I’ve been bad, real bad. I have been off playing. It finally arrived. We got some fall weather, even if it is only for 2 days. Okay, well I have been doing a bit more than that and its almost time to let you in on the secret I have been holding in too. I won’t make you wait much longer. Don’t hate me, but its coming soon.
One BIG thing happening this week that I have been holding in and that has me so OVER the top that I am not sure if I can sit still long enough to tell you is that FINALLY I get to have the graduation party for Mr. Senior 2013. Because I am not a whiner and always, always prefer to focus on the positive I can tell you now that my summer was a bit more emotional than I let on. I kept thinking anytime now we could have what I planned for so long, but it just didn’t happen. Oh sure, he graduated because he finished the credits that I had planned, but the hubby was so sick in the hospital and no one felt like a party. Other things were more important in May and June.
The heart problems with the Mr. came back to haunt us and everything was put on hold. It’s just so hard to look at hubby (I know I say this all the time, but the guy looks great) and think he is a heart patient at such a young age, but we are fighting genetics. Its like trying to change the color of your eyes. He knows he will have problems, but you just do the best you can.
Too, I am not just saying this but don’t you think that our homeschool kids are just the best sometimes? Sure we have problems with rebellion attitude and oh yes they are trying to find their adult voice, but every minute spent with my teens have been precious.
Mr. Senior 2013 just stepped in and stepped up as he is helping us to run the business at the moment. I always thought he would sprout his wings and flutter and he has, but on line college has been a real life saver now as we continue to need him. Maybe because of how hard it has been this past summer, it really has me counting my blessings.
Besides, who else besides us doesn’t think its weird to have a graduation party in fall?
I promise to share all the pictures and ideas after we finish celebrating this week.
Homeschool Memorization Tracking & Planning
Before I get too off track, I wanted to share this form that I have been working on also. I finally, I think anyway, have it perfect to my liking. You know I don’t release a new form even if it means taking longer because I like to use them for a while and then change them if needed.
I did end up changing this one a bit as I went back to look at some of my lesson planning pages to see what else I wanted to add. At the top under Types of Memorization, I forgot about music, so I added that too. I went ahead and changed V = verses to B for Bible because this is more broad and can cover anything we want our children to memorize about the Bible.
I know P = Poetry is language arts but the reason I made it separate is because poetry is a major reason a lot of use memorization. L = Language Arts/Grammar is a broad category too because it can cover any types of list from foreign language to helping verbs to memorize for grammar. Keeping this area at the top a bit uncluttered and the categories broad will keep our form clean looking.
Also, I went ahead and made this both a tracking and planning form. You know I have said before planning pages ore different than tracking pages at times. So you have room to pen in the date, and check off the weeks you worked on a particular list or passage and then a place to categorize the type of memorization work done. So plan and track from this one page. It has 20 lines so that is 20 weeks of school if you are having them memorize one list or passage a week which is a good pace. But use it how you like it if you have more memorization lists you want to include as I kept the form flexible.
New Download here Memorization Planning and Tracking Form
I hope you love it, I am already loving it!
Hugs and you know I love ya,
