Within the Lines

"The mind of a homeschooling mom plans her way, but the Lord directs her steps."

The coming year is planned as follows:

     1) We will begin the 2007-2008 school year on October 1st. 

     2)  The first term runs October thru December, 10 weeks of schooling with one week off for Thanksgiving (and Christmas card prepping) and the last 2 weeks of December off for Christmas.

     3)  Second term runs January thru mid-March, 10 weeks with first week of January off for decluttering and bookkeeping and ending with the middle week of March as spring break (starting plants, spring cleaning).

     4) Third term runs late March thru May, 10 weeks.

     5) Thus, 30 weeks of "regular school".  We cover regular subjects --Bible, memorywork/recitation, Spanish, social studies, science & nature, language arts, math, health/P.E., music, art-- in (mostly) regular ways, definite in-school hours, regular routine.

     6) After two weeks off the beginning of June (garden-planting, decluttering, garage sale), we begin the fourth term, 6 weeks of "summer school".  Those 6 weeks will actually be spread out thru September by doing 4 half weeks followed by 1 week off (ex: week 31A, week 31B, week 32A, week 32B, off).  Thus 2-3 day weeks that can flex around the week's work and fun.  Summer subjects will be memorywork review (review of pieces memorized during the year), Spanish review, math games and drill, individual unit studies according to interest, individual garden plots w/journalling, and state studies (possibly tying in to vacation when available). 

We'll see how it goes...