The end is near…sort of

Well, we are nearing the end of our school year…in a way.  We school  all year ’round only taking the whole month of August off.  We do take time off throughout the year but the bulk of the time is August.  That being said we are nearly done with the lessons I planned for this school year.  In fact the Boy has completed geometry and already started next year’s pre-calculus.  He’s nearly done with biology and has finished his history.  Likewise, the girls have nearly finshed their language arts work and math is almost completed, too.  That really only leaves history reading and nature studies.  We took a brake from formal science for Mimi and Lala has continued working through general science…she’ll finish it up next year (8th grade) as planned.  We took it a litte easier this year as it was our first year doing high school and I wanted to be sure to get a handle on that with as little stress as possible.  Tink’s kindergarten was rather stop and start but we did succeed with reading as she read her first book by herself two weeks ago.  We still have a bit of work to do over the summer to get her ready for next year…but the good thing about homeschooling is that she can work through everything at her pace.  She is our youngest Kindergartener thus far and the difference that a few months in the age one starts formal schooling makes a huge difference.  I really feel that I should have waited to “start” Kindergarten until she was at least 5.5 yo.  Ah…hindsight is 20/20.  However, she did well and we are proud of her accomplishments!

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