New School Year: 2005-2006

We started on August 7 and have had a wonderful first couple of weeks already.

Jacob:
Parttime enrolled at Lakota Freshman, taking Spanish 1 and Band.

Weekly Saxophone lessons (third year)

Studying at co-op: biology, algebra 1, and PowerPoint

English: Help for High School Writing (my program) and Online Literature (Slingshot Companion)

Liam:
Jacob's Mathematics daily

Brave Writer Arrow and handwriting book

Weekly freewriting

Junior Zoologists this fall for science

Caitrin:
Handwriting and freewriting

Reading books for herself (right now, Girls of Many Lands novels)

Rosetta Stone Chinese and New Testament Greek

Co-op: nature study, art, P.E. and music and drama

Fall Soccer

Together:

We've read The Master Puppeteer and Ella Enchanted.

We have Tuesday Teatimes with poetry.

We've taken two trips to the zoo, several trips to the YMCA for swimming and have worked on some of the chapters in Murderous Maths.