Mommy Moment – Looking Ahead

Last week I started writing a weekly review post for Homeschool Creations Preschool Corner Friday meme. It really struck me after I’d gotten my pictures together that we really don’t fit well with that group any longer. I’ve always enjoyed reading the posts, but I’ve felt a little out of step with the group for some time, even after Jolanthe added the Pre-K element to it. I know that part of the feeling for me is that Tornado Boy turned 5 this weekend. The other part is that he is starting his official homeschool journey in the next month, essentially as a 1st grader. I’m not sure if there is an existing weekly wrap-up for early elementary kids or not. If anyone knows of one, I’d love a link.

I’ve been surprised by many little things that Tornado Boy has done over the past couple of weeks. A lot of these little things are really making me question my plans for the fall. Some of the things that have happened:

• He read sdrawkcaB as backwards without flinching.
• He jumped on his trampoline and skip counted by 10 to 500 without anyone asking him to. I’d never heard him go higher than 100 before.
• He’s figured out that multiplication is adding the same number to itself many times and he is verbally playing around with the concept a lot.
• He’s starting to ask me words in Spanish that aren’t in the Little Pim videos. We’re using an online English-Spanish dictionary with audio entries to help answer the questions.
• He’s asked to learn French and Chinese.
• He’s asking to listen to specific classical music pieces by name and composer. I know that part of this is coming from Little Einsteins, but it’s interesting that he can name pieces that I can’t.

We’ve already covered more than a standard Kindergarten curriculum in the past year. Since we have the luxury of time, I’m really wondering if I shouldn’t just pitch the curriculum that I had picked out (with the exception of Five in a Row) and really let Tornado Boy lead this year and see where it takes us. I really also should consider finding a foreign language class of some sort for him – that is so not my forté.

I feel like no matter what I plan for the school year, I have no idea where TB is going to be developmentally even six months from now. So anyway, I’m feeling a tiny bit lost at the moment, but we’ll work through it!