Monday, August 25, 2014

Week 2

This is the first day of the second week of school and my kids still are not up.  Why can't they do this on the weekends?  There are no plans to go anywhere today so I guess it doesn't really matter that they are still in bed, that's one of the beautiful things of home school.  The other is that I can change curriculum when something I like better appears on the horizon.  We do have a main curriculum we will follow this year, but the other stuff? I already decided after a week I have to have these new books too.  Really they are supplemental to the main program this year, but I fell in love with the books I found over the weekend, particularly the map section.  It uses real maps to teach the kids map skills.  One uses a map of the BART system in California to teach kids to read transit maps.  There's how to read distance on a map, landforms, actual city street maps and not just those make believe ones they use in school.  Map skills using real atlas maps.  I like it.

I think I hear movement.  Surprisingly I've actually had my coffee already.  Time for school!  Coffee before school - always.


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