A New Season

It's 2018 and we have a new kindergartener! That's all four kiddos in. I cannot believe we have arrived here. That means this is year seven in this house. Homeschool has been such a blessing in our lives and will be ongoing as we are entering a new season of uncertainty.
Daddy has chronic liver disease and it is touching our whole lives, but the joy of homeschool is we can easily flow into each season and go wherever we need to be without disturbing our family wholeness.
We are changing up the curriculum this year, and I do think that every few years this happens as we are making new goals and searching out creative ways to learn. We have always been an eclectic family, taking pieces of Montessori and traditional learning styles, and this year we are adding in some Charlotte Mason-esque flows.
The words I have chosen for focus this year are creativity, exploration, and simplify. We want to head into this year opening our eyes more to what we can explore as a family, and take time for all of it. That means less workbooks and more notebooks. Getting outside and researching in a more rounded way. And there is always Math-U-See. Anyways, this is a gathering of my thoughts for the year as I head into first report....