7th grade begins

Oh my gosh! I can't believe that Bean is in 7th grade already! We are starting our 7th year of homeschooling. It has gone by so much faster than I ever expected it to do.

One of my major goals for this school year is to help Bean to look at an assignment for the week and break it down into daily chunks. I figure this will help her when she gets to college and the professor tells her she has 8 weeks to read Don Quixote--this way she'll know how to break that massive book down into manageable chunks. We spent about 1 1/2 hours today planning out all her work for the week. Hopefully, subsequent weeks won't take as long to figure out, but we decided we should move "planning time" to Sunday afternoons so that, on Monday morning, she can just buckle down to work. Once we planned out all the activities for the week, I told Bean that the schedule was hers -- time for her to take ownership of the responsibility of making sure the work gets done each day. She can work the subjects in any order she chooses, as long as she gets everything done. She chose to start out with Spanish.

I'll check back in later with an update on how the rest of the day went, but so far, so good!!

TTFN~