Really, he is fine with school starting. He just doesn't enjoy having his picture taken!
So, in addition to my 10th grader and 7th grader, I have a second grader this year! This one keeps things interesting. Well, they all do, really.
We quickly found out that what worked for the girls doesn't work as well for him. We made it about three weeks into the DVD program we were using before realizing that it was an exercise in futility because the entire time the DVD was on, I was having to try to get him to pay attention to it. There was about an hour of DVD time, which we *crammed* into about two hours. :-/ Thankfully homeschooling for a long time has taught me to be able to say "this is NOT working for us, let's let it go!" So we did. He is actually still using the same curriculum, just not with the DVD right now. I really do want to go back and add the DVDs, at least for reading class in the future; we'll see how that goes.
He is using Bob Jones for reading and English. English is a bit of a stretch for him right now, but really I'm okay with that. Sometimes I still get stressed about it, then I try to remind myself that he'll be writing paragraphs again next year and the next year and for the next eight or so years after that, so it's fine if writing a paragraph in second grade is really too much for him. Okay, I kind of have to remind myself of that daily. He is reading well though, and actually does pretty well with grammar too.
For math, we are using CLE, but that ends this week and we're switching to Teaching Textbooks. I have enjoyed CLE, and we may end up going back to it, but for now, my time is a priority and I think TT will be completely student driven for him, so we're going to give it a try. He is pretty mathy, and seems to be excited about doing his math on the computer. We'll see how it goes.
He is also using my beloved Heart of Dakota curriculum for science and history, and pretty much just enrichment of what we're already doing. He is finishing up Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory. I decided to make it work and to put him on the same path as his sisters, that we would do Beyond for first and second grade, Bigger for third and fourth, Preparing for fifth and sixth, Creation to Christ for seventh, Resurrection to Reformation for eighth, and then he will be on the same high school path as both sisters. At least that is my plan as of now. I try to be flexible ... to an extent. I'm really not so much a flexible person, but by the same token, I don't want to have everything planned out forever.
He also attends our co-op, and is learning about the fifty states there, along with science, literature, art, and music.
OH! I have to show a picture of a mural his co-op art class did. So fabulous! They all worked together and this is the end result:
So, there is what each of my kids is doing for their schoolwork this year. Sometime soon, I will have a post on what works for us as far as organization and planning goes!
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