What Luck! I'm excited about a document I just found while going through some old emails. (That is all part of converting to our new email program).
I found a list of all the books I borrowed from the library and a web site I referred to over the course of my daughter's first grade science classes. I even made notes about which books I didn't particularly like, which I really liked, and which were good, but too detailed for the grade level.
Right now, I'm going through my plans for the upcoming year and ordering materials, and thinking about how to organize the day and the schedules. I am also reorganizing many of the books in our personal library so that the books and biographies about the ancient time period are in the school room and last year's books and biographies from the modern era are relocated to the cluttered room in the basement that masquerades as my "office."
I'm constantly fighting the battle of not planning too much.
The next step will be to buy some school supplies. We have many things already, but paper is always needed. This year the Artist will have a daily calendar and schedule book to help her keep on track as she will be doing more of her work than ever on her own.
Developing the skill and discipline to plan her day and stick to her plan will be a big part of school for her. With her personality, I think it will take a lot of adjustments, but we will work with it, knowing it will be good for her in the end.
So much for next year, now it is summer. The Artist is reading
Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott.
I am reading
The American Home Front 1941-1942 by good old Alistair Cooke. Who didn't see myriad reels of history films in high school, all narrated by Alistair Cooke? Who never say him introduce and critique tonight's episode of Masterpiece Theatre?
And the Engineer is going through a grade one ultimate skill builder workbook given him by grandma. I see one skill we need to work on is completing more than one answer on each page.
And when we get tired of reading (insert big belly laugh here) we have a puzzle waiting for us on the porch.
She cannot put it down, even for meals!
And just for the Engineer I found some Arthurian legends in the juvenile collection at the library. I have not opened them yet to see if these are books he will read to me (for reading) or if I will read them to him (for history). As I brought home a handful of books there are probably some of each in there.
