Month: October 2007

I thought it might be neat to have a record of what we do at the end of each month.  We had a good month in September.  It was a little topsy-turvy because we spent a couple of weeks at different conventions and had a visit from Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah so the weeks were broken up a little.  Nevertheless we moved forward in all of our important scholastic areas.  I will not report on some things like music or physical education because, even though we have on-going programs, there is really not much change in what the kids do.  Here is our current state of study:

Math
    Kelly:  Finishing up Elementary Algebra.  Will begin Intermediate Algebra in October.
    Christian:  Finishing up Pre-algebra.  Will begin Elementary Algebra in October.

English Grammar, Vocabulary, and Writing
    Kelly:  About a quarter of the way into Teaching Terrific Writing, More than half complete with Wordly Wise 6
    Christian:  Halfway through the last book of the Easy Grammar series.  Starting Wordly Wise 6 in October.
    Future:  I have spoken with our good friend Rebekah in Dallas.  She has found a really good program called WriteShop.  I think I will order that for Kelly as soon as she finishes Teaching Terrific Writing.  Christian will move on to Teaching Terrific Writing when he finishes the last Easy Grammar book.

History and Literature:
    Kelly:  Continues the first year of Sonlight’s two year survey of American history (with accompanying literature).
    Christian:  Continues the first year of Sonlight’s two year survey of World history (with accompanying literature).
    Note:  I will go into this in a little more detail in future posts with respect to the poetry, history books, novels, time line book drawings, etc.

Science:
    Kelly:   Physical Science:  Jay L. Wiles’ physical science book.
    Christian:  General Science:  This is first year in Jay L. Wiles stellar science education series.  Christian is currently studying scientific method along with the world views that underpin the philosophy of science.
    Both:  Lyrical Life Science II – The kids sing songs that help them memorize facts about different animal groups.  The writers and singers of this program are from Corvallis, Oregon.

Bible memorization:
    Kelly:  Will continue memorizing Matthew 5 & 6 through Thanksgiving.
    Christian:  Will continue memorizing Matthew 5 through Thanksgiving.

Handwriting:
    Christian:  A Reason for Handwriting F

Computer programming:
    Christian:  C# Game Programming

Spanish:
    Both the kids are on course to finish the first year of Rosetta Stone Spanish and start the second year by Christmas.

We are doing some other stuff, but this is the bulk of it.  In future posts, I will try to describe what they are doing with some specificity and depth for one subject per month.

Yesterday, I took the day off to drive to North Wilkesboro to visit one of the customers of our little company, Quality Corners with Grandpa Milo.  It was a very nice drive and a good meeting.  We have been enjoying Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah very much.  The kids have been continuing with their homeschool all this time.  Tonight, we will go to our bible study.  Tomorrow, Lester and Ester are coming over for one of Grandpa Milo’s special dinners.  Friday, we are just going to go out to dinner.  On Saturday, we will go to the Holly Springs library in the morning then send them home from the airport on Saturday afternoon.  It has been a very, very good time for all of us.

Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah got here late Saturday afternoon.  We have been having a wonderful time with them.  We took them to Salsa Fresh on the way home from the airport.  Then, on Sunday after meeting, we took them to Sweet Tomato for soup and salad with our friend Troy.  On Sunday night, we had soup again.  So, all we have really been doing is eating.  My diet is not really going that well.  We are going to have a dinner for Lester and Ester that Grandpa Milo, Kelly, and Christian are going to prepare on Thursday evening, there are plans to go to the library and maybe a museum.  I am going to go with Grandpa Milo to visit one of our customers in North Wilkesboro, South Carolina on Tuesday.  We have quite a full schedule and we are still going to try to do all of our homeschool, too.  It should be a great week!