for now. I bought 3 boxes of it so each girl can play with her own little gallon of snow. (Betsie joins us for the fun stuff, of course.)

Also, for the remainder of the year my girls are taking ART LESSONS! They are loving it! And wouldn't you know it, the lady who is their teacher lives waaaaaay out and has chickens among other animals. So we do the art lesson and then feed and chase chickens. Do you think Mary Evelyn is loving that or what? It takes us half an hour to get there, so there is some good car schooling going on as we listen to books on tape.