{"id":467,"date":"2015-08-11T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/?p=467"},"modified":"2015-08-11T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T17:00:44","slug":"2015-2016-school-year-already-in-full-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/2015\/08\/11\/2015-2016-school-year-already-in-full-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"2015-2016 School Year, Already in Full Swing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So last year<\/a> was our first year back in Maryland. It was much easier than I’d anticipated, mostly thanks to the wonderful folks over at Calvary Gospel Home Educators<\/a> who made it a breeze.\u00a0 The hardest part about the whole year was keeping up on the paperwork.\u00a0 However, that same paperwork will make it extremely easy to create a transcript for my high schooler when the time comes. It also helped that my husband made an excel version of the grading report that does all of the weighted grading for me. Nice.<\/p>\n

So this year, we actually started back on July 6.\u00a0 I felt really strange, because for once I was fully prepared for the school year to start. I had almost everything planned, printed, and scheduled a few weeks before we actually started.\u00a0 The younger two are both working on a 5th\/6th grade level.\u00a0 English is once again a mix of reading and Easy Grammar<\/a>. Math-U-See Epsilon<\/a> is proving challenging already for my Diva<\/a>, while Lt<\/a> continues to easily grasp the math concepts.\u00a0 After going over several history options with them both this summer, they both decided they wanted to do Mystery of History<\/a>. Apologia’s Exploring Anatomy<\/a> rounds out the extent of my curriculum for the younger two.\u00a0 They are constantly doing art, not just with pen and paper but also in their Minecraft builds, photo editing, digital drawing, and LEGO creations. I just periodically grab a few screen shots or copies for their portfolios.<\/p>\n

My Diva is struggling some to grasp the math, but that’s normal for her. Once she gets these first few concepts under her belt, she will fly through the book.\u00a0 Same goes for the language.\u00a0 She is teaching herself history & science, only joining her younger brother & I for the experiments.\u00a0 She likes to work at night after her brothers go to bed, because it cuts down on the noise and distraction.\u00a0 She’s the biggest night owl in a family of night owls. She likes to do her school work, then often reads until 2 or 3 am.\u00a0 Her current favorite are the Warrior Cats<\/a> series. When she wakes up, her time is spent hanging out in the LEGO friends gallery, making edits, drawing animals, creating things with LEGO, blogging<\/a>, and playing Minecraft.\u00a0 She’s also the one behind the dog’s blog, Peanut’s Paws<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’ve done a lot of work with Lt over the past school year. He was officially diagnosed with both dysgraphia and dyslexia last year. I also discovered his mild hearing difficulties, and synesthesia<\/a>. Last year we used All About Spelling to jump start his reading, and work to train those pesky letters.\u00a0 Just reinforcing letter sounds has made a huge difference.\u00a0 His reading has taken off. He does still get tired after a while, and that when he struggles with reversals and missing or changed letters.\u00a0 He’s been reading his school lessons to me whenever he can, as well as learning and researching new ways to code in Minecraft.\u00a0 His downtime is often spent on Minecraft, playing with LEGOs, or on the Xbox.\u00a0 He also blogs <\/a>occasionally.<\/p>\n

The oldest is in 10th grade this year.\u00a0 I can not believe I’m old enough to have a 10th grader, even if he is working ahead of grade level.\u00a0 He uses Switched On Schoolhouse<\/a> for English II, Geography, Spanish I, and Old Testament Survey. Science is Apologia’s Biology course on CD<\/a>.\u00a0 We got the microscope kit<\/a> and the dissection kit<\/a> from Christian Book Distributors.\u00a0 Math is Geometry by Math-U-See<\/a>. Honestly, he’s almost completely self-taught at age 14. Every curriculum he’s using is either self-explanatory, or comes with a teacher on DVD.\u00a0 He only ever comes to me when he needs help. Sure, he has times when he misinterprets the lesson and we have to go back over things, but overall, he’s doing really well.\u00a0 I’m kind of in awe of how well he’s doing on his own at his age.<\/p>\n

When he isn’t doing schoolwork, Capt740 can be found on Minecraft, in the middle of a pile of LEGOs, or reading anything he can get his hands on. He blogs<\/a> on the rare occasion.<\/p>\n

So that’s the beginning of our school year, even though we are already half way through the first quarter! I can’t believe how fast time is flying this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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