It has been so long since I was here that I almost forgot that I started this blog to help me record our life as home schoolers. So many things have happened since we were here last. Both my parents passed away, 29 days apart. This event meant that I needed to be away from our business for so long that we ended up closing our doors. Our first grand baby was born causing our hearts to overflow with love and warmth.
School? Luckily it continues no matter where we are. Books are portable, the internet is easily accessible making our studies easy to take along where live requires us to go. However, we are now sequestered back home. The first month of school is well under way. Our curriculum choices did not vary much from previous years. We continue to appreciate the blessings of Math U See. Mr. Demme has a vision with this program. We happened upon in on a chance that it might help us get over a Saxon bump. It did. In fact, so well, that we have never returned to the Saxon program. (Maybe I said all this before.) Daily Grammar is also one of our favorites. The consistency of this program, incremental in structure, like our math, builds a solid foundation.
I struggle still with the RC program. I have always been one to instill a self teaching method of education, that piece fits. I just can't get my group to get into those Henty books. Try as I might,
the discs confuse me. Maybe it is that I was trying to get into this while emptying out my parent's home. That's a good excuse, right? I hope to spend some time getting the kinks worked out there before I decide to give it up to lost causes. After I get this 80lb container of fruit worked through.
Lunch is over, time to get to the chores. It's good to be back.
