BACK in the HOMESCHOOL SADDLE again

August 5, 2013

We started the homeschool year this week.  I have a beginner, an elementary schooler, 2 Jr highers and a first year high schooler.  It has been crazy getting use to the new schedule, finding all our new books, teaching 4 grades, grading their work, spending adequate time with all 7 children, and fitting everything else in (cooking, diaper changing, nursing, exercising, cleaning).  I have fallen in bed each night.

 

Ryan – 13 years old, 9^th grade:

Likes:

Playing sports (especially soccer)

Playing with my brothers and sisters

Playing Call of Duty on the Wii

Playing Frisbee with dad

Playing board games (Monopoly) and card games

Adventure style books (39 clues, Percy Jackson series)

Mom’s chicken and veggie bake, pizza, pancakes, waffles, French toast, and asado

Spending time with MKs

Airsoft

Staying up late

Ping-Pong with dad

Our dogs and cat

Math (especially since he gets to use a graphing calculator this year!)

Learning Latin (and studying other foreign languages) which he might use as a platform for a profession one day or he may want to do something sports related

 

Ginny – 11 years old, 6^th grade:

Wearing a bathrobe

Collecting “junk” (shiny things, toilet paper tubes, rocks, marbles)

Cooking

Cora, Karis, and Romy

Playing with the baby

Sharing a room with Julia

All kinds of animals

Swimming (especially at the beach)

Shrimp, pork, pickles, broccoli, bacon, and anything grilled

 

Books about horses (Black Beauty) and dogs

Adventures in Odyssey

Shopping and buying things

Stopping by the pet store

Listening to instrumental music (Michael W. Smith’s Freedom CD)

Singer Nicole C Mullens

Playing with farm animals

Listening to the music from musicals

Wants to be a veterinarian

Draw animals and people, painting landscapes

Making things, doing crafts, sewing, designing clothes

 

Joshua – 10 years old, 6^th grade:

Likes:

History (especially studying about the Presidents and different countries)

Potato soup, sea food, meat, and pizza

Soccer

Monopoly

Doing experiments

Airsoft

Reading good books (Percy Jackson series, Heroes of Olympus series)

Movies: Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit

Anything to do with the Marvel Heroes

Adventures in Odyssey

Wants to be in politics

Tyler – 8 years old, 3^rd grade:

 

Likes:

Throwing the Frisbee

Call of Duty on computer

Soccer

Playing with Ryan, David, Eli, Micah, Toby and Colton

Ramen noodles, noodles, asado, macaroni and cheese, hamburgers and pizza

He may want to be a doctor when he grows but doesn’t want to work every day

Math

Adventures in Odyssey

Rhinos

Airsoft

 

Micah – 6 years old, pre-k

Being barefoot

Playing in the sand and looking for snails at the beach

Doing homeschool

Collecting metal

To eat shrimp

Explore

Josiah

Buying candy

Snakes

Swimming

Listening to Adventures in Odyssey

Wants to be a scientist