Fall '08 School Planning

Feeling much, much better today.

Trying to get the stuff together for our coming school year. We are going to officially start our fall season on Sept. 8.

This week was another half day summer schedule and next week we will take off so that I can gather, collect, prepare, print out, and immerse myself in Year Two of Tapestry of Grace. I already have the books on hold at the library for our first week though. Year Two takes up where we left off in the spring with the fall of Rome. This is getting into history I am more familiar with, so should be a little easier for me.

We are all looking forward to starting our new unit. I love that the kids are excited about it also.

Last year, since it was our first year with Tapestry, I chose not to add in a science curriculum. I knew that I wanted to add a science program this year so we started Apologia this summer. I love it and the kids love it so we will be doing that three times a week as well this fall. We are going to have a busy and full schedule.

Also, God has placed it on my heart for quite some time to have the kids and me involved in some sort of community service project. But I have not to this point made it happen. Paula told me about Feed My Starving Children and I looked into it, as well as a couple of other food banks, and the FMSC seemed to be the most willing to allow children in to help. So we will be adding that into our school week as well. Not sure how that is going to work out, it may be an evening activity. I am open to other ideas for this area as well.

Kristen