Change

This year has been characterized by change.  After talking with a friend (also a certified teacher like me), learning it took her 3 years of homeschooling to realize what really worked for her kids, I realize I'm not alone in switching/changing things up to best suite my kids, learning styles & life.  :o)

I sold a lot of extra things we had sitting on our school shelves and was able to find an awesome deal online for Sonlight Core B.   It's Year 1 of World History. I had looked into it at the very beginning of researching h/s curriculum years ago but didn't consider it because of the price.  I realized that I can combine D&K easily...it's all reading (what we LOVE to do all the time anyway) and there's not a lot of extra hands-on things, but we can always add them when we have time/want to do them.

We're in week 2 and really LOVING it.  We're learning lots of things about other countries (languages, money, clothes, food, etc.)  I'm amazed at what K has remembered.  D loves that we're not reading the same book over and over (like FIAR at the beginning of the school year).  We're memorizing Psalm 1 right now and reading the book of Mark.  We're also reading the book, Leading Little Ones to God.  Once a week we're reading a story from Missionary Stories with the Millers.  For a fun read-aloud, we're reading Charlotte's Web right now.  We saw a pig (just like Wilbur) today on our field trip!

K finished up her EarlyBird Math last week and began Singapore 1A.  She is enjoying it, even though it's all b/w pages.  She decides to color most of her pages each day.   I'm sure it'll stop once it takes her more than a few second to complete a page. :)

D is close to finishing up his 2B math book.  This morning at breakfast he told me that 2/3 of the kids wanted shredded wheat and 1/3 wanted Cheerios.  Glad to know his work with fractions a few weeks ago is stuck in his brain!  Ha!

He is reading LOTS of books.  I love it!  He found LarryBoy chapter books and a book series about a kid who's family is a spy.  He had no problems earning his Book-It certificate this month!

C will come to the couch/table most days with the kids and say, "I want to do my school."  The other day she was sorting fun erasers.  Yesterday, she was "helping" K with her math paper and as K was counting (filling in missing numbers) C was shouting out the answers.  What a little Smarty Pants!  She picks up EVERYTHING the kids say/I read.