The Kids and That Room.

Just wanted to throw a quick post out there for anyone wondering about curriculum choices, or the kids, the school room :)

OUR KIDS

We have 4.  Summer our oldest is 6, she's in 2nd grade this year and our firecracker.  We are usually dealing with impulsiveness due to ADHD.  She also has a severe tree nut allergy.  Acaydia is 4 and is in K.  She's the sweet quiet one, does what she's told, schools quickly, and everyone loves her.  Malachi is our fun loving boy. Sometimes he's bright, sometimes not so much-but always thoughtful and always sweet.  He's 3 and while he will be attending our CC class on tuesday mornings, and engaging in *some* of our home activities, he will be enrolled in an early pre-k class in afternoons.  Then we have Kaemon.  He's a challenge too, He's only 18 months but he has a temper.  Sweet most of the time, until he wants something and you don't have it or won't give it.  They all have great strengths, and all have weaknesses we work on.  We love them all the same though and wouldn't give any of them up for a second.

OUR ROOM

 

OUR CURRICULUM

This is the first year where I feel confident in our choices of curriculum.  In previous years (ask me about MFW) we tried out different things and not a whole lot seemed to fit.  I've been pretty solid on our Christ Centered Phonics since shortly after we started (tried Abeka phonics but it wasnt a good fit either).  One thing I did realize is that a "boxed" curriculum was NOT for us.  They just were too much, too overwhelming.  This year I am happy with our choices.  We are a week into it and we all seem to be gelling well.  There was no "adjusting" it just all worked.

Summer-2nd grade:

 -Saxon 2
-Christ Centered Phonics C:2 toward the end
-Apologia Astronomy - we are doing C3 in CC and it's anatomy but she was really wanting to do astronomy so that's what we went with.
-Story of the World Ancient Empires - again this doesn't line up with our CC material, but we really wanted to start at the beginning.
-Song School Latin - we don't have a lot of extra time so this will be a once a week/every other week thing most likely.  It's fun and it's good copywork ;)

Acaydia-K:

-Abeka Math K
-Christ Centered Phonics B:1
-She will also be doing Apologia and SOTW with her sister :)
-Interactive Sight Word Notebook.  We used something similar to this with summer and it's so much fun, we found this and she is LOVING it.

 

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