Hi,Guest wrote:Hello everyone! My name is Amy, this is our first year using MFW and we are really enjoying ECC, I feel like I have finally found what works for us! I am teaching three kids ages 8, 11, and 12.
We started ECC the end of September, but here it is January and we are week 7! Iif we continue on at this rate without taking any breaks we wont be done until August! So in other words we wont be able to have a summer break.
Anyone else behind like me, and if so what do you do, just continue on or end everything in summer and resume in the fall, or just wrap it all up in june and start the next study (CTG) in the fall. Any ideas?
Thanks
Amy
We're pretty "behind" as far as the lesson plans are concerned, too, and this is not a first for me. We've moved twice and had a baby in the last twenty-four months, which has made keeping a consistent schedule very hard.
As long as you're reading good books with the kids and engaging them in in learning activities during your "down" times, I wouldn't worry too much. I'm sure a month with the family at a cabin this fall gave them wonderful opportunities to experience God's creation in ways seatwork never could.
I would get as much done through the summer as you can. We've done school two summers in a row now, although we back off the pace a little.
I wouldn't skip the end of ECC, though. It's such a good program, and there is so much fun stuff to do. We're in the year 4 pilot now, and I'm looking forward to going back to do ECC again with my younger ones in a couple of years. If you don't get done with ECC even until the end of September, there's really no harm. Homeschooling never really stops anyway.
Hope that helps!
God bless,
Erin