I started this school year full of excitement & anticipation of what homeschooling was going to be like for our family. I had illusions of grandeur filling my mind.
Thankfully, I really wasn't completely deluding myself. Although I was REALLY hoping to blog daily or at least a few days/week about our adventures, and that clearly hasn't happened...we're a month in and the girls are showing HUGE progress! I is at ease...she has a peace about her that I haven't seen in her in years. What a blessing! Her academics are on track and she's actually ASKING to do additional projects like book reports! YAY! M is flying through her work at a rapid speed. It's amazing how much 1st grade curriculum you can cover when there's only 1 child to teach! She has such a strong grasp of the material she may even advance to 2nd grade work before this school year is complete. I'm finding this to be one of my favorite aspects to home education...the lessons can tailor to the individual child as opposed to the middle of the road student in an over-crowded classroom.
Admittedly, we're still figuring out what homeschooling looks like in our home. We've been pretty regimented thus far, following the curriculum daily, but we're looking to expand our horizons to include more field trips & hands on activities. That will no doubt be a welcome enrichment to the current routine! Of course, there's going to be a 2 week shift while Sam & I travel to Ghana to visit our children there & file their USCIS paperwork. I & M will spend that time with their grandparents. We (the kids & I) have discussed it quite a bit, and decided that rather than lugging all of their workbooks & all of the teacher's guides to Grandma's, they'll take their Bible & Math with them and work on independent study projects for History, Science & Language Arts. I am excited to see how they do on those when we return.
Odds are, I won't blog again until our return from Africa...so until then, God bless!
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