Dare I say... We are near.... {The Homeschool Mother's Journal}

{I know I didn't follow the format this week. I'm sorry. It's just been so long since I have linked up and last week we took vacation to be with visiting family. So much to share than just a week. Forgive me?}

THE END of our 2010/2011 year!?

Oh yes I must declare we surely are! Can I get a Woot Woot!?

I can not believe how fast this year has gone. In the same token I can not believe how long this year has been?

I also can not believe how long it has been since I have posted about our homeschooling! Wow... I'm so sorry!

In the last couple weeks we have finished our Phonics, Language Arts, Handwriting, and Spelling. This week we are posed to finish Math for the YEAR!

Yeah baby!!

We still will have Bible, History, and Science to do for a little while but the big bulk of the school work is finished! I based my daughter's grades this year off of her tests and my DD finished Phonics/Lang. with a 89.8% and Spelling with a 91% (or right about there. I have two last tests to input for her final grade but that is where she is at right now).

In Math right now we are working on fractions of whole numbers. I have to be honest with you when I first saw these coming up in lessons I got nervous, but you know what my daughter (as usual) surprised the heck out of me with how much fun she had with them. That's right you read it correctly! She has FUN doing them!!

She rocks my socks off!

This is just one of the problems she has been doing. They have gotten harder and she still whizzes right through them.

This year I have noticed I may be a little hard on her to do her best. Which she does in everything but even though I may have been tough she totally has surpassed all that I ever could have expected. This first year of doing it 100% on our own (well with God's help of course!) has been phenomenal!! I can not wait till next year!

OOoohhhh speaking of next year.... I am soooo stoked about our new added feature to our homeschooling week! So are the kids. On Friday I got to sign them all up with a local Co-Op. They have never been and they can't wait! September can not come fast enough in my house. To make matters sweeter or more nerve wracking I am teaching in the Winter/Spring session. Yikes! Honestly I am totally amped to be doing so, but being as I have never gotten up in front of other students to teach I am a little nervous. I am teaching safety to Kindergartners and First Graders. It will be fun!!

My oldest guy has been asking more and more to do school as well. It warms my heart when he says "Can I do school like Sissy?"

We've been working on color sorting and math with M&M's and Skittles. He loves it. His favorite letter to write right now is the letter M too. It's cute because for Mother's day he spelled "MOM" all by himself on the coffee mug he made me. Talk about melting into a puddle of goo. It was awesome!

Heehee and yes I am aware that the instructions on the page here to the left asks for him to draw rectangles he has found, but he wanted to work on his M's some more and I didn't want to tell him no. He has been doing such a good job with them. So I let it slide. :)

All in all I have been really pleased with how this year has gone. Although I have to be honest we have pushed History and Science off most days just to get more of our core subjects done ahead of time. I am looking forward though to enjoying the projects and experiments more now that the core subjects are completed and we can just focus on them.

So maybe pushing them off wasn't so bad!? ;) Hey I have to try to soak up some of that mommy guilt right? Who am I kidding I have so realized I need to figure out a better schedule for next year because 3 active kiddos and 2 schooling next year... It's going to get interesting. But worth it.

If you homeschool more than one who do you get it all done? 

{Also sorry for the poor quality of some of the pictures. They were taken with my cell phone.}