Revving up!

For some reason, the beginning of any new venture is particularly exciting. New supplies, empty journals, full gas tanks.

It was the same with our homeschool start.

I spent h o u r s agonizing over planning our assignments and field trips and building schedules and…

None of it mattered.

Lil finished a year’s worth of math worksheets in the first two weeks. I had to order First Grade level math books so I could keep up with her. Kindergarten was mostly a review in critical thinking and pattern recognition anyway.

And we have set Biblical Greek aside for now. I was intending to teach her a letter ever week but it was getting confusing with her preschool lessons and mastering her handwriting in English has taken precedence.

And isn’t that the point of homeschooling? Meeting the kids where they are, going at their pace, building them up instead of making them rush to catch up to where they “should” be.

My new motto: Don’t “should” yourself, don’t “should” your kid.

So all those charts and calendars went out the window. And I am thrilled because that means that every week, every day, I get to make new lesson plans.

It’s like hitting the road, knowing that you have to be in one town by the end of the year but you don’t HAVE to make any specific stops along the way. Back roads, highways, whatever brings you the best view and gets you where you need to be.