People keep ask what we're going to do next year and I'm thinking "You are so not living in the same reality as I am".
Last year when I signed up DS5 for Montessori K-6, people kept asking me where I would put him after that. Gee. They could have as well asked me which college he would attend.
We could decide to homeschool, pick a bunch of materials, and by summer they may be useless.
I did this so many times, not the homeschooling part, but buying things which lasted only a few weeks and then he moved onto more difficult concepts/reading. As a matter of fact I just ordered beautiful magnetic charts which compare fractions, percentile and decimals. It hasn't come yet. Today it turned out that DS5 already understands most of it. I think it will still last a few weeks though. It does look nice, may be I could spend a few hours looking at it to get my money worth. Good that he has a younger brother, at least he will get to use it, when the time comes.
Last May I got a few things in a learning store. The cashier made a comment that it would keep us busy for the whole summer. Yeah, right. I didn't want to tell her that a few weeks tops.
