Yikes! May 13, 2008

I had a bit of an anxiety attack the other day, as I realized the ginormous task ahead of me.  I’ve been researching and researching, and I still don’t know everything I need to teach the kids.  So, I started to really freak out and felt entirely overwhelmed.  I guess it just hit me, all of a sudden.  Math won’t be a problem, we’ve already picked out a math program we are going to use.  However, that’s the only thing that has been decided.  What am I going to do about reading?  My friend, Amy, who is also going to be homeschooling, is suppose to get Hooked on Phonics for us to use from her mom, but that hasn’t happened yet.  I think that will be a good program to use, and is pretty well proved.  But, what about spelling, language arts, science, art, music? I think my big problem is that I don’t know exactly what should be taught at what grade level.  I’ve got some information from the school district as to their math and reading guidelines, but I need more.  I think that what I need to to is contact some other homeschoolers, and see how they do it.  I guess this is a good lesson for me to remember that I don’t have to have all the answers and information at once, and that I need to take a deep breath.