First Day of School 2009- 2010

And we're off!

I can't believe it's already time for school to start. It seems like we just finished up the last year. Oh wait, we did :) We had a short break, but now we are ready to get moving again. We are using My Father's World again this year. We focused on American history last year with Adventures. This year we are using MFW's Exploring Countries and Cultures and working on world geography with a special focus on missions and Bible translations. Here are some of the books we'll be using as the year progresses.


We had our first day on August 3, 2009. The girls were uber excited and were dressed and ready to begin long before I rolled out of bed in the morning. Here they are for our traditional first day of school picture. Cute, aren't they?

Sadey is in Pk4 this year. For those of you who are as clueless about these things as I used to be, that just means that she's a 4 year old preschooler. We'll be using a combination of things, but mainly Before Five in a Row and Letter of the Week. I'll come back later and post links to both of those programs - too lazy to do that right this moment :)


Hard to believe it, but Delaney is officially a 2nd grader! She's doing ECC with Sydney, but she's also working hard at math and language arts this year. We are using Math U See, Primary Language Lessons, Children Liberty Press's Nature Readers and we'll be doing something for spelling. Not quite sure what yet, but definitely something.


Sydney is officially a 5th grader. It's her last year as an elementary student *sniff sniff* She's doing ECC, and will also be using Writing Strands, Intermediate Language Lessons, Math U See and...something for spelling. I should probably choose a curriculum before the year gets away from us.

We have our books and took some pictures - guess we're ready to get this school year started! Stay tuned. I hope to actually post more updates this year.

Clearly....

Clearly I stink at this whole "keeping an updated blog" thing.

Sorry.

I had good intentions. I was going to post at least once a week with summaries of what we had done and pictures of our field trips and cool science experiments. It all worked great in my head! Unfortunately I forgot to take into account the fact that I am time-challenged and, basically, lazy when it comes to these things.

To sum up last year though - it was great :) We finished our work on June 26th and the girls excelled in every subject. They are awesome. I'll post some pics over the next couple of weeks. In theory, anyway. I know you don't believe me, but I might just surprise you.

So anyway, beginning June 26th we took a 6 week summer vacation. We started it off with a bang by coming down with some weird virus. We are a polite bunch though - we took turns and spent about 4 weeks passing it around the family. I bet you're sorry that you don't live at our house! I was totally run down for about 10 days and then just super weak for another 7. The girls didn't seem to be as tired, but they had the whole fever, tummy ache, whiney, sickey thing that's required of any long-lived illness.

We made it through, but that didn't leave a whole lot of time to mark things off my FIVE PAGE 'to do' list before I needed to start planning for this years' co op classes and prep for our own studies. Let's just say that the last couple of weeks have basically involved me being tied to a chair - working, working, working.

Sadly the house is still a mess, but I am prepared to start teaching co op and my own children. Basically. Kinda' sorta. We'll work out the kinks as we go along.

I haven't downloaded our official first day of school pics yet, but we did get back to work on August 3rd and co op starts on August 21st....Here we go!

Happy 2009-2010 school year!!!!!