We’ve just kicked off our 11th year of homeschooling. Our oldest will be graduating high school this year. In fact, in 5 years all three will be high school graduates.
Let’s just all pause a moment, and take that in. In five years, our wonderful homeschool journey will be over. I will have three high school graduates.
Honestly, if I stop and really contemplate that idea, I get overwhelmed very quickly. I have to just pull back and focus on this year.
Tho, my oldest, is taking the Math-U-See’s Stewardship course, which looks to be a personal finance course with a Biblical slant. Most of his courses in Switched on Schoolhouse again. Language and Government & Economics are in SOS, as are the two half-credit Networking courses. He’s decided he wants to get into the cyber security field, so he’s got more than a few electives in computing this year. Hacker Highschool looks to be the best course so far, as it provides alot of hands-on work with both Windows and Linux operating systems. He’s also taking control of his own education, by finding podcasts and websites devoted to cyber security, and learning everything he can about the field.
Diva is starting 9th grade this year. Most of her classes are in Switched on Schoolhouse as well, which is helpful because we already have most of the disks, so it saves us some money. English 9, Geography, New Testament Survey, and Health are all SOS course. Math-U-See’s Pre-algebra, PE, and Apologia’s Physical Science round out her coursework. She’s also doing some amazing digital art work.
Lt, AKA Tiimmy, has skipped up to 8th grade. This is on purpose, as 8th grade is available to get high school credit for up to three course in our state & with our umbrella program. So by skipping him up to 8th grade, he can take Apologia’s Physical Science with his sister, and get high school credit for it. This way, they can work together on experiments, and when Biology rolls around again next year, I only have to supervise on more frog dissection. His other courses include MUS’s Pre-algebra, and using SOS for Language and History. He’s also doing very well with his swimming, and has already passed the deep end swim test!
You have been doing a great job in teaching the kids…! They have become very smart teens with all of the time that you spend with them on their education… love you and great job…!