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Homeschooling

So this year we decided to sign Karilee up for online public school. It's not exactly homeschool because we do have the support and structure provided by Venture Upward, but in a large part, I'm responsible for making sure the work gets done and helping her learn it. I plan to also do several units of study myself to help her learn more--mostly literature-based. I really want to take this year together to learn about things she's really curious about, develop some new skills, and help her love of learning grow. I want to post here about what we're doing and keep track of her progress. We're going to be using IXL to plan some additional curriculum to help keep her at or above her grade level. We plan to do this all school year, and if it goes well, maybe long term. Who knows? 

Currently, I want to do a weekly rotation for some skills that we want to work on. M-Handwriting, T-Spanish, W-Art, TH-US Geography, F-Animal Science. She also mentioned wanted to work on Time, Earth Science, and Geometry--so I might make some units to focus on those during August. She has about 2 hours of work to do online every day and will attend Venture School once a week for her electives. I'm hoping that if she works well we can work in weekly library trips, park runs, and occasional visits to the Herret Center here in town. 

So I'm going to be pretty busy keeping her engaged and happy as well as the other two kids--oh did I mention I'm taking 6 credits this semester! That's better than the 12 I took last semester, but then I wasn't homeschooling, so whatever! It'll all work out!<3

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