We started school on Monday, July11th. We're doing school on a trimester schedule this year. July and Agust everyone except Sam and Susan are working completely independently while I keep writing home school curriculum to sell and use for my own kids.
The first period is July and August. Each kid has 2 courses plus reading. September through Novemeber, each kid will have 3 courses plus reading. Then January through April, again, the kids will have 3 courses plus reading.
So right now Adam has computer programming and finishing his chemistry course. Rachel has starting her chemistry course and a grammar class. Anya has grammar and painting. Joseph has physics and grammar. Joshua actually has a full math course that he is doubling the amount of lessons, so that is all besides reading. Arwen has math and art. Susan has language arts and math. Sam has language art and math. That will all change in September when I will have completed and published my two course books.
School is fairy easy right now and it is going well. The kids have been fairly easy going. It really has been a good get back into the swing of things month of schooling.
Two things that I am doing that I think are going really well are speech therapy for Sam and Gideon. Sam has a lisp and Gideon has had a hard time pronouncing words with more than one syllable. In the month since we began, Gideon is a lot more understandbale. Plus he really enjoys his speech time. The other thing is I started a homeschool seminary. We have not been doing seminary through the church and I had just dropped it, but I felt like Adam and Rachel did not know their scriptures as they should. So we began "early morning seminary" for the high school kids this year and that is probably the most lovely part of the day. Rachel is sucha sweet girl during seminary and she reads willingly and answers all of the questions. I hope to keep this going through all of my kids, especially since I think that we will never do seminary throught the church again.
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