As spring approaches, many of us like to get a start on planning for next school year.

Having a plan in place can be so helpful as you attend homeschool conventions and shop for curriculum.

And it can also set your mind at ease so you can enjoy the summer holiday to the fullest.

But as you make those plans, sometimes the lessons from this year don't

end neatly, tied up in a little bow on your final day of school. Sometimes you didn't

get through as much this year as you had expected to. Somehow there are more chapters in

the book, or there are going to be lessons left over? What do you do then? Let's talk about

how to handle unfinished resources. Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia

Schaefer. It can be exciting to look at a fresh school year with a

blank slate. We can make it whatever we want to make it. But unfinished resources from this year

can dampen that enthusiasm a bit. How can we start new when we have leftovers? As we near the

end of a school year and we see that this resource

or this book isn't going to be finished, one of two defaults tend to kick in, maybe both.

We either push to get that book done this year or we toss it aside and think,

it doesn't matter if we finish it or not.

Now, either of those decisions might be a good one, depending on the situation, and we'll

talk more about that in the minute.

But I want to encourage you to think it through and make your decision in a way that aligns

with what you believe about education.

Don't allow the calendar to pressure you into abandoning your principles and making an

inferior choice.

When we let the time pressure get to us and decide we need to push to get a resource done. That often means trying to cram more

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