Wednesday, August 6, 2014



    So, it has started. School has started in the Wright household. As many of you know, we are doing things a bit differently this year, and I invite you all along on this journey. It is always scary to implement "change", and this is kind of a big one around here. I have always leaned on Classical Conversations' curriculum for most of what I do, so going a different route feels strange and unknown. I am hoping some of my ideas might work, yet I know that some will massively fail. 
    I have totally revamped our curriculum and "school day" this year in an attempt to return to my original reasons for homeschooling. I want to focus on "hiding God's word in their hearts", and learning together to pray more, and love God in all we do. 

     So, what does that look like? First, I bought them all journals for Bible/prayer time. (I just got those composition notebooks). Each morning, we begin all together with a time of Bible reading and discussion. In their journal, they are writing down the passage we read, and a short summary of what was read. Obviously, I help the littles with this part, and only have them write a few key words themselves. If we come across a verse we want to memorize, we write that down as well. We are shooting for one memory verse each week for this. I have also picked a few larger Scripture passages to memorize in addition to these weekly verses. I am making posters of these to hang around the house, to help with the memorization. The first passage we are working on is the Lord's Prayer, as I am going to use that as a basis of learning HOW to pray. In the back part of our Bible journal, we have made a "Prayer Journal" section. We are writing down prayer requests and answers. 

     A few years ago, at a homeschool convention, I purchased two Bible studies by "Explorer's Bible Study." I never implemented them (remember, that is the reason for this change- never feeling I had the "time" to get beyond Math and reading skills). This year, we are doing them! For the preschooler and 1st grader, we are doing "Jesus, My Shepherd." Each day there is a short reading, and simple questions for them to answer. For the older children, we are doing "God's Perfect Plan- Exploring Bible Prophecy From Genesis to Revelation." There are verses to look up each day, and more in depth questions for them to answer.

     I am also planning on using Bible verses as copywork for handwriting. Why buy a handwriting curriculum? We will also use verses and passages for grammar work. We can parse the verses and diagram them. We can rewrite passages in our own words, using the stylistic techniques we learned in the Institute for Excellence in Writing course. (CC Essentials program)

     On top of all this Bible, of course we are still doing math, reading, and the other major subjects.We just aren't going to stress about them as much this year. They are all ahead in their work, so it will be refreshing to have a different focus. If we don't get to much history or science this year- oh well!  We will still sing our CC timeline song and history/science sentences (just at home, instead). These give them plenty of history and science education, even if all they do is sing them once in awhile this year. The older kids have already done this CC Cycle, and the littles will get it later when we are back.

     There you have it, that is the plan. I invite you to follow this blog and our journey. I am praying that I see an amazing move of God on my children's hearts this year~

1 comment:

  1. So excited for you all! Blessed to be able to follow your journey!

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