(^Okay, not quite that, yet.)
It might be because the sky is dark and the wind is howling as I write this (hey, Isaias!) or because we’ve recently gotten the kids registered for school in our new district and gotten a bevy of emails from different administrators about the coming school year, but – I have autumn on the brain. Or more specifically, I have “back” to school on the brain (although we’re not going “back” in the traditional sense).
This school year is going to look different for everyone, and I’m still working out what it’s going to look like for our family. We are getting some guidance about the school curriculum and it seems really organized and thorough – the kids will be booked up from about 9:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (which doesn’t mean Mom and Dad are off duty – we’re going to have to be actively facilitating all this distance learning). But in addition to their regular school curriculum, I have some goals for them – subjects I want to cover with them regardless of whether they’re part of the traditional curricula for kindergarten and second grade.
What I’m wondering is: do you want to read about that? Writing often helps me crystallize what I am thinking about a subject, and right now my brain is a swirling mess of schedules, nature-based homeschool programs, supply lists and ideas for topics and projects. I’m working through how I’ll balance these ideas with the school’s curriculum and my work schedule. There’s plenty of material out there about homeschool and I’m not pretending to be an expert or educate anyone, but it seems to me that as a working mom, navigating home-based education while juggling two full-time working parent schedules, I’m working through the same new-ish situation that lots of other parents are. And I’m wondering – it strikes me that this would be an interesting conversation to have, but I don’t want to post something that doesn’t interest anyone.
So – what do you think? Are you interested in what we’re planning and doing for the 2020-21 school year, or should I leave it to the homeschooling mommy bloggers?
Let me know in the comments.
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I think you should write about your distant learning schooling! I am very interested in how everyone is handling this. I am so grateful that my daughter is 3 so I can push preschool until next year, though there’s no telling what the next school year will look like. I am hopefully it will mostly be back to normal.
Thanks!! Writing helps me organize my thoughts, so this is definitely something I would like to do. I’ve often wondered what would be the “ideal” age to have something like this happen. I feel like 3 must be really tough – while you don’t have to worry about distance learning yet, I’m sure it’s hard to have a kid who really needs a lot of attention and supervision and not have care available. I hope the next school year will be back to normal, too… We all need it desperately.
I would be interested in that, but just because I love you and your family and I’m always interested in what you guys are doing. You certainly don’t have to write it FOR me since I won’t be utilizing that advice myself. 🙂
We love you too, Aunt Zan!