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we took the summer off. there is much craziness here, so i figured we may as well.
now - i am excited and looking forward to starting school again. the projected start date for us is Aug. 31st.
when are you starting your new year?
anything you are looking forward yo?
still stuff you need to decide on or purchase?
anything you are doing radically different?
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That is our start date too. We are all pretty excited about the coming year. All kinds of good stuff in store!
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I'm thinking oct. 31st  really the thought of being organized has me overwhelmed .
maybe by mid sept I'll be ready . will I ever be ready ? I've 4 grown children now out in the big world and I still fall into am I gonna do ok . what should I teach , what if I mess up.
I mean I've already been there done that why don't I just get it is going to be ok ?
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I think I pegged our start date as the 19th of August.
I figure we'll get in a week and a half before the county fair around Labor Day weekend. We'll be there every day! Then a day to recover from fair and back at it again in September.
I was "planning" some stuff for dd(1st grade) while the kids were painting this afternoon. I was wondering why--I make plans and they just never work the way I want them too.
This is the first year we have taken some of the summer off. I am nervous. I am counting and trying to fit in our travels, house guests, and 175 days of "school" in our 2009-2010 year-starting in August. It doesn't appear to be working out  This is the first year I am doing this. I usually go year round and just do school when we don't have house guests(really, this place can be Motel 6 some times)or are away. I am doing a "study" to see if we can get in a normal school year--day-wise. I don't have too, I am just curious, especially since I am considering taking summers off.
I am nervous because ds is in 6th grade! I never thought I'd be doing this homeschool thing this long! I am nervous because dd doesn't learn the same way as ds and is a whole different personality(A little more difficult). She isn't reading, or even interested, and I am trying to relax, but....
I am excited because I hope to be successful teaching dd to read, love to learn, tie her shoes(why does she tend to slip on's and croc's?), and start first communion prep. I am excited because ds can't wait to do Winston Grammar again . I am excited to finish Sonlight Core 3 history--with some modification because it was just too much reading last year.
I have no purchases to make.We will finish what we bought last year. I am hoping to get on some rabbit trails. Ds wants to shadow a vet. I am going to call soon and hope for a positive response.
I am excited because I have another year of my kids home with me.
Wishing everyone a wonderful new school year....
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*when are you starting your new year?
Eh...I purchased all my materials for the coming year back in April, sure of what I wanted to do for next grades. I planned to start Aug. 24.
*anything you are looking forward to?
Then discovered CLAA and registered the kids for a couple classes. Very excited about this program, although paradoxically it makes me feel sort of superfluous. CLAA is not a "parents are the best teachers" sort of program. But I like the way they teach Latin and the kids have enjoyed the online catechism class.
*still stuff you need to decide on or purchase?
Then I had a crisis of patience and confidence...and now I am planning on enrolling the kiddos in public school but continuing with CLAA with the "extern student" option.
Still mulling this over. I have three weeks until the school offices open for registration. The kids are very excited about the prospect of going to school again--although cautiously so, since I told them it wasn't certain at all.
*anything you are doing radically different?
When I told my husband I was thinking of putting the kids back in ps, he couldn't believe it, seriously thought I was joking. But over the past couple weeks has come to see the possible benefits too. Mainly: a less stressed wife. So we're waiting and seeing and praying constantly.
Loathe to "post reply" but here goes...
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We plan to start up august 3rd. I'm a actually very excited to be:
starting high school w/ my oldest
doing SOTW 1 again with my younger ones (have great memories of it with the older)
looking forward to LOTS of hands on science
and I'll be doing a sonlight core for the first time
we're all very excited! 
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I plan to fully start by Sept 1 but have a few practive runs before that. I am planning to tell dc that we are starting Aug 24. Since we have never done "school" before, I hope to make the first week short and fun days and to build toward Sept 1. (I think of it as rehearsals)
Then by Sept. 1, I hope to begin full lesson plan.
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Hugs LeeAnn! It is such a hard decision!
As for our upcoming school year, we are already on week 3!
I'm bragging now, because chances are when the rest of you are on week ten, I'll have only achieved week 5, LOL!! As in, we are already taking a week off after only three weeks of work. I'm blaming it on summer. 
I'm looking forward to this coming year - it will be interesting to see how my different personalitied kids take to the new curriculum.
still stuff you need to decide on or purchase?
Some little things - and we are always tweaking around here, so whatever comes up over the next year!
anything you are doing radically different?
We went from being longtime Sonlight tweakers to being new Oak Meadow Tweakers.
Fun questions, Laura!
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start??...sooon, very soon, (after I finish de-cluttering the school area and print out and file a bunch of things to get ready)
Martha! GMTA!
I am doing SOTW again with my little guys. We had so much fun with it with the older ones...and I am doing lots of reading with them including books to cover Great Bible Kids (Ascension Press)and the 3rd catechesis album from Moira (making this project like mad...it's taking me awhile! but oh, so worth it!)
I am having a series of meetings with my (almost 14)ds and twin 15yo to plan out at least the first half of the school year and get them making their own planners...
( I need to figure out how to make this look pretty and organized)
We are doing lots of hands-on Science this year too...we are continuing with what we were doing for kitchen science and moving on to botany and astronomy...not necessarily in that order...we are going to hit lots of science units this year. We want to keep it fun and interesting here! (without me looking like)
We are writing a lot more this year..and this means more for my highschoolers and my middles 4-5th grade.
...I shalt not get nervous...I CAN do this...
