A Planned Week Off

We're taking this coming week off from our lessons- sort of. It is an official week off but we're going to be reading the books from TOG2- Week 10 that we didn't last week and Camille will be doing her daily reading and ETC work but that's it.

I have a talk to prepare and article to write both about the practical uses of classical education- I'm a speaker at a homeschool group (for 45 minutes, yikes!) on February 2nd and the same talk (aren't I efficient?) will be my first article for HeartoftheMatterOnline.com where I've been asked to be Classical homeschooling column contributor. There will be a new article each month, published on the 8th. If you read this blog, I hope you'll check it out.

I have many more books (Preschool, Poetry and more history related) to sell which I'll be listing here and at the WTM Forum and hopefully I'll be able to finish selling by the end of this coming week. I also have to get Unit 2 of Year 2 (TOG) pre-planned. I'll be reading through the objectives and book lists to create an overview for each of the 9 weeks for myself. The weekend before the week, I read the books and look more closely at what we'll be doing and discussing.

The major curriculum of 3rd grade is on its way here, our order has been placed. Pushing the "Place My Order" button gives such a satisfaction! I have a list of manipulatives and add-on purchases that I'm waiting to order until I can get the curriculum in my hands- no reason to spend money where it's not needed, right? I could go crazy ordering science kits and math manipulatives but I want to be very selective in what we order.

It's been raining here and poor Jack isn't getting the exercise he's used to. I have a stir-crazy dog. I hope this week will bring Primary Language Lessons by Lingua Mater and our 3rd grade curriculum so I can get acquainted. I really love meeting new curricula, especially ones I've researched and mulled over for a long time.