Home School

I decided to try Home Schooling the kids for the rest of this school year.  There were a variety of reasons for this including annoyance at the downside of public education, boredom of my kids due to teaching with no child left behind in mind, I was curious if I could do it, and Cameron's job has a lot of benefits for travel if we could not have school to hold us back.  So in January we were finally admitted into the charter school I chose to use.  

It has been a fun process to watch my children learn and to have more control over what they learn and how they learn it.  They are happy to have extra time each day and sometimes bored with the choices available for that extra time.  They are great learners most of the time although they complain when they  do an assignment.  I feel there is a lot more time for individual instruction and for fixing holes that were in each of my child's progress.  I do not feel I will do this forever but have enjoyed the process and recommend it to all parents if they are able for at least a little while.

Some of my favorite things are doing math lessons with Ashling, teaching from Story of the World to the girls, and doing Ali's hated language arts text with her.  I have been very happy with the Sky Mountain Charter school.