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It took me a good 3 minutes of sipping coffee and staring at the screen to figure out GMTA must mean Great Minds Think Alike 
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Martha wrote:
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I do this with every single acronym on here. When I first got online, it took me *forever* to figure out HTH and NAK.
Start date???
Ay.
We are starting **late** this year! Crazy busy summer with house projects/family weddings/etc and dh is leaving sometime in September (we think) for 6 months, so.... I'm thinking right around September 28? Maybe later? 
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Starting date: all of my plans revolve around my upcoming biopsy. I have two options: if the results are benign (which is what the statistics say, so I am going with this,) then we will be leaving in the beginning of Sept. for a road trip to Ontario to visit my parents. We will be gone for the month fo Sept and a bit into Oct. I am hoping to do school while we are gone but I don't know how practical that hope is. If the biopsy results are malignant then I will have to have surgery and I don't have a clue how that is going to play out. I am not allowing myself to go there, though, as I am sticking with the stats. I guess I could have just initially have answered this question with "I don't know."
Looking forward to: doing unit studies for the entire year. We started learning this way in the spring but I am excited to have a whole year of unit studies. Also, my oldest and I are planning on having more literature diecussions this year. I am really excited about this, as is my dd.
I have all of my supplies and books, so whenever we start, I will be ready.
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We're moving in 2 weeks to Ohio (WOOHOO!!!!)  so we're starting Sept. 8th. That's late for us. We usually start mid-August.
I've already ordered all our curriculum and had it delivered here before our move so we could be ready to start on the 8th. Nothing radically different here this year:
Teaching Textbooks
TRISMS
IEW & Fix-It
Daily Grams
Physical Science
Henle Latin
Didache
preschool stuff for our 4 year old
probably continue Taekwondo when we find a new place
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***when are you starting your new year?
We started yesterday. July 27
***anything you are looking forward to?
Sort of. My daughter is trying Apologia science so I'm interested to see how that goes. I'm mostly looking forward to getting back into a rhythm after 7 weeks off. I'm excited to see what the children decide to do for activites, I think there is going to be changes this fall.
***still stuff you need to decide on or purchase?
I think I have everything but sometimes I add things later or find out that I forgot something. I think I need some fun stuff for my 4 year old.
anything you are doing radically different?
We are trying a catholic curriculum this year. I'm excited and scared. It will be different for us. I wish we would have started there but alas hindsight is always 20/20, right? One thing I've already figured out is the books aren't perforated so we aren't going to be quite as portable. :(
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We're starting August 24th, when DH's college starts back up.
I purchased all of my stuff about a month ago.
Our plans are way more involved this year. For kindergarten we just did a little math and reading two to three days a week for a about 30 minutes, but now I have daily plans for First Grade. It started with my DD asking to do science projects, which is soooo outside my comfort zone so that required me to plan it out or I would easily skip it. Then I tried to come up with more activities to fit her learning style (Tactile-Kinesthetic), which is again outside my comfort zone.
Then I decided to throw in some logic and introductory history, and then we decided not to enroll her in RE classes at our parish...so add RE/FHE preparation to the list.
I'm still trying to keep each day at no more than an hour, and I've tried to build in some flexibility. But I'm nervous about how some things are going to work out; I know we may have to do some tweaking.
The good news is that we've done a mini-session over the summer of reading review activities...and I think I've hit a new rhythm for our days.
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We started on July 1st. New this year are
Writing With Ease (with sheets written out by Mom HWT-style)
First Language Lessons
actual history for this child--We are doing a very, very simple American history study with lots of dvds and picture books and a few field trips
workboxes
WWE and FLL are working well so far. He couldn't handle anything more intense or difficult. Workboxes are mostly an investment in the future although I think he likes having his homeschool day visible and watching his work disappear. As for history, we'll see.
Tomorrow we go to talk to Father about my son having his FHC this year. Now that is a big deal!
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when are you starting your new year?
We're starting on Aug 31st too, though the first week will be really laid back, because we have multiple dr. appts that week.
anything you are looking forward yo?
Getting back to business! We had a super relaxed year last year due to my being pregnant and exhausted, and then having a newborn in NICU. It was fine for the boys, but dd really seemed to suffer academically from so much time off. I promised her that this year we'd be more structured and she's really looking forward to that. I just hope that the baby will cooperate! I'm also looking forward to using some "real" curriculum. I've been putting my own together for years, but I'm tired and need someone else to do the work for me. I'm using History Odyssey Middle Ages 2 with dd, SOTW 2 and Activity book with the twins. We're using grammar/spelling from CHC, MUS Beta and Delta, 106 Days of Creation Studies & Considering God's Creation for science. And the highlight of dd's year is going to be Learn to Write the Novel Way. She wants to be a writer when she grows up, so she's very excited about writing a novel. We may even look into getting it published.
still stuff you need to decide on or purchase?
Nope, I've ordered everything, and I'm just waiting for the science books to come for the twins.
anything you are doing radically different?
Well, aside from using premade curriculum, we're also doing a very modified form of the workboxes. I'm very much looking forward to being more organized.
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Well... last week didn't go very well, but this day went GREAT and I'm hoping for more days like that.
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I'm trying for Latin immersion. I won't come anywhere near it in actuality but I figured it would be fun to try.
My other plan or goal is not to spend any money on curriculum. I am trying to use only things we already have, or free things. So far, so good. The internet is a great resource.
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We started yesterday. This week is 1/2 days of review material, largely because I'm still waiting for some material to be delivered. Next week I'm hoping to start "officially".
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