If you're not a homechooler, you might be surprised to see what the house of a homeschooler looks like this time of year.
I'm making a sweeping generalization here. I know lots of homeschoolers work year around, and there wouldn't be much difference between April and August. But in our house, there sure is.
This year, I made a point to clean and organize our school room early. Our sweet little room is ready for the students; new books are on the shelves. I've been pulling all of my teachers manuals and poring over them, making plans for all the bright and shiny empty weeks of our school year!
We're tackling quite a few subjects this year. Catie is studying World History, along with an accompanying literature course, Shakespeare, biology, French II, Geometry, Geography and English composition. David is also doing World History, Shakespeare, general science, 5/6 grade math, grammar and writing, geography and Spanish--oh, and they're both doing some art history, too.
As a homeschooling mom, every year is a new canvas. We'll start out strong, and some new things will work; others might not, or they might need to be tweaked. We begin the year with high hopes.
A few weeks into the school year, our neat schoolroom will look different. There'll be books laid out, writing on the white board, papers in the teacher's inbox. Kids will be curled up in chairs reading or sitting at the kitchen table doing math pages.
That's what homeschooling looks like.
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