so this morning i wake up with big ideas.
i should always be wary when this happens.
i never learn.
i decided this morning that i was going to take a look at the first grade and kindergarten curriculum on the curriculum-website-that-shall-remain-nameless, just to see what we had waiting for us in the fall. this was a mistake.
of course i decided it might be fun to go ahead and start a little early with everything, to give it sort of a trial-run during the summer.
during the course of this, i added no less than FOUR subjects apiece for each of the children. FOUR. not only that, but each child has his or her own separate history and science curriculum, something i've never attempted before.
it turns out that lesson planning for three individual children takes a lot more work and time than i'm used to spending. probably because i'm used to being done in 1/3 of the time. duh. but i'm exhausted and i haven't even finished the lesson plans yet.
what will next week look like? why did i do this during the summer? why am i asking you all of these questions?
odds are that i burn out halfway through next week and do some serious pruning of curriculum.
also, i've all but decided to just buy the books sonlight recommends and continue using the curriculum-website-that-shall-not-be-named for history and language arts. something about it being what we're used to and actually pretty good and also free. but new books are always a plus. i'll just need to buy a new bookshelf.
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I can tell you where to buy bookshelves!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, summer is the best time try new things. You can give it a trial run and add and prune to your heart's content.
The real question is:
ReplyDeleteBig ideas on a Thursday? You can't have big ideas on a Thursday. Unless, of course, it's the first of the month. But it wasn't. You are blowing my OCD brain right now by starting new things on a Thursday.