Thursday, September 7, 2017

A much needed Update!

Hey there friends! If there are any of you still reading! :)

It's been a few years, and amazingly I can say that I am still homeschooling!  This will be my 4th year (2017-2018) homeschooling Peanut, my daughter, who is in 5th grade this year.  And this is my first year homeschooling my son Scout for Kindergarten.  It has been quite the journey so far, and there are many hard days, but overall I am happy with our path and am very proud of our kids and all of their hard work.

You might have noticed that I didn't mention Romeo.  Well, as he has grown, we discovered that he has some learning and developmental delays, along with his ADHD and SPD (sensory processing disorder).  I attempted to homeschool him for Kindergarten and it did not go well.  So, we attempted a charter school, another utter failure. Then when we moved to a new school district last year, we decided to give our local public school a try.  He was tested and then placed in a Special Day Class. Essentially, it is just a much smaller classroom (under 10 kids) with teachers and aides to provide the kids with more one on one attention.  It has not been perfect and last year he had a LOT of behavioral issues. But thankfully these teachers are trained to handle these things and he's in a safe place.  Because of this SPD he was required to be in, we had to move him to a different elementary school than our neighborhood one. But next year (for 3rd) they have to move him back to our school and let's just say that Romeo does not handle change well and this will be very hard on him.  Because of all of this, I am prayerfully (A LOT of PRAYER) considering homeschooling him again either this year or next year. This is not an easy decision and I am wrestling with it. Romeo's IEP will be next month and I'm praying I will have a real sense after that, what is the best choice for him.

My desire is for all of my kids to have a Christian Education. Their faith in God is more important than anything to me. But I have to take it a year at a time and decide what is best for each kid. And I'm starting to realize that I have to figure out what is right for me as well. I can handle a lot, but I have my limits.

For homeschool this year we are doing a mixture of curriculum I will try to do a post about that later. Another new thing we are doing is some classes at HomeSchool Campus. Peanut will be taking a Science class and Scout will be taking a Junior Engineering Class. I hope they will love it! Along with sports, Keepers of the Faith, a Mom's Group, and a new community group with our church, this is going to be a very busy year!

More soon!
Jamie