Curriculum

There are all types of homeschooling possible. Some people subscribe to premade curriculum and run it every day, like a classroom inside your home. Some people subscribe to the unschooling method which involves letting children learn when and how they see fit. I fall somewhere in the middle. My husband would prefer the more confined ideal of having "school" at a set time every day with desks, a chalkboard, and possibly a bell (just kidding...but maybe he isn't).

Overall I am an orderly person and thus expect to fall into a rhythm of routine and predictability. Something like wake, breakfast, showers, excursion, and then quiet and home time. Our kids are still young, requiring naps and highchairs, that our days are more defined in some ways then they will be in a few years.

Currently our daily schedule is wake, breakfast, shower, excursion, naps, art or puzzle time, dinner and bed. For our toddler/preschool curriculum I have been incorporating baking (bread and brownies are favorites), art (scissor use is big for our toddler), and city walks (talking about all of the business's and what they do is a big topic on these excursions). We tried to make our own play-doh but that turned into a big soupy mess.

In a nutshell, I am not buying any preplanned curriculum at this time. I have numerous books for art and activities amongst the preschool set, time on our hands, and lots of possibilities within walking distance (library, zoo, parks, dance and karate studios, etc).