Olympics

While we wait on confirmation on our official status of homeschoolers we are going to be doing random other things. We will be doing a minor unit study on the winter Olympics that I know will be including geography and probably statistics as well as P.E.

We will also be doing a bit on Valentine's Day (although not much, probably more art than anything) Presidents Day, and Mardi Gras ... hopefully I can find a King Cake around here.

We will continue doing handwriting and Bible with Jayden, and handwriting and math with Grace.

I had posted on the Heart of Dakota message boards on how to figure out how to spread them out, and the creator of HOD curriculum answered and suggested that since I'm currently doing nothing other than the basics with Grace that maybe I should do the preschool curriculum (Little Hands to Heaven) with both Grace and Julianna, along with K level right side (reading, writing, fine motor skills, math) of Little Hearts for His Glory for just Grace. Then when we finish that we would Little Hearts for His Glory with both of them with K level right side for Julianna and 1st grade for Grace... keep them together instead of separating them.... So I'm giving that a go, and so far it seems to be working well. Grace is enjoying it because there's more to school than just the workbooks now and Julianna is enjoying it because she's getting to do school again.

I'll admit... the main reason for there being an issue at all is because I got lazy and Evie got active :)

On another note, I think it has finally become habit to keep the house neat and clean. I have to make myself DO things like laundry and dishes, and I have to actually make sure the girls do their part instead of dictating chores, but I'm not behind at all and the house looks nice if I do say so myself. Well, right now while I've been making this post Evie has ripped apart napkins and strewn toys all around the floor, but for the most part I'm not embarrassed for people to stop by unannounced any more :)