Sounds like Wondertime's uncertainty about the length of their welcome in NZ, has been resolved, and happily. I wonder how that came about. I'll have to ping them for details.
We started in on Stevenson's "The Sun's Travels" today. I love his stuff. It's so deliciously flowery, yet precise, and to hear it come out of my 2- and 5-year-olds' mouths is just priceless.
Here's a tentative outline for our first actual homeschooling schedule:
reading
- 30 min assigned / day, 5 days / wk; do a related notebook page
- 30 min “free” / day, 7 days / wk- 1 short poem / 2-3 verses of a longer poem/wk
- introduce Sunday
- practice daily
- do a notebook page early in the week
- recite Saturday
handwriting
min 2 pp. 5-20 min / day, 5 days a week
math
min. 1 lesson (2pp.), 30 min / day, 5 days/wk
science
- fun with critters (sea monkeys, ant farms, clear-skinned frogs, farm camp, others)
- related library reading, crafts, activities, and field trips
