But if you’d like to hear more about how exams worked in the PNEU and how we can apply those principles and practices as mother-teachers, or if you have lingering questions you are hoping I might be able to help with, this webinar will provide you the opportunity to either get the footing you need to get started or enliven your understanding and enrich your experience. I’ve been doing lots of research into this area over the past year and am excited to be able to share some of the things I’ve learned in this unique format. I’m hoping it will be a helpful and encouraging resource for those that attend!
Coming up after that, I have some posts for this month already ready and waiting in my drafts folder: What We’re Reading for May, our Morning Basket plans from the last term of the year, spring nature study notes, a description of how we do Summer School, and more about our homeschool community’s Shakespeare Festival.
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I look forward to listening to your podcast at The Mason Jar! We're doing term exams this week for Year 3. It's going really well! I'm also already in planning mode for Year 4! We've got two big jumps for Year 4: One, the addition of Plutarch and Shakespeare that Year 4 adds, plus beginning written narrations. And two, more independent reading…which means more pre-reading for me. So I am getting ready to start on the pre-reading in the next few days so that I have extra time to get things prepared ahead of time for Year 4. My goal is to get as much pre-read as possible before we start Year 4. 🙂 Plus, with this change from Year 3 to Year 4, our school routine will change some since my daughter will be moving to more independent work. So I'm working on a new format for an independent schedule plus my own schedule to work from for both her independent work and the work we do together.
Karen
Yes, I found that a lot of foresight in thinking through how those transitions might go so that I could tweak our schedule accordingly helped a lot in that step from Year 3 to 4. I mean, I have to make changes to our schedule every year, but that particular move to more independent work required a bit more out of me to make sense of the changes in our routine. I hope your planning goes smoothly! I haven't gotten to plan in earnest yet but I'm embarking on that this coming week! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Karen!
Celeste, you're amazing!
The webinar sounds amazing! I came by to say hi and that I had to catch my breath after reading your updates!!!! Wow, you have lots going on! As always, thanks for sharing what goes on your homeschool, it's an amazing inspiration and I've learned a lot from you! And happy birthday to your son! My oldest is turning 7 this summer, so exciting! With God's grace this May our family will start a new chapter in our lives as the sale of our apartment is completed and we keep hunting for a new home!
Mariana, that's so exciting! We moved into this home almost six years ago, and it has been the longest we have ever lived in a place by far — we moved every year or two years before that. I am so happy to be settled and not to have to pack and move (especially while pregnant, which I seemed to be EVERY time!), BUT I miss the excitement of somewhere new a tiny bit. 😉 To have a home sold certainly IS exciting, though, and I wish you all the best in your house hunt!
Thanks for your kind words!
Thanks Celeste! And I hope your planning goes smoothly as well as you get ready to begin that this coming week.
Karen