If you are thinking about buying, now is the time!

If I'd have known they were going to have a sale, I would have waited. I guess they don't tell you just for that reason, huh? lol.

Anyway, they are having a GREAT sale at My Fathers World!!

Click here to find out more.

I would buy now if you are able. This is a considerable amount off of the original price & remember they are all new books! Who wants to buy used materials when you can get the real deal at a reasonable price?

If you decide to take advantage of this offer, let me know.

It's here, It's here!!

Yaahooooo!!!!!! Look what I got! I'm telling you, I felt foolish with excitement last night thinking about getting "THE box" today. And, the entire day today I was looking out the window afraid we'd miss it. Riigght.

I'm off to soak up the teachers manual now. :-D

Yay! It's on it's way!!

It's official. I've finally ordered! I'm expecting to get it in the mail by next week sometime.

How exciting!!

A few supplies...

We bought a few school supplies while the prices were still good this weekend. We didn't get any craft stuff yet. (well, besides the sand) I figured I'd wait until I get the curriculum, then I'll get it all at once. Anyway, the kids and I set up our pencil boxes today. (yes, I got one too!) I figure it should keep us at least a little organized so that we all know who's pens belong to who. My two year old just got some crayons and colored pencils to go in hers.

To those of you using the curriculum, I found these "world-Famous places flash cards" at Walmart. I figure we'll use them somehow. They were on clearance for $2. AND, I had heard about those passports that everyone found in the scrapbooking section of walmart by Jolee. Nope, not my Walmart. Oh well. Maybe I'll try an actual scrapbooking place.

Anyway, we're on our way to officially starting around here!

In case you're wondering...

It looks like the big purchase date will be next Friday.

I can't wait!!!

I am hoping that once I get it back and get organized we'll be able to start on the first day of October. Not too bad, right? We'll see how it all works out...

Our Schedule

I've sent in my homeschooling intent letter to the district. All my son's friends went back this past Monday. I've been drooling over that new curriculum (My Fathers World) I found and fell in love with. And, we've set up a new fall schedule. We're kicking it into gear around here.

Let's see if I can post my new schedule...

8:00Wake up
8:30Pickup room, Make bed, laundry, p/u bathroom
9:00Breakfast
9:30Cleanup Table,living room and KitchenSwitch Laundry
10:00Bible Time
10:302yo "School"/7yo Math
11:00English
11:30Read Aloud
12:00Lunch
12:30Cleanup Table,living room and KitchenLaundry
1:00History/Science
1:30History/Science
2:00Art/Music
2:30blog/nap/read
3:00Chore Time
3:30Chore Time
4:00Chore Time
4:30Book Basket with Kids
5:00Daddy's Home Prep
5:30Dinner
6:00-8:00Daddy Time
8:30Family Bible Study
9:00Kids in Bed

This schedule is in anticipation for when I get MFW, but we've been able to work it until about noon and so far it's working great! The afternoon has been mostly "free play" until we get our new curriculum. In the morning, I have my youngest play with blocks or her little people while I read outloud. In case you are wondering our Math is Horizons workbook 1 and our English is First Language Lessons. For our Bible time right now we have just been reading through Psalms and talking about it. It's going well, even when I'm not completely up for doing all my chores, I usually can make it through homeschool time because all I really have to do is sit to read and discuss whatever it is they are learning. Oh, and for my youngest daughter (who is EXCEPTIONALLY bright!) I just do a workbook about colors with her. She already knows her colors, but we write her name on the top and she practices her coloring. After each page she puts a sticker on. Then we count to 5. For some reason she always skips 5, she'll say "1,2,3,4,6!" so I made up a little song to help her learn it. Songs help so much. She knows how to spell her name just because I made up a little catchy tune for it. (oh kay, so her name is only 3 letters, but I'm pretty proud of her!) I can tell she's going to be fun to homeschool, she catches on so easily!Anyway, we're in the school time mode. I'm really looking forward to this year!!


{by the way, I also wanted to mention, this is one of the first times I've made a schedule and my times are pretty accurate. I know it seems strange that I have a whole half hour devoted to waking up, but there's always something to do during that time. Helping hubby or 2yo, or trying to get my son awake. It's been interesting (at least before noon) we have been on track even by the clock! The evenings are not so good though. Bedtime last night for even the kids was 12:00! I know, I'm a terrible mom. My husband is such a late nighter that it's hard to get focused earlier. My goal is 9:00, but if hubby doesn't get home until late, I allow the kids to stay up in order to spend some time with Daddy. Hey, that's one of the greatest parts about homeschooling in my opinion!}

Welcome to our Homeschool!

Hello. I'm so glad you've come to visit us here at our home. This blog is set up to share and journal all of our fun that we have in our homeschool. We have just found a wonderful curriculum called My Fathers World and we will be working this year through Exploring Countries and Cultures (Or ECC for short). We are SO excited!!

The children in this home are:
"SuperKid" 7 1/2 Year old boy
"Pickles" 2 year old girl
(and we have a baby coming in February!!)

We will be starting this year a little later than we'd like. I'm expecting to begin sometime in October. To top it off, we will be having a baby and possibly moving into a new home this year. (Not to mention that this is my first official year following a set schedule!) I expect that we may be a little behind coming into the summer. I am just happy that I am going into this year with this expectation, so that I won't be bummed when the year end comes.

Anyway, I hope that you join us as we travel the world this year!!!