Back to School

This was our first week back to school, and it has gone surprisingly well. I like to start off on an abbreviated schedule and then work our way up to a full schedule. So, this week our focus was on math, English, spelling, writing, and science, most days we were finished before 11 am.

It never amazes me that I can have everything all planned out, and still need to make a copy of this, or oops I need to print this out or something is missing! Even with all my goofs we still had a good week. Their student notebooks are all ready, I still need to search the basement for two empty binders for their Science notebooks, but will have that all squared away before our next Science lesson.

On Friday the kids needed to type their compositions and boy did that start out very hectic; for some reason Microsoft Word didn't want to load on the computer downstairs, not a problem, switch to Plan B - have them type up their work on the laptops, but I wanted them to save the document to a CD, only that would not work! Finally, I just had them save the document to the hard drive, then they can copy to a thumb drive so they will be able to print out the masterpiece. Sometime those really simple things take up way more time than they should! Am I the only one this happens to? I hope not.

AWANA started this week, the kids were all excited, Gene will now be in the Trek group which meets on Wednesday evening, and Nicole continues in T & T which meets on Friday evening. I almost forgot about taking Nicole on Friday, after dinner I was ready to lounge on the couch like a lazy cat and then suddenly remembered I needed to take the girl to her AWANA meeting!

Next week for school, the focus will be on our Tapestry of Grace Year 2 studies, so I'm off to complete our schedule.