I haven’t been reading blogs at all this week - but when I jumped back on this morning, I am finding a lot of people talking about their plans this year!

I think I need a better plan. We are basically unschooling. I haven’t bought a curriculum - not even looked to see if I would like anything! - and for book work we have a few workbooks. Alice likes doing the workbooks but not every day.

I had the advice that homeschooling a kindergartener was super easy because I could do what I did in kindergarten - play, color, glue stuff, cut stuff, nap, do worksheets here and there. And I agree - I think that we are lifelong learners and it doesn’t have to be all academic book learning.

Alice caught on to math quickly, she can add single digits and last week we started adding double digits. She’s doing great with reading and spelling - she sounds words out and can spell simple words like mom, dad and cat. We are supposed to be teaching her in five subject areas: reading, writing, math, science and social studies. I found a kindergarten curriculum guide online and Alice already knows/does about half of the list. I figure we will be sure to go over all of it and then move forward.

Chris is finally thinking homeschooling is a good idea. He said that Alice will probably learn more and faster just for the reason of not having to wait for other kids to catch up or finish. (Did I say that already? I guess I’m just so glad he is finally really on board.)

I need to be better about keeping my journal for my association. We can keep a plan or a journal and I tried both at first - and neither worked because it was too much. I stuck to a journal because it seemed that our plans changed so often. I just need to be better about it.