Well, we arrived back from an amazing vacation in the Smokey Mountains and now we have one week until our lessons begin.  Our homeschool calendar follows more of a year-round schedule which enables us to take breaks throughout the school year.  When most of our area starts school (late August) we will be taking our first week long break - and it will be wonderful! :) This year we will have a 5th grader, 2nd grader, and kindergartner.  Let me just say for the record the lesson plans that have taken the most time, preparation, and organization have been for our kindergartner - hands down. One area I have recently updated is our calendar wall.  I have used the same classroom calendar for the last three years and it is beginning to look really "loved".  I didn't want to purchase a new set but did find some great additions from Erica at Confessions of a Homeschooler.  I used her K4 Curriculum last year and loved every bit of it.  This year we will be using her Road Trip curriculum for our Geography lessons.  Erica's curriculum is super fun and very thorough. It truly amazes me how many lessons can come from simple calendar activities.  It is not just reviewing days of the week or months of the year.  We count, skip count, tally, record weather, graph, work with time and money, learn number words, solve problems, work on place value, etc. etc. etc. :)  I love calendar time and it will be a sad day when we no longer need it in our school day.