We started off our eleventh year of homeschooling at the very end of July into August.  It was early but we knew we would have several breaks throughout the year.  So, here goes ya’ll!  I have kids starting in Pre-k all the way to a sophomore in high school.  Prayers are always appreciated!

Group subjects this year include:

• All-American History (Bright Ideas)-All grades
• Apologia Exploring Creation for Anatomy & Physiology-Josiah down to Emmie
• Bible (we’re studying different books in the Bible-Philippians, Proverbs, some Psalms and Romans)

Emmie is “officially” starting school.  My goal is to have her recognize her letters and numbers along with shapes and colors before the end of the year.  It’s going to be slow going because NF brings a lot of challenges and most kids with it have some learning disabilities but we’re working at her pace which is the joy of homeschooling!  We’re using All About Reading Pre-Level and working on thinking skills using Building Thinking Skills-Beginning and Primary Levels.  She’ll probably also be working through Developing the Early Learner in January.

Malachi is in first grade.  He’s the eager beaver learner right now.  He taught himself to read last year.  So, this year, he is doing the following:

• All About Reading Level 3
• All About Spelling Level 2
• Basic Language Skills from Master Books
• Math Lessons for a Living Education Level 1

Bryant is heading into third grade.  He’s worked hard on reading and has grown so much in it!  Bryant’s working on:

• Learning Language Lessons through Language Arts Level 3
• Math Lessons for a Living Education Level 3
• All About Spelling Level 4
• Easy Peasy Reading Level 3

Silas is working in various levels.  He worked hard last year on a program outside of school to increase his processing speeds.  It’s helped and we’re hoping it continues to help.  This  year, he is working on:

• Language Lessons for a Living Education Level 2
• Teaching Textbooks Math Grade 4
• All About Reading Level 2
• All About Spelling Level 2

Ceili Rain continues to enjoy all things school.  She’s still totally in love with math and is thrilled we are doing Anatomy for Science.  This year she is working on:

• IEW Student Writing Intensive (ya’ll, this has been the best program to get my kids into writing and writing well)
• Math Lessons for a Living Education Level 4
• Readers in Residence Vol 1
• Fix It! Grammar Book 1
• Spelling Power

Josiah’s in sixth grade!  I can’t believe how fast he is growing up.  He’s still a carbon copy of his daddy and growing taller by leaps and bounds.  This year he is working:

• IEW Continuation Course Level B
• Math Lessons for a Living Education Level 6
• Veritas Reading Comprehension Guides
• Fix It! Grammar Book Two
• Spelling Power

Liam’s starting to get into more independent work.  To help him with that this year, we swapped over from book work to online school.  So, this year, Liam is in Alpha Omega’s Monarch program for Language Arts, Math, Science and History.  So far, he is doing well with it and communicating more with us about his work.  He’s also going to be doing an online coding class but we haven’t narrowed down which one yet.

With Ace starting his 9th grade year, I’m now officially “teaching” two high schoolers!  Aggghhh!  He is expressing more of an interest in graphic design and we’re helping provide opportunities for him to explore it more.  He’s working on the following:

• Honors Literature with Train Up a Child Publishing
• Essay Styles for High School (Train Up a Child Publishing)
• Apologia Chemistry
• Intro to Graphic Deall aboutsign (Schoolhouse Teachers)
• Drawing Success with Jan Bowers
• Spanish with DuoLingo (Still trying to figure out how to grade this one)
• Worldviews in Conflict
• Saxon Algebra II
• Fix It!  Book Three

Zoe was at Grandparent Camp when we hit ten days.  So, Papa and Grandmere did me a huge favor by getting a pic!  She still says that ASL is her favorite language and the Deaf community is continuing to be a big learning area for her.  This year she is working on:

• Honors American Literature (Train Up a Child Publishing)
• Essay Styles for High School (Train Up a Child Publishing)
• Apologia Chemistry
• Worldviews in Conflict
• Drawing Success
• American Sign Language II (she is doing an intensive class this semester and will look at doing an online class next semester)
• Saxon Geometry
• Fix It!  Book 3

I added links here just to make it easy for curious minds to check it out.  However, most of our curriculum is used (through Homeschool Classifieds) or downloadable (in the case of most of our Master books).  We aren’t endorsing any one company and all of these products were paid for by us…with our blood, sweat, and tears.