August is that month when adults are gearing up for the school year.
Teachers deck out their classrooms with maps, charts, and inspirational posters, scratch out lesson plans to get a kick-start on the year, and fill out attendance books with the names of their new students. Parents stock up on notebooks, pens, and pencils, take the kids shopping for new clothes or buy required uniforms online, and start arranging extracurricular activities on their calendars. Veteran homeschooling moms and dads familiarize themselves with the curriculum they’ve purchased, hunt for any gaps in their kids’ education they may have missed, and help dispel the butterflies of friends new to homeschooling.
