A New Roof!!

Good bye holes in the roof where I can see the sky from the inside.
 Hello darkness where it's suppose to be!!

First Day of School

Ryan-- Last Semester at New River Community College
         Taking--  Biology, Chemistry, Networking Systems, and World Civilizations

Connor--First Semester at New River Community College
     Taking--Intro into Computer Science, Pre-Cal with Trigonometry, College Success skills class                          College Composition

Connor- Well, college is college I guess. It's kind of a transition because most of the work is quantity based, rather than quality based like it used to be. Luckily all of my assignments are easy to keep track of because they're all online, so you just look on the website and it's all there. I'm enjoying the material of the classes. I have two professors who are pretty good and one who's just mediocre. She explains everything, but the presentation is dry and boring. I guess that'll be most of my math classes in the future.

After a summer full of preparing to attend Pulaski County High School this year she's ready for her first day!  As a homeschooled student entering the high school as a Sophomore Cailin had to prove that she mastered the knowledge of the Freshman classes that PCHS offered.  She didn't know all of it, so she spent the summer reading, learning and taking many tests for all the subjects.  She aced them all (but one)--especially the history and English 9 work--that she's a full fledged 10th grader with 7 high school credits.   Algebra didn't go so well, so now she's retaking that class, but she's not terribly unhappy with that as she really likes her teacher and really wants to learn the subject.

Cailin-- Okay, so, hi. Just so you know, the reason I didn't pass the Algebra 1 test is because I never finished Algebra 1. I was doing Saxon Math and it was really bad and didn't make any sense, so I switched to Aleks and with that I was kind of lazy and never finished it. I only got about half way through the course totally. So when I took the test, I didn't know all the stuff because I hadn't learned all the stuff, so I failed the test, but only by one question, which was much better than I expected.

Anyway, high school is okay. It's weird, and very different. The people are weird and very different. But the classes are good and I like all my teachers, even though I don't like all the students in the classes. Some are loud and will not be quiet. But. Still. There are a lot of good people at the high school, and I'm glad I'm there. 

She forgot to add that she auditioned for Advance Choir and got it!  yea!!

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 Delaney is excited to enter 6th grade!   She will be working hard to write lots of papers this year, Grammar (First Language Lessons, Writing with Ease, Daily Grams,Spelling Plus) and math (Math Mammoth) studies will continue.  Now that she's very proficient at reading---and has become quite the book worm she and I developed a reading list that she will go through along with her own personal books of choice.

We'll all continue having fun attending history/book group with other LDS homeschool families. (Brame's, Mattson's, Walker's and new to join us the Averett's)  Well be using Story of the World and study the Medieval and Renaissance time periods.  For book group we'll be reading:  The Bronze Bow, The Little White Horse, Over Sea Under Stone, The Little Prince, Adam of the Road, Princess Academy, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and Along Came a Dog.


This year we will continue to use Latter-day Learning for Science (Astronomy and Geology), Music Appreciation, Art Appreciation, Literature, Geography (Europe) and History (combined with group time)

 Liam's excited to really dig his teeth into learning to read better this year and math.  We'll also start studies of grammar and continue with penmanship and copy work.

I will also have the kids continue to work on memory work items.  I have them memorize Classical conversations memory work (which is history timeline, sentence, geography, science items) I'm also adding Articles of Faith for Liam ---he's now 8 and has begun his Faith in God, and poems.

I really like the Classical model of education and I've found a program written just for kiddos with special needs by Memoria Press call Simply Classical.  I will be following Level B curriculum for Brianne this year.  It too, has a focus on memory work (poems and songs) along with other preschool like studies.

This should be a great year!