Turbot The turbot is a large flatfish which is prized for its firm white flesh and subtle, refined flavour. Not a cheap option, but when cooked with a few carefully selected ingredients it makes a very fine meal indeed. For easy elegance and purity of flavour, some of the dishes in the recipes listed are hard to beat. For what to eat on seasonal food in the USA or Canada, please visit our sister site.
Sign up and receive the latest posts via email. Well guys, we are now a little over a month in our first homeschool year! I wanted to write this post as an update because, as I was saying on Instagram, you can’t really know what is going to work or what you’re even going to do until you just start. This reminds me of knitting, which I learned how to do during this pandemic season. So, if you read my previous blog post you know I had these grand plans to teach allllll these subjects and was even writing my own curriculum to go along with it. Okay well, real life — that worked for maybe four days.
Well, it’s not that it didn’t work, it’s just that it was way too much for all of us. I spent my mornings anxiously trying to fit it all in and feeling stressed. Grayson loved it but I have two other little kids to think about, too. It got to the point where I just needed to be more flexible and adapt our curriculum to, basically, be less. I actually realized through this experience that I can really only do half of what I think I can do.
That’s where we are at right now. If doing less makes me a less stressed out mom and my kids are still happy and learning, I count that as a win. So, here’s what we found to really work for us. Every morning, we have what we call Morning Time. Morning Time right now is literally only ten minutes. Every morning we sing a hymn, read the Ology, sometimes do some scripture copywork and work on our memory work.
After trying a few different things we finally decided to go with the literature and project based curriculum for elementary students, The Playful Pioneers, from Peaceful Press. Playful Pioneers is also super family friendly because you can just adapt it for the ages of your kids. When we come back, we do some table time work. Grayson works on his copywork for the day and does some phonics from an Explode the Code book, which he loves.