Winter Homeschool Plans

The plans for our family's winter look like this:

One day a week at a homeschool group learning thing, "co-op" if you will. A focus will be on preparation for the late March state Science Olympiad event. This will probably be my older son's last year in that competition as next year I think he'll be too busy with core academics on the high school level to have time to prep with the team for competition. My younger son is too young to compete this year.

Four weekdays will be spent at home doing homeschool lessons administered by me. A concentration on: US History, writing composition, grammar, spelling, reading literature and literature analysis and discussion and reading comprehension and math. Although I was seriously considering some online classes for winter and spring due to the new tight budget I will instead teach the lessons myself with materials we already own.

My Cub Scout will be crossing over into Boy Scouts, to his older brother's Troop. This means one weeknight appointment will no longer exist. (Yet more found time in the schedule. Hooray!)

My First Class Boy Scout son will continue working on merit badges and if all goes well, will make Star rank. He will also be doing weekend merit badge classes with groups of Scouts. Weekend camping trips will continue once a month.

Younger son will do indoor lacrosse clinics for physical fitness and skill building on weekends in preparation for travel lacrosse in the spring.

The week-long homeschool ski trip is cancelled due to budget changes due to unemployment. Ditto for the plans to do skiing once a week for two months with another group of homeschoolers. Both of my kids ski and I was contemplating taking lessons this season.

Guitar lessons for my younger son had a 2.5 month break during our too-busy and out-of-the-house autumn. We were to resume in December but are postponing due to the tight budget.

In mid-March the kid's favorite homeschool co-op resumes, a one day a week thing that I will teach at. That will be a busy second half of the month due to the Science Olympiad competition at the end of the March. That will bring us to the start of spring.

I don't know what the spring will look like as some of it is "wait and see". I'll share that with you when that next season is upon us.

The kids and I are looking forward to more time at home, more relaxation and less appointment rushing around. This schedule appears "under-scheduled" to me, so the pendulum is swinging to the extreme after being in "over-scheduled" mode all fall.

I hope my kids can keep up their good momentum with home studies compared to what they were doing for homeschool co-op homework this last fall. We'll see how that pans out.

The biggest change hopefully will be my husband finding a job. We don't yet know if that entails a move. You will certainly hear about it if we wind up moving out of state. That would be a new huge adventure for us, one we're open to should the opportunity arise.