Showing posts with label Home School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Home School. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Summer School Progress Report

I've gotta give a shout out to Miss Erica, our amazing summer school teacher!

Girl, you rock!

Erica is a college student, studying to be a teacher...and have we got her on a crash course this summer :)

I don't even know how this whole thing came about but for the Lord's intervention, and since He does all things well, we couldn't have planned this any better ourselves!

Every morning Erica is in our kitchen at 8:30 am, her large tote full of books and cool learning gear. We are two and a half weeks into school and are seeing incredible progress, thanks to her skills and preparation.

We're also pretty proud of her student! Erica had a two-week lesson plan made out when she started...and they completed all the work the first day!

Now that she's got a feel for where Kooper's at, she's runnin' with it. The first week they refreshed and refined the things we'd been working on in home school, plus he learned to multiply by 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s. Now he's multiplying all digits, and is working on money, time and fractions.

I'm so impressed with Erica's skills (and patience), and I'm very proud of my son!

Erica, because of you, our boy will be ready for school in August.

Down side, he wants to play the drums in band! Ah, what's a little more noise around here?!?

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Can I Get an AMEN!

As I've mentioned, every day in these parts is like a box of cheap chocolates. We hope for the best and pray in preparation for the ... not.so.best.

Now that we've figured out that our 14 year old is in full-on grieving mode, the days are more bearable. We are more able to claim God's renewed mercies, draw from His strength and cling to the hope that this season won't last forever!

Every school day is a challenge, especially at this time when his grief is causing confusion and lack of concentration. I often wonder if he's learning anything I'm teaching. To top it off, he's not a morning person at.all! About noon he perks up, on a good day.

BUT TODAY I had a happy student from the get-go! He was excited that his hair is getting too long and stands straight up after the shower. He was not irritated that the kids were loud. He was not annoyed that the sun is shining. He was not upset that it is daytime...

We are seeing light at the end of the tunnel, and it's not the train!

Lord, I thank You that even when we are so far into the pit we fail to recognize You that You are STILL THERE. Thank You for giving us glimpses outside the pit and for ultimately bringing us out, desiring to refine us every teeny.tiny.step of the way! AMEN!

Friday, February 19, 2010

School & Silliness

Good morning, my two early birds!
Goldfish, Dora and the Dynamic Duo!
Snaps from last weekend. I can't even describe how much fun we had. There were 7 families with 33 kids!
Making Valentine and Chinese New Year cards
Happy Feet! Kambry has the cutest feet anyway, but add a little glitter ... and oh my!
Kambry's CNY fireworks
Kayden's fireworks

"Don't look at me like you're gonna take my Doritos..."
Decorating tables maybe?
Food! Food! Food!
Catching up
Scooter races
And finally, school! I had to pay him to take this picture :)
Last weekend was so fun! Thank you, Brad and Kim, for planning, cooking and putting us up. I'm still amazed we got to church on time (9:15!) with 13 kids! My church family is shocked - lol.
It was such a blessing to meet internet friends and revisit old friends.

In school news, we've completed another week! By Monday afternoon the teacher was ready to retire...but I think the student now understands who's the boss and has had an attitude adjustment, resulting in a very productive Tuesday through Friday :)

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Progress Report

Some have asked how Kooper's home schooling is going, so it's high time for a progress report.
School has been in session for three and a half weeks, and this has been the best one by far! We start at 8:30 and are finished around 3.
Since we've started, he:
can say the alphabet
write the alphabet in caps and lower case
count and write to 100
is reading Bob Books 5-8
is reading his first real book ever
is almost finished with Section 1 of Rosetta St*ne
is reading one story per day and explaining it to us from the Chinese/English Children's Story Bible
is learning multiple digit subtraction using borrowing and carrying
is doing 100 timed math fact sheets
has learned the nouns in the living room and is working on the kitchen
is not using the translator
is still learning how to treat the teacher and follow instructions - lol
...let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Heb 12:1

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Progress...

Candidly speaking, Monday home school was okay, Tuesday was terrible, Wednesday was better...
On Wednesday Kooper could say about half the alphabet. Daddy has this amazing way of teaching him, and today Kooper said the entire alphabet! He's now working on writing it...a zillion times!
So, this is the season we are in ~
where English needs to be the first language,
the laundry is never done,
there's a neat stack of school books on every flat surface,
the pencil sharpener is overworked,
Mama gets up at 4 just to get some work done in peace and quiet,
Daddy is gearing up for corn between teaching, laundry and driving the school bus,
we dream about subtraction tables,
plan a week of meals in advance,
Checkers is the game of the day,
constantly strive to relinquish the control we never really had...
and wonder why we are dog tired by 9 p.m. :)

Not so long ago I was that mom who wouldn't allow Play-Doh in the house because I didn't want the mess. Times, they have changed ~ Play-Doh is my friend!


And ya' know what? Life is good!

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