We joined an option 3 association!

We finally decided on a homeschool accountability association to join (for South Carolina legal option #3). After much thought, we signed up and sent our paperwork off to Palmetto Homeschool Association. We should be all set to start counting days soon! We are signing up a bit late--could have started counting days in mid-June or July. But if my calculations are correct, doing only weekdays and not taking breaks, we'd have the opportunity to count about 210 days before the cutoff in the middle of June. We only need 180. Field trips--anytime we go to the children's museum, zoo, theatrical/musical performances, botanical gardens, and similar places, even on the weekends--count. There's a Saturday science lab that Suzi is now old enough to attend! Anyway, it made me feel good to see that we have plenty of days to get this done!

I found a planner book at Goodwill for cheap. It's really for a schoolteacher and not a homeschool mom, so it has lots of places for info I will never fill in--like contact information for 30 students and directions for a substitute teacher. But it'll work great for writing down a loose idea of what we're doing each day and keeping track of how many days we've completed. As long as it works, I'll use it! More detailed descriptions of our days and samples of Suzi's work will be kept on this blog and also in a binder.