No promises to keep this thing up this year, as I have failed miserably the last 2 years! But all the same, it is that time again. This will be our 4th year homeschooling, and our 3rd full year with all the kids home. Last year was not so great. Life definitely got in the way of school and we made a lot of mid-school changes to curriculum that left us in limbo by end of year. That's okay though, this year we should be better and stronger because of the chaos of last year!
So when does the 2012-13 school year for the TERDS begin? Well officially we are starting full school September 17th. Why so late this year? We are heading to Florida Sept 8-15th and schools here don't start until the 4th so we really didn't see the point in starting school just to turn around and take a week off just when we're finding out groove. BUT James and I woke up this morning and said, you know, today's the day! Since we only half finished several things last year we have carry over work, plenty of busy work, and some fun projects we can start kicking into gear. So although our first full day is still 5 weeks away, we are diving in head first with some light schooling to turn those brains back on after a long lazy summer!
So today I placed the last of the orders for the new curriculum and a few things are starting to roll in. We did a big family scavenger hunt to pull together scattered supplies and roll over curriculum from last year. Binders and folders are all neatly labeled and ready to go now. And each kid completed one actual schooling assignment. Plus James and Roman are starting to look over the pre-req's for KidCoder, the programming elective Roman picked out for this year.
And the highlight of today's 1st day of 2012-13 school year..... BAND open house! This year all 3 kids are joining Beginner Band with Powhatan Homeschool Music under the direction of James Robinson. Today we got to meet Mr. Robinson and see the music studio which is the finished garage in his house. The made instant friends with his 2 daughters and we got to meet 2 other families as well. The kids each got to try their new intruments... Roman on Sax, Hope on Flute, and Bethany on Trumpet. And they did great! We had hoped to sign them up for this last year, and already bought their instruments, but it was too late by the time we got everything sorted. But this year, we're a go! This will also count as Roman's 2nd elective for this year.
And so, without all our curriculum, and with nothing prepared, we dive in head first and if today is any indication, it's going to be a GREAT year!
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