Homeschool Fun

Has it really been a year since I've last posted in this blog? Seems almost impossible how quickly time is passing. The boys are another year older and hopefully wiser. I know that every year I'm learning something new. This journey is a constant, ever evolving cycle of hills, mountains, plateaus and slopes. Right now I feel like I'm climbing Everest and gasping for air. It's almost like being in a bubble floating in the ocean and getting tossed around by the waves. My health hasn't been the best this past year but things are looking up and every day I'm finding a silver lining among the clouds. It's not always easy but I will get there. The boys are enjoying this year of schooling. We have gotten into a good routine and unlike last year I have them doing a lot of writing. I was more relaxed last year and they got somewhat lazy since they were on the computer a lot. This year I feel things are balanced more. They do computer lab on Monday's and Fridays. The rest of the week we work on devotions, workbooks, math, reading comprehension and art. We have covered a lot in just a month and a 1/2 of school and already have a full binder of work to show for it. We don't need an evaluator yet so I do not need to keep all their work, I just choose to do so and at the end of the year I choose the best to keep in a folder where I return to process review material for the summer months. We do our testing at the end of each quarter on what we learned that 3-4 months. It's a great way to gauge where we are and where we're going. I'm anxious to see how the rest of the school year goes and I promise to update more than 1x this year :)