We started our first day of December with snow. It’s still here today albeit the drizzle of freezing rain is doing it’s best to clear it away.
We went for a walk to the store for hot chocolate. It started Merry enough, but with three boys and a dog there were a few tears shed and a vicious snowball fight in the middle of the doorway of our market.
A realization came about this previous two weeks. I’m not sure if I shared yet, but I know firmly believe there can be too many worksheets. Gasp…I mean didn’t you know this about me already. But, I guess somewhere in my wee little mama mind I really hoped this would be the year my sweet children would wake up with a love of workbooks and worksheets and order. But, alas I need to step back. Curriculum in this house has to have an open ended componaent.
Take Math U See for example. This works well for us and the boys balk at all other curriculums. We can work for Mastery with this program. We do not need to do all six pages of student work. It doesn’t take an hour to explain the lessons. It works!
And, I am overwhelmed. We have to do lessons together or I’m going to explode.
So, two steps forward and two steps back.
More Charlotte Mason.
Less Worry.
More together.
More reading. We have been really lax with reading here. I miss our snuggly reading and discussions. Our reading times together have always been so good for our minds and hearts. They fuel learning in unexpected ways. So, somehow they have to come back.
We returned almost all of the library books we had and picked up a fresh new stack. One liberated of lessons or instructions. Just different topics and new authors…and some old beloved ones too.
The Land of All Things Lewis 