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It is taking us a solid two to two and a half hours to get through everything in the Calvert K curriculum. And a lot of it seems like over the top repetition. I had hoped to supplement this with some religious ed and maybe start learning Spanish, but that is just too much time spent on school with a five year old! I'm not sure what to do. Mari loves it and asks me all morning when we are doing school (we are doing it in the afternoons), so she isn't anywhere near burning out, but I know I will be soon if we add much more to this. I don't know...any suggestions from Calvert pros?

We are only a week and a half into this, so I shouldn't make any judgements yet, but I'm feeling very confident about my ability to teach Mari right now. I was nervous about it at first because we do tend to rub each other the wrong way sometimes, but so far it is mostly like playing together and there has not been a single instance yet of me having to push at all. Of course, so far this stuff is way too easy for her so that might be why I've not had to push. I've looked a little more closely through the books and we'll be getting to more challenging stuff for her in about a month. This must be the famed (notorious?) Review that I've heard Calvert users lament. The first few months are just review so this must be review of the pre-K stuff and a time to help get the child settled into the routine of school. At least I hope so. Otherwise, we really should have started with first grade, not K.

Zoe wants to do school today too. I'm going to have to look and see if I have some workbooks or something to go along with todays lessons that she can do with us. Funny girl. I should pull out our FIAR stuff and do some of it with her and Luci...but that is more time spent on school. I never imagined it would take up this much time at this age.

I'm tired today and I don't really understand why. I got plenty of sleep last night. I want to get out of the house too. I feel antzy. Maybe we will go for a walk today. It is very pretty outside.

Laundry. I hate laundry. I must go do laundry now.

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There are a lot of craft type activities in this curriculum. I know kids need hands on stuff, so some is good, but Mari honestly enjoys the workbook pages and writing activities. I'm thinking we could chuck some of the arts and crafts stuff and add Spanish. And the religious ed stuff has to be added regardless...if only in the form of daily readings and prayers, something we don't do as much as we should. I had these visions of looking up the saint(s) of the day and telling the girls their stories everyday after prayers and scripture readings. I have lots of visons....

Maybe I shouldn't have shared that. :P

Hey I have a vision of getting dressed everyday....

Well, heck! One of the reasons I wanted to homeschool is so we could stay in jammies until we wanted to leave the house everyday! Isn't that why everyone homeschools?

I thought it was for the ~~slave labor~~ opportunites for learning life skills.

Yes. That too.

My son Noah told me recently that when he grew up Wednesdays were going to be pajama days at his job. Shell asked whether the boss might object. "Oh," he said, "I'll be the boss."

Well, of course he will!

Isn't that why everyone homeschools?

I'm certainly looking forward to it. ;)

I know a family that reads the life of a saint for the day over breakfast. Do you have the Prologue or something similar? They're pretty short.

I don't have the Prologue or anything similar, but I found the Prologue website and I could print it out everyday. Or a couple of days in advance might be more realistic. Good idea.