Ditching The Lesson Plan

I don't know why it is so hard for me to stick to the lesson plan in December. Maybe it's the holiday spirit. Maybe it's the busyness. Maybe I am just tired.

I stress out about whether or not we are learning what we need to learn. Especially for Amanda. Is she on target with her peers? Is she behind?

Due to her vision issues, she struggles at times with reading. She is doing do much better, she just needs a onfidence boost. I need to move her up in math as well. After the first of the year we'll go forward.

Right now we are ditching the lesson plan. We are reading Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and doing a unit study related to that. We'll bake, and learn about Christmas in other countries.

Today we are cooking. We'll work on multiplication a bit. We'll do some fun writing.

Katie is plugging along with her Switched on Schoolhouse program. She has finally embraced it, and has realized she has to actually put some effort into it.

I am hoping that ditching the lesson plan will make some memories for the girls, that they will cherish when they are older. That's what's really important, isn't it?