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Calendar September 3, 2010 | Posted by MaryAlice

As you all know, my family will not be going “back” to school this year, since we homeschool, but we did take the summer off and we will be starting school again next week.  We have found it is easiest on the kids if we keep our schedule similar to that of the rest of America, since most of our friends and many of our activities are on a traditional school schedule.

To that end, we are finishing up our vacation with a stay at our family homestead in Northern New York and we visited the wonderful, tiny, village library yesterday, where we read this wonderful school themed book.  The “one hundred days of school” project is dear to my heart because my mother always did it with her class and because PT’s “one hundred pieces of pasta” poster was one of my favorite parts of his time at kindergarten.  This book has wonderful family themes and subtly deals with the complicated emotions of our little kinders, all while reviewing ordinal numbers.  This is such a great book that I am going to buy it so that we can enjoy it throughout the year.

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Category Categories: Education & Homeschool  |  Comments Leave a reply

  • Anonymous

    Thanks, MaryAlice. We’ll investigate whether our local library stocks this one. SO glad you’re enjoying your farm vacation!

  • Sullibe

    I need help! Through the course of several circumstances, some unfortunate, my husband and I have decided to pull our two oldest children (9 and 5 1/2) out of the Catholic school they attend and I am going to quit my job and begin homeschooling, in two weeks. I’m very happy with this decision, but I’m very nervous and rather intimidated. I’m wondering if any of you homeschooling builders and others could enlighten me on typical daily routines, what types of curriculum you use and why, and any other secrets you have that make the experience go by as smoothly as possible. And in the interest of full disclosure, I also have a 3 year old and 7mth old. Thanks.

  • Anonymous

    Sullibe, we are also homeschooling this year out of necessity while we travel for a year for my husband’s dissertation research. We have a fabulous Catholic school setup back home in Philadelphia, and are homeschooling to keep my 5 1/2 year old up to speed so that she can re-enter for first grade. I just want to say you’ve come to the right place to ask about routines and curriculums! The 4 veteran homeschooling moms here absolutely rock at what they do. Just what I’ve (reluctantly : )) picked up by listening to them has made our experience as simple as I could have imagined. Good luck and God bless!