As I sit here typing this, my first-grader is taking here course exam for math, courtesy of the Good and Beautiful curriculum. This was our first year homeschooling, and being the excitable person that I am, we started at the very beginning of August. Thus, our homeschool year is wrapping up now, at the end of April. It was such a beautiful year, friends. I had an inkling that homeschool would be a good fit for us and boy was I right. I feel so thankful to be able to tuck the memories of this year into my heart and I feel confident that my daughter’s year was everything I hoped it would be.

For our family, taking the entire twelve weeks of summer break off would be a problem. We all crave a little structure to our day and my goal is to foster a love of learning, beyond the conventional school years. As my second oldest moves into kindergarten this summer, my plan at this point is to do three rotations of a themed learning week and three weeks off. So far I have two themed weeks planned: an in-depth study on Mars and a week-long study of famous artists. In the off-weeks, I created a Summer bingo for the girls to complete (Free to you at the bottom of this post, if you’re interested.)

I’ll do an in-depth post reviewing and detailing all the curriculum we used this past year, but for now, I’m thankful to share that we did it! First grade is (almost) in the books.