Ending of Summer

Wow, where did the summer go? We didn't have much summer weather here so it seems like summer never really started and not it is ending. We are officially starting our school year tomorrow, I am really looking forward to this year.

Abbigail will be learning about Children Around the World and will also be doing the usual Language Arts and Math. Science she will be taking "Featuring Animals" and "Nocturnal Animal" through Olympia Regional Learning Academy (a homeschool program put on through the Olympia school district) she will also be following along with the boys in their Animal Worlds program which has quite a bit of science. A couple of other classes she will be taking through Olympia Regional Learning Academy (ORLA), are Creative Writing and Drama Lab. She is signed up for Art, P.E and will be starting Power Tap. She has a very full schedule this year, which I think will be good for her, she tend to get in trouble if she isn't busy.

Steven and Austin will be studying Animal Worlds, learning to read with Hooked on Phonics and Explode the Code (ETC), they both will be working through Math U See Primer. Steven will supplement math u see with Singapore Earlybird Math. Steven will be taking a couple of classes through the ORLA program, Story Theater, A Little Math and New Readers. Both boys are trying out Taekwondo this year and they are both very excited about it.

I feel a bit sad for Austin this year, because it seems as we keep saying, "when you are 5". He wants to do P.E and he has to be 5, he wants to be part of the ORLA program and he has to be 5, and so on. He has always been able to do what Steven does and now he isn't able to.