We have been home schooling now for about two weeks. Life has been so crazy with convention and so many other things happening at work I have had little time to update the blog, but now I am going to try to get back into it. I will start today with a short description of how things have gone with our classes so far then go on in the next few days to talk about the dynamics of what we are doing.

We started out trying to explicitly follow the Sonlight program is really quite good. Kelly and Christian both like the books very much, though I think Christian would rather be reading about science. While the grammar part appears to be OK, it does not really provide the kind of structure I would like. I have ordered a program called Easy Grammar that appears to be much more well suited for the way we work. We will continue to read and report on the Easy Grammar. Kelly appears to be very interested in a book that came with Sonlight named Writers, Inc.. We will probably start working through that book with her, too.

Science seems to be going fairly well, although I would like it to be much more “hands-on” with Christian. We have misplaced the RealScience-4-Kids program, but as soon as we find it, I think we will switch over to that program, at least for Christian.

I will try to talk about some of the extracurrricular activities we are doing tomorrow.||We have been home schooling now for about two weeks. Life has been so crazy with convention and so many other things happening at work I have had little time to update the blog, but now I am going to try to get back into it. I will start today with a short description of how things have gone with our classes so far then go on in the next few days to talk about the dynamics of what we are doing.