Thank You Dr. King

Preparing for next year.

It is a little difficult to start preparing for next year when we are just beginning this semester. However, the time has come. My friend, Kristen, who is in San Francisco, has decided to home school Judah. She has introduced me to some resources over the past couple of days that I am going to use next year...and I am beginning to use some of them tomorrow.

She told me about this book and I have loved it. I am really into other people's experiences. This book takes an inventory of 21 homeschooling families and their reasons for home educating. It is really interesting and helpful. Each family gives their curriculum choices, their best & worst advice and their daily schedule. I got this for $ .69 on Amazon.com. It is great and really fun to read.

This is a book that I looked at before I started homeschooling. It has been a great help this year. The thing that has really helped though is this : www.coreknowledge.org. Kristen told me about this TODAY and I have told three people about it in an hour. All of his (Hirsch) teaching resources are available and free to download and use on this site. I AM IN LOVE. This will be a great resource.

I also found this. These lessons are free and easy to download. They link you to Amazon where I bought 4 of the books for a penny each.


I think that I am switching to Saxon Math this next year. (1st and 3rd) I have not been pleased with my current Math choice. I am not very good at Math so I really need a scripted teaching guide. Maybe I'll learn at the same time. (I know that calmed everyone's fear concerning my ability to home educate my children!) I have heard good things and bad things about this curriculum. We'll see.

I hope to post this week on our schedule, the best & worst advice that I have been given and my favorites concerning homeschooling.

P.S. - On a personal note, if any of my friends, whose children attend a school, have a problem with being "out of school for MLK Jr. Day"...please, PLEASE, do not say something like this to me: "I can't believe that they get out for that and not for Veteran's Day...I mean, Veteran's Day effects everyone." Please...don't say that.

The holidays are done !