Welcome back, everyone!
We stopped blogging for a while, thinking that a better way to reach our family and friends would be to mail our newsletters (not everyone has internet access, right?) but, after a year and a half of writing our newsletter, and often forgetting to go to the post office to mail it, or running out of stamps and only sending them to half of our list, we decided to give this medium another try.
This school year we are doing something quite different! We will be integrating our literature-based curriculum (Sonlight) with online programs (Time4Learning, ABCmouse). In our technologically advanced world, we know it's important that our children know and understand how to utilize computers and similar systems, and what better way than to mix this integration with necessary core material? Asher and Savannah will be focusing on Math material this year, while Rosalynne and Gabrielle will focus on Math and Reading. All four of the kids will have access to core material in other subjects, but for our purposes this year, those subjects will be purely for fun.
As we did in our Newsletters, the kids will be responsible for some of the information in the blog, though I intend to post regular updates about our progress. I'm still not certain how frequently I will post, or just how much of a contribution the kids will have (we have an extremely rich and full curriculum this year).
Last week and this week is our "soft start" which is my way of saying we are taking two partial weeks to become acclimated with our online programs so we can work out any bugs well before our official "start" date of September 4th. This is as much for me as it is for the kids, since I am learning two completely new parent 'portals' and reviewing the lessons and objectives along with the overall scope/sequence of the programs. Since we already have a "complete" curriculum with Sonlight, we will likely spend a few weeks adjusting our schedules to achieve the correct balance. Feel free to check in and see how that adjustment is going.
As many of our family and friends know, we have welcomed two new children into the family since this blog was regularly active. Rosalynne and Gabrielle will move to be featured here, in Adventures in Homeschooling, and our two youngest kiddos will be featured in Nursery News.
Well, in a nut shell, that's where we are at right now as we approach the official start of the new school year! We look forward to sharing our adventures with you this coming year. If you know a family member or friend that might enjoy following along, please feel free to share a link to the blog with them, or send me a message with their email, and I can email them a link to new posts as the come out!
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