Midway Through Session II

We are closing out our third week of our second session. This is the half way point before our one week break. It is also the half way point for our three session plan for the fall. So far Im pretty happy with where we are and with how its going. Of course we are a little behind on some things, but Im actually impressed that we are as close to on target as we are. We had company for a week in our second week, so while that was a lot of fun, it did throw us a bit off schedule with our lessons.

The focus for this session is...

Individual Math levels:

Grey is finishing his Algebra I (saxon) while participating in a Geometry class using Jacob's Geometry. We will both be happy when this overlap ends, it is quite the challenge, but he'll make it through it.

Gavin is finishing up his Saxon Math 3. We had some developmental issues with grasping number theory early on, so we are a little behind. Although we seem to have broken through that barrier and will be hitting Math 4 in October!

Maggie is starting Saxon Math 2, but I need to track down a copy of the first workbook pages. In the meantime she is enjoying working with Destination Math on the computer. They have correlated their lessons to match up with Saxon, so she is moving through the concepts of the Math 2 program.

Oscar, well he likes numbers, and sings songs about them. He also likes to say, 1, 2, 3, GO!! :-)

Exploratory Latin

Ancient Greek History

Norse Mythology, following up on Greek Mythology and the Labors of Hercules

Cultural Geography

Art History

Reading

Performing Arts & Music

So, overall it is a pretty cohesive session. We will wrap up our focus on Ancient Greece at the end of this session and start Roman history for the final session of this calendar year.