Welcome

I have set up this blog to record our first year in homeschooling. I have 6 children right now, Randy is 25, Katy is 10, Mackenzie is 7, Madyson Claire is 5, Ava Marie is 2 and Aidan is 5 months. I have been blogging for a couple of years and I am excited to have this new blog along with my regular blog.

My daughter Katy just finished the 4th grade in public school. I am not unhappy about her education, and I really did love the school she was attending. In fact my other 2 school age children are still attending Arbor Creek Elementary and it is a wonderful school. I am going to start with Katy and also Ava Marie though she is only 2, but I have purchased a really good curriculum for her too, it is mostly reading. Mackenzie and Madyson will continue to go to the public school, for now.

The problem is that they have changed the range of grades at the school, it was Kindergarten through 6th Grade and now it will only go to 5th Grade. The 6th graders will go to the Middle School. I am not happy about Middle School. I don't think it is a safe place for my children. It is filled with mean girls, nasty boys and teachers who give them too much freedom and not enough structure.

Originally we were going to wait until Katy was in 6th grade to start our homeschool, but she was very excited and both of us decided we didn't want to wait any longer. So the plan is to homeschool Katy from 5th grade through 8th grade. I am not sure if she will go to a private high school or if I will continue to homeschool her through high school...we have 4 years to figure that out.

I will update this blog over the summer, but probably not on a daily basis. Then I will blog daily when we start school. At this time I have decided to start school on August 23rd. The other girls start school on the 18th and I want to wait until they are in school so I can concentrate on Katy!