Long overdue update!

This past year has not been without it’s hurdles to overcome.  All of my plans for this year have ultimately changed for many different reasons.  Ultimately, life changed.

We pulled Aaron from day school suddenly when my Mom was diagnosed with Stage 3B Colorectal Cancer.  We spent from March through mid-June in Georgia.  The kids and I stayed through her surgery to remove the tumor as well as her recovery and beginning stages of chemo treatment.  My sister has been there for the chemo treatments.  With lots of prayers, my Mom is doing well and over halfway through her treatment.  Things are looking up and hopefully she will finish treatment in October and be cancer free.

During our time in Georgia, I tried to keep the kid’s lives as normal as possible.  We signed up for soccer.  They played outside often.  We tried to school some. 

When we returned home and I looked through Calvert’s preschool, it was too easy for Wiggles.  Abeka’s k-4 was too intense for my taste.  We settled on starting Wiggles as a young kindergartener with Heart of Dakota’s Little Hearts for His Glory.

I hope to keep up with the blog more this year.

Next Year’s Curriculum Decision

I have purchased both Calvert’s pre-k and Abeka’s k-4.  The plan is to start with Calvert and after it is completed to do Abeka’s k-4.  Then I will make a decision about which works better for us.  I may love Calvert so much that I will skip Abeka’s k-4.  I don’t know.

Wiggles is finishing up his year of day school.  He is enjoying it and it has gone well.  I am looking forward to him coming home next year though.

I will probably keep his schooling on this blog until he starts 1st grade.

It’s been a long while!

It has been a long while since I have blogged on Wiggle’s blog.  He is still in day school and still doing well.  He has had a chronic cough since about November and I took him in to the doctor and found out it is bronchitis.  He started antibiotics today and hopefully will be much better soon.

He will be staying home next year with the big kids.  I am debating what curriculum to use.  I do have a short list though and it is down to Abeka or Calvert.

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Ultimately, I am ordering all from one place this year so my decision weighs heavily on how I like the older grades as well.

Week in Review 11-19-2010

Homeschool-LHTH Unit 3

Sandpaper letter-Cc

Coloring stripes on Abraham’s tent.

Painting stars in the sky.

Abraham’s tent in the night sky. 

Mad Mondays Co-op

Crafts-

Pumpkin

Jack’o’lantern face

Turkey

ABC/123 Class

We are using Landmark Freedom Baptist Curriculum for our ABC/123 class.

We learned about Native Americans.

The color brown.

C-can

Day School

Invitation to Thanksgiving program.

This was a really neat corn project. 

T is for Turkey

Wiggles’ day school uses the letter people curriculum.  Here is Mrs. F.  Each week there is a Family activity page to do with your child about the letter person they are learning.

Thanksgiving program!

Wiggles is enjoying day school, but still loves to do his LHTH work at home.  He has a busy week though.  He goes to day school M-F in the morning.  He goes to co-op with us Monday afternoons and when he asks we do LHTH at home. 

Next year, he will likely do LHFHG for kindergarten at home.

Wiggles goes to Day School!

We have decided to put Wiggles in Day School.  Home school and co-op is working beautiful for our bigger kids, but the offerings at the co-op for preschool is not what Wiggles or I need.  Wiggles has also been demanding more attention during schooling the biggers.  This is more often “bad” attention.

I didn’t think that we would find a spot for him, but we did.  The director is also Big Sis’ previous pre-k teacher.  I am very excited for him as he loves having something all his own.  It is also helping him to be around kids his age.  He is the youngest of 4 and everyone else is well past the preschool years.

He goes M-F for 3 hours.  You would be amazed at how much schooling I can do with my 2nd, 4th, and 5th grader during this time.  It has made a big difference in our home school.

I plan to start back our home school with him next week in the afternoon after he has relaxed and rested from day school.  This is what we need for this season in our lives. 

   

The fire dept. came and talked to them and gave them these wonderful hats.  He is enjoying day school. 

Next week, we will add back in our LHTH in the afternoon.