Nicole<\/a> has been such a blessing. The kids enjoy her lessons, understand her lessons, and are remembering concepts. They are flying through the math sections of the Summer Bridge Workbooks with ease, which brings such peace to me in a subject that once created such angst.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHailey is rocking her IEW writing. She seems to have structured writing down so I want to look into opportunities to give her more experience with creative writing (which she loves) and research-type papers (yawn). I slacked off a bit on checking her Fix It Grammar, and found a few holes that I’ve started to address. Whoops; my bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We focused more on All About Reading for Kaitlyn and that’s been AWESOME for her confidence and enjoyment with reading. We didn’t get to do too much of the IEW themed unit because of that, so I plan to pick it back up in the new school year. The few lessons we did do, she really enjoyed, so we’re looking forward to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We completed the first third of US Geography, which was enjoyable, but then fell off of it in favor of US Government. That was a great decision, as teaching government during an election year really helps the kids understand the structure of the electoral process and how our government was formed and is supposed to function. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next school year<\/h3>\n\n\n\n I plan to get more concrete with science. Up until now it’s been all interest-led, co-op, and Mystery Science. It has served us well as a foundation and I think we’ll have fun with some deeper dives now. I will also begin to educate myself on how to homeschool high school next year. Hailey is only going into 7th, but I’d like to have a firm understanding on how to structure and implement it before we get to that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall I’m ending this 6th and 4th grade year feeling that their knowledge base is really balanced. We take a whole picture approach to education and I am pleased with the balance we currently have between book-based learning, social and emotional growth (this will take a step forward with a sleep away camp this summer that we are excited and feel they are ready for), and life skills. They are happy and thriving and I’m just so grateful for this experience. Still… summer schedule, we are ready and coming for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nHello and happy Friday! Today is going to be 80 degrees and sunny, just another sign that the season is changing. Spring…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":67124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1671,2295],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-homeschool","8":"category-journals","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67084"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67134,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67084\/revisions\/67134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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