We are saying goodbye to another summer. Last summer of my son’s tweens, as he’s turning 13 tomorrow. Last school year was incredibly busy, and quite stressful for us with intense extra curricular activities. But the summer was sweet (but short).
We hiked,played with friends and visited new places in our state. We made lovely memories.
Colorado National Monument
Rocky Mountain National Park
Golden Gate Canyon State Park
This week we have started school at home and at the homeschool program my kids attended for many years now. D. started grade 8 and C. started grade 5.
This school year at home will be different for us as D. will take all of his core subjects at the program and I will support and supplement at home, which is completely new, as it used to be the other way around. He wanted to take Algebra and Physical Science and I wanted to make sure that he gets the best possible instruction. I don’t mind these, but they are not my favorites. He also takes English there, US History and STEAM. His classes are twice a week.
C. still goes once a week to the program taking English, Colorado History, Science and Coding there, most of her school is done at home.
Both kids continue to sing with Young Voices of Colorado, D. is now in advanced male choir and considers Music Theory Exam in the end of the school year. C. is in second level of training choirs.
Both are still doing karate with D. being a junior black belt and C.- solid green.
At home my goal for this year is taking a calm approach (1st week was a failure in that term) . We are trying out Book Shark Curriculum for Language Arts and Science/History. Singapore math for C., D. is doing Saxon for the first time in the program (we used to do Singapore with him). We continue doing our Russian lessons, and D. is taking Spanish in addition to that. He is very excited.
My plate is full with my illustration work and the commitments I made for volunteering at children’s choir.
It will be a very very busy year. I do miss the early grades and the lovely slow days we had. But I also welcome the challenge of having a full schedule and measure our time to do both work and play. I hope we can spend enough time in nature, will have more read-alouds as a family.
Here’s to 2018-2019 school year, out 10th year of homeschooling.
Sunflowerous Days 