Homeschool 2008-2009

We began our homeschool year shortly after I completed all of my work.  It is going good so far.  Hannah is on the second grade level while Lily began her kindergarten studies.  Lily's first lesson in Kindergarten, I remember teaching Hannah the same lesson, was basically a review for her.  I can see now that she is going to fly through all of the 5-K material I have.  She is so advanced for her age.  She is still 4 you know.  I remember trying to teach Hannah at the same age and she was just not ready, so we held off another year.  Hannah is not behind by no means, but she is not advanced either.  She is still having a little trouble with her reading.  She is improving quickly though.  Once she gets that down, I think she will advance in no time.  Hannah loves math.  It comes more easily to her than reading.  We moved the chalkboard inside the other day and started playing game on it to improve her reading skills and she loves it.  I think it is helping a lot.  Lily plays the games too.  She just blows my mind.  I think it might because she has Hannah and has always been right there with us during Hannah's lessons that she is so advanced for her age.  

We went to our first CHEC group event on Friday.  Tim, Hannah, Lily and I all went bowling with the group.  I wasn't planning on bowling, but Tim talked me into it and I had a lot of fun.  He beat me of course.  I didn't do too shabby though.  ;)  Hannah and Lily loved it and made friends in the process.  That is what it is all about.  I'm still sore from it.  You don't realize how many muscles are used to bowl until the next day, LOL.  

Testing Times

This past month was a very trying month for me.  I had fallen behind in my school work and had to catch-up to keep my financial aid and continue pursuing my degree.  I completed 20 tasks in 18 days.  Most all of the tasks were papers of some sort ranging between 2 and 8 pages.  One was a research report and one task was to create to lesson plans for health and science that were related in some way.  The lesson plans took me 3 out of the 18 days to complete and each were about 10 pages long.  I received a score of 4 out 4 (perfect!) for both plans.  I couldn't believed it.  Achieving that, lifted my spirits and motivated me to complete the rest in time.  After I completed all of the 20 tasks, I still had to pass a final exam before the month was up and I did.  So now I am in goo standing and can continue to pursue my degree in education.  It is getting very close now.  I can't wait!