Getting Started...

I finally sent in our paperwork to register our school yesterday. Now I wait to see if I did everything correctly. :) Hopefully we'll officially begin school in March, as in keeping records and things. I would love it if they'd let me count the school we've done since the beginning of the year, but I'm guessing they won't.

But, because of that we are taking it slow and easy until March :) Just doing what we want to when we want to do it basically. We are focusing on Awana verses and handwriting mainly, but also reading and math.

I'm also trying to figure out a rough schedule for the next couple of years (yes YEARS) to see how I want to spread people out or combine or what I want to do with them. I really don't want to be doing the same "grade" back to back. I really want to be able to skip a year between doing the guides for each of them. But it seems the most logical way to do it would be to combine Grace and Julianna. Do the preschool program (Little Hands to Heaven) and for Grace add in Kindergarten level math, reading, and handwriting starting now until we finish it. Then do the next program (Little Hearts For His Glory) after that with both of them but doing first grade basics with Grace and K basics with Julianna. But I'm not super sure that she'll have the fine motor skills to be able to do handwriting and to write the answers in math. She struggles greatly with holding a crayon/pencil not in a fist.

I know it doesn't matter really in the long run... it'll all work out. This is just the time of year where I start planning for the next year, and I already know what curriculum we will be using, so I have to plan SOMETHING!