To be honest, sometimes it just seems too overwhelming! There are just too many areas to consider in our children’s education! Once I think the reading progress is ok, then I figure the physical education seems to need more attention. And when I’m planning the math lessons, I know I still need to do lessons plan for music and Chinese language. And what about French, science, art & crafts? You know, I just have to learn to add things one at a time, and always remind myself what our priority is. In the last 6 years, we had 4 babies and had moved 4 times, so there you can imagine how much time I had for planning the homeschool. Thanks God my kind hubby always encourage me and remind me to relax and think about our main purpose of homeschooling, which is to let them know the God Almighty, to have strong family bonding and to build their character. We strongly believe wisdom from God is a lot more important than knowledge. Therefore, no matter what, I read them the Bible in the morning, sing hymns with them, do our chores together. And if there is no special craft to do, we make cookies, so that after all the work, we have something to enjoy. In our “spare time”, we read some little English and Chinese stories. After we are used to the pattern and seems to have room for other things, I add in history and science readings. And then some more math related activities. Lately, we started the physical strength and endurance training. So everyday, they need to accomplish a set of general excerises. Well, as you can see, we still need to squeeze in more music time, science experiments, and language arts time too…..well, it sounds scary….but believe me, we don’t do everything every day. Basically, for now, the must are just the Bible, hymns, chores, excercise and some stories reading =)