I did take a little bit of time this weekend to go over school for the kids. I came to the sad conclusion that The Weaver Curriculum was a little too much for us.I went ahead and sold it on Ebay a few weeks ago. I found out that the planning involved was more than I had time for. It was a little costly to do projects with so many children as well. SO SAD! I just really enjoyed Weaver.
Ok ,what is my newest plan of school action? It is back to the old Abeka texts for most of the kids. Grant, Alan, and Elena are independent in their school so they will keep doing what they had been doing. I will take my middle group of kids (Cyrus,Nolan,Josh,Joyce,and maybe Anya if she wants to join) and group teach fourth grade Abeka history,health and science to them. I could multi grade teach from the Abeka texts I think. They will then break off into their grade level for some of their other subjects.
I think I will group Odell,Ekie,Naomi,and Anya together for a few subjects.I have a K Sonlight program I have been using for Joel and Grace that I will continue on with.I should say start back up on because I dropped the ball a month or so ago.
You might wonder why I do not include Odell,Ekie,and Naomi in with the Sonlight. Well,in truth I have wanted to work on my relationship with Grace. We do not click real well.I can be a little more task orientated and Grace can fall through the cracks some.She minds me very well but she is very serious with me. I thought we needed that special time one on one that Sonlight will give us to build a closer relationship when I am more relaxed and not driven forward by life. I will continue on with teaching my non readers how to read.
I wonder if I just make homeschooling more difficult than it really should be.It just seems hard to figure out.
On to a few other things...
I was very fussy and bossy today.I have been very cutting and mean with my words today. I even made one of my sweet children cry,really cry. I could tell I broke her kind soft spirit.She said I can make her feel like she does absolutely nothing right when I am in these moods.So true.I see her trying to please me as best as she can but it is not good enough for me when I am in such a fowl mood. My sweet child.I am glad she let me,old icky me hug her as she cried on my shoulder even though I was the source of her tears. ~sigh~ I am such a slow learner.
This evening I read this verse which I really want to set my thoughts into and ponder,and pursue in my own life. After a day like today, I sure needed a little boot in the bottom.
Esther 10:3
Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews, and held in high esteem by his many fellow Jews, because he worked for the good of his people and spoke up for the welfare of all the Jews.
Now, the thing that caught my attention was that Mordecai worked for the good of his people and spoke up for the welfare of all the Jews. He did not work for his own good,to have his own needs met.
I want to be like that with my children and Jeff. I seem to very quickly drop their needs and welfare like a hot potato and put my own selfish self first. What a timely thing for me to read tonight.
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