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Showing posts with label Homeschooling. Show all posts
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Monday, October 5, 2009

Our curriculum arrived!

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine told me about Arizona Virtual Academy. It's through the public school system, but you do the work at home. Some of it is done online, some of it is done offline. They send you the curriculum and everything for free! I had NO idea exactly how much we'd get, so when 2 huge boxes arrived, I was really quite shocked! The pictures really don't show the extent of what we received. We got paints, brushes, a beaker, goggles, a scale, books galore, workbooks, modeling clay, a tambourine, a globe, CD's...

Here's Kyrie, helping me go through her stash!

And here's a close up of all the stuff. That middle pile is stacked about a foot off the floor, although you can't tell in the picture.

Today will be our first official day doing AZVA since our supplies just arrived last week. I'm already so excited about it! I think it'll be a lot more structured and will ease a lot of the pressure I was feeling with doing all the planning on my own. Derk's even getting in on it and asked to teach her a few things himself, which sounds great to me! I think programs like this are awesome!

Friday, September 4, 2009

School days

School has been going pretty well so far. It's been a bit of trial-and-error, trying to figure out what time of day works best. Originally, I was doing it during naptime so that Cambria was out of the way. But then school took up the entire time, and I ended up having no time to myself to relax at all during the day. Now I've started doing school a little bit before nap time, then we finish up with about 30-45 minutes to spare before Bri wakes up. That's been a pretty perfect balance, I think. And now I've got Kyrie hooked on watching House Hunters with me! lol!

Here's Kyrie taking a math test!
We've been practicing carrying and borrowing this week.

I love that we can do school in our pajamas! :)

We've been learning about volcanoes in science. I found a volcano science project online, but I've had to put off doing it for like 3 weeks now. My camera battery died, and I really wanted to get it on video. So we had to wait until it got here, which ended up being on Tuesday. We got to do our science experiment today. Check it out!

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

Yeah, not quite the grand explosion I planned! lol. Oh well!