Pronouns, Nouns, Antecedents

We have made it two weeks in the homeschooling world and are all alive and well. We have had some trying times, some frustrating moment and times when I've felt so overwhelmed I could scream. But, all in all it has been good.

One of our frustrations has been getting all of our curriculum. All of Kalen's curriculum arrived before school started. However, the virtual school ordered all her materials at grade level so we have had to reorder her math, which finally came yesterday. It has been really frustrating getting Kaleb's materials. We finally received his language arts today and the rest will come on Monday. The kids do some of their work on the computer but most of it is from books. The teachers at the virtual school scraped together some of the materials for us to use. However, we have not been able to do math, language arts or music. We have been able to do science and history and have just been reading for language arts.

The k12 curriculum is more advanced than what the kids have been doing in public school. I asked both Kalen's teacher and Kaleb's teacher and they told me it was. We went to an ice cream social that Kalen's teacher had and I had an opportunity to asked other parents who's kids were in public school before k12 and they told me the same thing. The k12 program covers all subjects where as the public school concentrates on math, reading and writing. From what we could get out of the language arts without Kaleb's actual materials it was obvious that the level three was to advanced for him. Last year I volunteered in his class during language arts one day every week. None of his second grade class would have been ready to move on to the grade 3 k12 material.

So we are all on a learning curve. The kids have a lot of work to do. We start at 8:30 a.m. and end about 2:30-3:00 p.m. I have a full time teaching job. I'm struggling to get the my housework done. It's been a trial to even change the laundry during the day. Thankfully, Mark did most of the laundry last weekend so that was one less thing I had to worry about.

Kalen is a totally different kid. There is no more anxiety and meanness before she goes off to school in the morning and she isn't in a 'tear your head off' mood when she comes home from school. She would struggle on the weekends with the let down of not going to school and the lack of a schedule, which would make her difficult to get along with. In the beginning I tried to put her on a schedule, but we haven't stuck to it. Instead of setting exact times that we work on something, we work on it until its done. I also ask her what subject we wants to start with and let her make choices. We take breaks but not a set time and the same with lunch. I usually send the kids to lunch at different times so I can work individually with the other kid. Kalen is becoming less rigid with out having a 'set in stone' schedule.

I will have an IEP meeting next week for Kalen to make accommodations for her learning disability. She is still eligible for the same special services that she received in public school, such as occupational therapy and speech therapy. I was told that the people that handled her services at her elementary school will be at the IEP meeting. I asked that Miss S. not be invited to the meeting. It's going to be a difficult meeting. I'm not really sure what to do about her services, are they something that she still really needs or not. I will definitely put some prayer into it before I go to the meeting.

So I will keep studying my lessons so I can get my rusty brain to remember common nouns, proper nouns, demonstrative pronouns, indefinite pronouns, antecedents..............................