Growing WarriorsJust your typical family…

I registered our homeschool. We are now officially a school – Almely Academy. Whoever can figure out the rationale for the name wins a prize (a big virtual smooch).

Allison turns 7 in about 3 months, and we have to register before she turns 7, so there ya go. Now I never have to do it again. All three of the kids will be enrolled automatically, and we are totally left alone by the state. I didn’t even have to mention the name(s) of my students, their grades or anything! No mandated assessments, no annual registration, no required courses or attendance records. A big reason I love Kansas

School is actually going very well around here. Just if you are wondering. Allison is reading and enjoying it, and reads daily on her own for fun now (whoo hoo). She is EXCELLING in math. I love Right Start. It rocks. Allison blows me away daily…and reports that math is her very favorite subject (although she can’t wait for spring when we start doing insects and other creepy crawlies for science). And in other news, Meredith is the proud owner of some workbooks. Sigh. Yes, it wasn’t that long ago that I was claiming that you would not find a workbook in my house! But Meredith was begging for school, and kept asking about workbooks when we would see them in the store, so I finally buckled and got her a large K-math and K-reading book, which she works out of at her leisure. She will often do 2-4 pages while Allison has her school…but many times she opts not to. Either way is fine by me. April first we are going to start her on 100EZ lessons for reading (V E R Y S L O W L Y), along with a bit of Spell to Write and Read along with Allison, just to reinforce pre-reading for Meredith and start some spelling stuff with Allison. She will also start her level A of Right Start…a couple of lessons a week…so also S L O W. And Allison will continue on her current track….We are currently doing AO across the board (only on week five of year one…), with some minor secularization of the readings , but next year I may modify it somewhat and do the Classical Education’s history program. Anyone ever use that? Opinions? And then just use AO for literature, geography, etc.

We are all sick this week so taking it easy. I tried to do a bit of school today. I read a chapter from Paddle-to-the-sea, and both Allison and I were so out of it, at the end, neither of us knew what I just read, so instead we played some math games, did some handwriting, and did Music Ace on the computer.. Meredith did some workbook pages, and Lydia stands at the table and scribbles. Fair day considering we all feel yucky.

Eric has a Very Important Job Interview today, which required the purchase of a suit jacket. I am on the edge of my seat waiting for updates.

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