WHEW. You'd think I'm schooling 4 with an almost 3yo and 2.5mo on the side or something. I knew things were going to be busy, but NOT THIS BUSY!!! I'm POOPED!

Here is our schedule for this fall:

Good heavens. Are you as tired as I am just looking at that? :shock:

Well, as cram-packed as it is, it has gone reasonably decent this week. The tricky part is making sure I wake the baby at 6:30 to nurse. Otherwise it just sort of throws the rest of the day off since she's not ready to go down for her nap on time.

Some other struggles we've been having are C being used to playing whenever he wants and me getting motivated to do school after naptime LOL. C is NOT crazy about having to do school pretty much all day, and wow are we working on that attitude. Ei yi yi. If he finishes something early he can take a short break, but typically he spends so much time at the beginning balking and complaining that he eats up his free time afterward. So. Working on that. ;)

We are still finishing up stuff from last year, but we should be starting into our "correct" grade level stuff in the next month or two. We use BJU HomeSat for math, reading, spelling, and English. Still love it. :smile: Oh yeah, J uses it for K4 and K5 as well. :smile: We are doing Apologia Exploring Creation with Zoology I for science, and I really think it's going to be great. We did astronomy last year, and my kiddos loved it. They have really gotten into bugs and birds lately, which is very handy since that is what Zoology I is about!

Last year we did Year 2 in Tapestry of Grace, but I got a glimpse of the Redesigned year plans and decided that is what I want. :smile: So we are doing Year 1 this year. I tell ya. So far I have felt more "together," and I think the kids have learned more in 3 days than in all of last year LOL! The classic version is great, don't get me wrong, but the redesigned is just so much easier to work with. I am SO pleased with it!!! G is doing upper grammar, so I've been having him read his assignments on his own while I read aloud to the lower grammar kids (C and L). Anything we can do together we do, but I'm trying to get him to be more independent, so I'm working with him on how to manage his time with the reading. I'll probably have to remind him this weekend that he has some things to read, but that's OK. He's still learning. :smile:

All in all, a pretty decent week. Tiring, but OK. :smile: