But selfishly, when my kiddos are on their "summer vacation," Mom wants to be on summer vacation too!
So at the beginning of the school year, I start penciling in a list of materials I may want to use the NEXT year. I keep it on a sheet of paper in my Homeschooling Planner.
Here in North Carolina, the state requires you to name your school when you register as a homeschooling family.
Our school is called "Shining Light Academy."
I keep all of my important homeschool things in here, like HSDLA information, and print materials....
State-required information, like Attendance Records, Standardized test results, and our irreplaceable "peach card" that the state of North Carolina sends us, confirming our registration.
And so.....as January rolls around, I have taken my prospective curriculum list from pencilled, to inked. And the end of January, or beginning of February, I start ordering the curriculum.
As it comes in, I break it down into individual lessons, and then determine the number of lessons needed per week to complete it in the the 180 days of school the next year. I put all of these lesson plans on paper, and keep them in my binder, organized with the little tabs on the side.
I don't break the lessons into weekly plans, until the week prior.
Sometimes things come up, like spur-of-the-moment field trips, or army life events.....like Daddy coming home from Afghanistan. So we keep our flexibility in our schedule. But it all gets done, and we always do the prerequiste number of days each year.
This is our system, and it works for us.
That's the great thing about homeschooling...the flexibility given to each family, to figure out what works for them. No cookie-cutters here.
Except in the kitchen.
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