Homeschool Registration and Communication with the Schools.

I just registered my kids with the 2012/2013 school year. I have always been very leery on doing that due to my upbringing, but I came to realize that when the children are registered with the province you get a lot of free resources and help in all kinds of areas such as, used loaner or cheap textbooks for sale.

Also if you are brave enough and get in contact with the schools they are more then willing to help in so many different areas. This will be my first year in communicating with the schools in my district and to work with them. I will keep you all posted in how it works for me. All the benefits or setbacks that I will encounter.

We will be doing a lot more hands on learning this year. A new thing for us, when we were on the road we did a lot of book learning and now that we will be at home we are going to try more hands on learning with only some textbook learning. I feel that the children will have a lot more fun in doing so. I will keep you all posted on our weekly journey. I am also planning a lot more outings for extra learning. To mention a couple; meet with local Artists, and Science Museum.

If anything this will at least be an exciting adventure to go on. :)
Hope you all enjoy. I wish you all the best in this years homeschooling year.
Wish all of you lots of fun with your kids!

Annual August Scramble

Well August has arrived again, and after a fun filled busy summer, we mothers go on our annual book ordering and schedule making scramble. If you are like me then your having the time of your life! Deciding what I will teach and getting it all organized is what I wait for all summer long. Sometimes I wonder if I'm not more excited with that then my kids are with starting school. This year I am planning on doing a few things different as to we won't be on the road all school year again, so there will be a year of more hands on activities and going out to meet other homeschoolers. Yay! I am starting a new job also, so our school hours will very day by day but more then likely it will keep things exciting. The kids are getting really pumped about pen-pals and outings this year. Haven't seen them this excited about school in awhile now. So that is a really good change.
Who's with me?
Ready for that Annual August Scramble?
Maybe your dining/living room or office already look like mine too. With all the catalogs, printables and so forth scattered around desperately trying to find a place for them?