August is here!

I still cannot believe it. We have now hit August, which in terms of our lives means that the year is as good as over! Fall is an extremely busy, fun time of year... Mississippi State University football season tickets means that 6 weekends will be spent away from home by Matthew and at least one other person, but that person will change from weekend to weekend... Grace and Julianna will be starting soccer at the end of the month and it will go until the end of October. Then you have birthday week... then there is Thanksgiving. After that Matthew and me will be going on a cruise (hopefully, we haven't booked it yet) and then Christmas/New Years/Grace's birthday. Then we can slow down for a minute :)

I have decided that I'm not going to rush things with regards to school this fall though. We are finishing up week 31 (out of 34) in Beyond Little Hearts For His Glory with Jayden this week and will hopefully get week 32 done between now and when we leave for the beach August 22nd. That's going to be harder than it seems because Jayden is going to camp the 9th-12th from 10am until 4pm. So that's a week we will not be doing school! Then I'm hoping to finish up with Beyond by the end of September. After that we'll take a little bit of a break from curriculum... She'll have Awana for Bible, cooking for reading, math and science, card games for math, LOTS and LOTS of outside time in the beautiful fall weather, and at some point in October I will order our new reading program Drawn Into the Heart of Reading, which is also put out by Heart of Dakota. We will start Bigger Hearts For His Glory sometime in January.

Grace and Julianna will continue using Little Hands to Heaven until we finish that and they finish their current basics.... kindergarten level for Grace and preschool level for Julianna. When we finish that I will order the 1st grade level basics for Grace and K level for Julianna and we will start with Little Hearts for His Glory. That may be in January, but with Jayden starting a new guide in January I might bump them to February or March.

Now, as far as this week goes....

... finishing up unit 31 with Jayden
... still working on Charlotte's Web and Romeo and Juliet (we had company over the weekend and didn't read too much)
... still working on Psalm 117. For whatever reason it will NOT stick in my head!
... got some more great books to enjoy...

Miss Rumphius
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?
Andy and the Lion
Corduroy
Grandfather's Journey
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Mirette on the High Wire
The Snowy Day

We are having a lot of fun working through our booklist. I used booklists from Sonlight, Five in a Row, Before Five in a Row, and Ambleside Online and combined them to be able to have a great selection for the fall. We may get finished before winter though, and that's ok :)