My First Ever Curriculum Plan

I hang out on this message board full of high-powered homeschoolers and they all say, over and over again, that the key is get organized, have a plan and stick to it.

So...I have a mostly finished plan!

I sat down and worked out lists of week-by-week to-dos from now until June:

• Weekly library storytimes at our local branch, the downtown main branch and the Jewish children's library
• Park days all over town
• Art projects, by which I mean I plan to robotically go through MaryAnn F. Kohl's excellent First Art: Art Experiences for Toddlers and Twos chapter by chapter. (I don't trust myself to figure anything out when it comes to art.)
• Music exposure and appreciation, mostly an eclectic mix of stuff I really like myself (Eminem is included, hee).
• Plus, a very vague category of Montessori/sensory/puzzles projects, drawn from the Montessori at Home ebook, Tim Seldin's How To Raise An Amazing Child the Montessori Way, the terribly intimidating "hard Montessori" Montessori from the Start and Elizabeth Hainstock's Teaching Montessori in the Home.

This is basically all the fun stuff, of course. Note there are no categories for "math!" and "language!" partly because I'm a mushier teacher than I usually admit, and partly because that's the hard stuff to really "plan" and I didn't get there yet.