Second Week of School

What a crazy crazy summer! We were so busy I had no time to write anything at all~

Here we are now, at the beginning of our school year. It has started off great! R is in Classical Conversations and is doing very well with it. She takes Algebra 1, Latin, Current events, Literature, Science and Logic. She tells me she really is enjoying all of her classes. Before class started she really had a hard time with Latin. She came home the first day (they meet on Fridays only) and she is really excited about it. She has learned so many of the declensions and is actually timing herself to see how many she can get right. Last yr she had a little bit of Algebra but was not ready for Algebra yet. However, she is thinking the right questions now and is enjoying Algebra when before she struggled with just the negatives and positives. Not only does she have a full schedule of school work where she starts at 8am and ends around 230pm she swims 3-4 times a week on a year round swim team, has youth on Wednesdays at church, she will be doing Robotics one of the days during the week. I think this yr will be good for her. To be in some classes that challenge her thinking.

Isaac started school last week. He is also in Classical Conversations in Foundations. www.classicalconversations.com He will be doing a lot of memory work. This week we focus on memorizing counting by two's and three's, the ten commandment, the five groups of animal kingdom, the beginning of Latin, and what a preposition is. While it may seem that this is sorta crazy to be doing, this is the best age for a child to memorize all this information. When Isaac ends up doing multiplication 3 yrs from now he'll know all of the facts just by memorizing. He'll know the foundations for all other subjects before even starting. He is also tackling the phonics groups (last yr we started this but I was not rigorous in my effort since he was in kindergarten). We are working on the phonics OI OY this week. We are studying ancient Egypt too! He'll have the enjoyment of looking at a Pinto Bean and learn the diagram that goes with it. With this said, he is starting soccer on Mondays and Wednesdays with RA's on Wednesday evenings at church.

Hopefully I won't be too busy to write again....