Playing catch-up

Have I been home schooling? "Yes."

Have I been home schooling well? "Umm. Define well."

I started this blog forever ago to give myself a little more accountability in all the flexibility of home schooling. I love the flexibility of taking a field trip or a day off. I love not needing to be home at 3 pm everyday or in a school pick-up line for 1/2 hour in the afternoon. I love not waking all three kids up to get ready for school before 7:30 am. But, it's really easy to forget about a blog that I never post on!

So where are we as far as school goes? Somewhere between K and 1st grade.

Penmanship--K.
Spelling--K
Reading--mid-K, but making progress. S is reading phonetically, just a little slow. We've turned a corner so now he actually wants to read (again) so I'm hoping it's just going to be smooth sailing from now on.
Math--1st grade. Addition, Subtraction. Counting by 10s. Next, counting by 5s. Ooh. But I keep forgetting to go over telling time. For some reason I skipped that in my lesson book. Make a note!
History--1st. Covering ancient civilizations currently. Although I do need to add a little more umph to history, although S is enjoying listening to it as a story with occasional projects or visuals, I'd like to make it even more enthralling.
Science--1st. Loving that we are about to start a science group with some other little scientists!
Grammar--1st. Also loving that S can give the definition of a noun and pronoun, as well as list about 20 common pronouns and is working on verbs (currently action verbs). We've also covered proper and common nouns. We are working on plot, setting, characters, etc in our story co-op.

Revise tomorrow.

Plan tomorrow.