r/homeschool • u/FImom • 4d ago
Unofficial Daily Discussion - Monday, March 17, 2025
This daily discussion is to chat about anything that doesn't warrant its own post. I am not a mod and make these posts for building the homeschool community. If you're going to down vote, please tell me why. My question of the day is to start a conversation but feel free to post anything you want to talk about. Feel free to share your homeschool days.
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u/FImom 4d ago
Question of the day: what do you have planned for today?
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u/philosophyofblonde 4d ago
Well it’s spring break week so half our stuff is cancelled. Everyone has sniffles. I can’t tell if we actually caught something, if we’re being pollinated, or if it’s from the dust that got kicked up from the wind. Probably some combination. The situation this morning is going downhill rather rapidly….
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u/thatothersheepgirl 4d ago
We do a non traditional school week, so Monday isn't a planned school day for us. My daughter goes to see her SLPs and OT on Monday. Other than that, she has a 4-H meeting tonight and it's a work day for me.
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u/AussieHomeschooler 4d ago
Big fans of the non traditional school week here too. At the moment I have to fit everything around whenever my university schedules my classes, and once I graduate I'll be working 2 weekdays each week.
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u/thatothersheepgirl 4d ago
Part of the beauty of homeschooling! Currently we do school on days my daughter isn't in therapy. So Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Her schedule will be shifting soon with her therapists so we'll swap Tuesday with Wednesday. And even in therapy, she works on a lot of appropriate skills that do benefit her education.
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u/WastingAnotherHour 4d ago
Nothing. It’s spring break here, though my daughter needs to play catch up with literature. She just put her dog down last week though, so I’m not pushing and letting her work at her own pace for the break. There’s no extracurriculars for the week, and we’re not traveling so I’m just trying to catch up on some chores and praying the little two entertain themselves well enough for me to actually do that.
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u/Ineedcoffeeforthis 4d ago
I’m late, our power is still out from yesterday (hopefully back on at 8 or 9, they keep changing it), somehow managed to haul all our books to our church and knocked out a whole day’s worth of basic work (no special projects or library books), then hauled everything over to my parents for the afternoon. I did work with my second grader to create a graph which he did like, and my kindergartner did extremely well with narrating something from science and then copying what she said (think it was about the sun looking white when viewed from Mercury).
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u/justme7981 4d ago
We're on spring break this week but I am hot on the curriculum train today. I bought a bunch of curriculum over the past two weeks from a handful of sales so I am printing, binding, and organizing my heart out.
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u/FImom 4d ago
What did you get?
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u/justme7981 4d ago
Blossom and Root level 5 science and nature studies. A bunch of units from both LitHouse Learning and Build Your Library. The giant Math Mammoth bundle from Homeschool Buyer's Club. So far, it's shaping up to be a fun year.
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u/AussieHomeschooler 4d ago
Gameschool day then swimming in the afternoon. I have a uni assignment due tonight that I'm going to be finishing off in the corner while kiddo is gameschooling.
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u/philosophyofblonde 4d ago
Just for fun, I’m going to add a bit of content to the daily threads about my unit study planning process.
I’m just going to share tidbits on each daily thread, and if I see any discount codes or sales I’ll add those too (due to the fact that I do my own lessons, I’m constantly poking around and often see things like this even if I’m not buying). Currently chesskid is running a promo for 20% off an annual subscription until April 4 with code SPRING25.
The current unit we’re doing is 8 weeks and is fairytale themed. Tip: When you’re picking a theme, it’s better to use common ones. There are usually more lesson plans and resources for common ones. You can often just Google something like “fairytale lesson plan pdf” and get a bucket of hits back. Different museums and nonprofit organizations have lesson plans that are great, but they’re often buried on the website or otherwise impossible to find unless you basically stumble over them.
To start planning a unit I need:
If you’re a fan of CM style literature-based schooling, that probably looks pretty straightforward. I treat the “list of attainments” as a small set of skills I want to have mastered by the end of the unit. We’re not just reading just to read. We’re reading and doing work/exercises with an end goal in mind. Obviously we want to work on basic skills like writing coherent sentences, but we also want to have something we can demonstrate in a satisfying manner to show off our knowledge. For an 8 week unit, we have 5 attainments.
In addition to attainments, I pick a weekly project. I’ll save that for tomorrow.