If you would have told me that I was going to Homeschool our kids I would have thought you were crazy! Never in a million years would I have ever made the choice to homeschool but I actually really enjoyed it. If I was going to continue to homeschool I would do it differently than it was set up for this which was watching a lot of things on YouTube etc. I would want to learn about the topic and actually teach the material. This worked okay for short term homeschool though. Emmy's topics were more things that I got to present in different ways that were interesting to her. All the kids did a great job of adjusting to such a change in their lives.
It was hard for Emmy because she missed her teacher so much. Mrs. Emeigh was such a great teacher. We all missed her. It was sad to not have closure to the end of her Kindergarten year but she will get to see all of her friends next year!
Abby didn't get to have her end of the year tunnel walk, they did a drive through one but it wasn't the same. This is also her last year in the intermediate school. Next year she will be going to Middle School. She is a little nervous because usually they would have got to eat lunch at the Middle School, meet the teachers and take a tour before they started the year there next fall. I can't believe she will be in Middle School already!
Most of the Middle school teachers understood the limitations of homeschool learning, except the science teacher! Every week they would have a super involved project that included a research paper, power point slides, evidence and conclusions. I have no idea how kids passed that didn't have parents helping them. To make it worse, after spending 5-6 hours a week on this one class, she would always have at least 1 if not 2 things that she had to knit pick at. The boys were super frustrated with her, for good reason. They would email her questions and never get an answer. I would email her and hear back within minutes. It almost became a game to see if she would ever respond back to her students or just a mom. Anyway, we passed! It was super painful but we passed!
It's hard to believe that the boys only have one more year of middle school before they will be high schoolers!
Lucy loves having us home but she hides to take naps now.
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