Next week we start a new semester at the Edmonds Homeschool Resource Center and I'm really excited. We are switching from a Tuesday/Thursday schedule to a Monday/Wednesday schedule to change things up a bit and get different classes.
Ella is taking Journalism (she's going to be contributing to the school newspaper!), Children Around the World (grab your passports and go!), Spanish Conversations, Art, and Musical Theater.
Will is taking Writing Strategies, Physical Science, Art and P.E.
At home we finished up with the American Revolution for now and will start studying the Ice Age and going from there. We will continue to do math, copy work, spelling, Ella does science at home, grammar and reading. I'm reading Conrad Richter's The Light In The Forest to them and really enjoying it. Sometimes we save the reading for right before bedtime and we snuggle up in our bed and read chapter after chapter. One of the fondest memories I have of my childhood is when my mom would take us to the library and we would pick out a book for her to read to us. We'd climb into my parent's waterbed (awww yeah) at night and she would read to us.
Ella is taking Journalism (she's going to be contributing to the school newspaper!), Children Around the World (grab your passports and go!), Spanish Conversations, Art, and Musical Theater.
Will is taking Writing Strategies, Physical Science, Art and P.E.
At home we finished up with the American Revolution for now and will start studying the Ice Age and going from there. We will continue to do math, copy work, spelling, Ella does science at home, grammar and reading. I'm reading Conrad Richter's The Light In The Forest to them and really enjoying it. Sometimes we save the reading for right before bedtime and we snuggle up in our bed and read chapter after chapter. One of the fondest memories I have of my childhood is when my mom would take us to the library and we would pick out a book for her to read to us. We'd climb into my parent's waterbed (awww yeah) at night and she would read to us.
And yes, I know it's not "hardcore" homeschooling where it's just me and the kids 24/7 because of the resource center. We feel really blessed to have such a great place nearby that gives the kids a school experience with wonderful teachers that we can choose ourselves. They are all great there, otherwise none of the parents would choose their classes! In truth we call it part-time homeschooling but it works for us and we love it.
2 comments:
It sounds wonderful!
The best of both worlds.
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