So my best friend in Texas, another homeschooling mom with kids a little older than mine, did what she called Theme Days. She did writing games on Mondays, science experiments on Tuesdays, math games on Wednesdays, history/social studies on Thursdays, and art on Fridays. I thought "What a great idea! I should do that too!" But then I thought, "Why should I let someone else pick what I do for my theme days?" and decided I would pick and choose what we would do. And I never got around to picking and choosing, and we never did anything. After we moved here and Jack was begging for some kind of schedule, I decided it would be better to copy someone else than to do nothing at all, so we started doing her theme days, with just one modification, turning Monday into reading day instead of writing day.
Now that we've done this a few weeks, I can see that reading day is pointless, b/c we read every day, and a nature day is much more needful b/c we live in a downtown and rarely get to connect with nature. THIS is how it's supposed to be done; copying someone else is fine to start out with, as long as you're willing to make changes along the way to adapt to the needs of your family.
Is it sad that that's such a revelation for me?
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