1st Week of Homeschooling Update

 When I decided to homeschool for the year 2023-2024 I also decided I wouldn't post so much about it on social media (Instagram/Facebook.TikTok) really giving me and my daughter a chance to find our groove before we started sharing our journey with the world.  Also, I have not totally decided if I am going to share any of our experiences on those platforms.  Not for any particular reason, but I do find when I focus on trying to create that type of content I am not focused on what is the most important & which is learning with her.

Anyway, having said that I did want to come and update my family journal/blog as a record of our homeschooling experience, for us & what little family follows my blog.

Now let's get into our first week.

We started our first week of school on August 1, 2023, which happened to be a Tuesday.  Monday I used to prep for our first week.  Which didn't really prepare me at all.  Tuesday was great, we stuck to one hour for each course that we were doing (Math, Language Arts, History, PE) and we were done with school rather quickly, but then on Wednesday I felt like we had to catch up and do all the work that didn't get done the day before since we stayed on a strict one hour schedule so then we did school until about 3 or 4 which may be typical.  I don't know, this is my first time.  So then on Thursday, we did computer game math and other subjects to give her a break from all the hard work she did the day before.

Friday was going to be a day off for us, but we did science - which was a lot of fun.  We did two experiments.  One was on the currents of the oceans and one was on the buoyancy of the water.  She enjoyed them both.

I took most of the morning before we started science to work out a better schedule that I thought was more realistic, knowing a little more about how a day should or could look for us.  Our new schedule looks like this:

Math
Language Arts
Science/History (2x)
Creative Writing/Cursive Writing (2x)
Art, PE, Computers, Music (1x)

We will give that schedule a shot for a few weeks and see how we do.  So far we love it, even though we struggled to find what works for us that first week.  I mean, I am sure people who have been homeschooling for years are still fine-tuning their schedule (right)?  I hope so.  Anyway, we love y'all, and thank you for all your support.

xoxo, Lela & Olivia

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Home School Freebie - #1

Interested in some free learning materials for your little one?  This material is a free coloring and activity book called "Get Excited About the Brain"!  We already received our copy, and Olivia is excited to learn more about the brain and mental health!

You can get yours here:  https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/get-excited-about-the-brain.  You can download a PDF version or a physical copy.

Happy Homeschooling!
xoxo, Lela & Olivia

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Homeschooling - First Post

 Well, due to many issues we were having with our school last school year, we decided to pull our daughter out of public school and start our homeschooling journey.

My son, Xander's bio mom currently homeschools her other children and she was a great help pointing me in the right direction and encouraging me to just do it, and that everything would be ok.  I still don't know what I am doing yet, but it isn't as scary as I thought it would be.

I have found tons of resources and have even now narrowed down our curriculum mostly.  I have figured out the basic subjects at least.  And despite being introverted and having anxiety (&ADHD) I am excited to go on learning field trips with her as well.

I hope to be able to share our journey on this platform in the hopes it will help out another momma (or daddy).

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