Wordless & Wordful Wednesday ~ Typical Week

Here is a typical week for Sam.  I take what's on his schedule and then re-do it for his week and usually add more lessons from the following week onto the current week.  At the rate he's going he'll be done with school by the first couple of weeks in May! For those of you that may not know he attends a virtual public school through Connections Academy and for the first time every he's a straight A student!  And he has been one all year!  WOO HOO!   

UPDATE:  I should add that he starts school around 9:00am and is usually finished around 1:30pm.

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First Week of School...How Is It Going So Far?

I have to say that I'm truly amazed at how school is going this first week.  I'm not saying that Sam is just LOVING school now because there are still times when he whines about doing it.  But we get the work done when it needs to get done.  In fact so far this week we have managed to be done between 1:00 and 2:00 in the afternoon.  We generally don't get started until around 8:30 and I let him take a good 10 minute break between his subjects.  He takes daily quizzes/assessments after every lesson and so far he's pulling A's!

I do have to say that this is a very new expierence for the both of us.  We're both learning what works and what doesn't work.  I must admit that on Tuesday I finally realized that the really BIG books for each of Sam's subjects were actually my books.  They were the lesson plans and answer keys.  Once I found them automatically I felt much better about how I was going to prepare for each day.

I'm really looking foward to his Art classes!  They are going into the history of art and have a really neat project every week.  You can make sure you'll see some of those projects on here!  I'm also looking forward to the field trips that we'll take.  We'll take some with Connections Academy, some with the local Connections families and some just on our own.  In fact one of the families is having an informal Back to School Get-Together tomorrow evening.  We'll get to meet kids in the same program in grades 3 through 8!  Great mix of ages I think.

I know I've talked a lot this past week about what we are doing for Sam and school but it's just so exciting for us.  Sam's writing (content and penmenship), communicating and self-esteem seem to be growing leaps and bounds! 

I'd love to hear how everyone else is doing during their first week of school (if you've already started that is).  Doesn't matter what school you're in!

Wordless & Wordful Wednesday ~ First Day of School

Here is Sam on his first day of school.  It still looks kind of bare but we're working on that.  In fact we're hanging up a cork board today.  If you would like to know more about what we are doing with Sam this year for school check out this post.  What I love about it most is that everything is done for me!

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First Day of School

First day of school went pretty well! Sam and I were done around 1:45 and that was with quite a few breaks and lunch! Now of course this evening while I was reading over things for tomorrow I realized that the huge books for each subject are actually for me and are the lesson plans for the year. I feel so much more prepared for tomorrow! Here is the desk and set-up that we have going for him. It's in a corner in our kitchen and seems to work really well. I will have a picture of him on his first day of school up tomorrow. To lazy to get it uploaded right now.

Public School???

With the school year about to begin I've been pretty worried about my son going into 5th grade and moving up to the Intermediate school. You see Sam has ADHD, ODD and Anxiety. Along with all of that he would be meeting up with some old bullies along with some current ones and his best (and pretty much only) friend moved into another school district. That alone was sending his anxiety level sky high as you can only imagine. With all of that in mind I started looking at different options that would be available to us. Sam has been begging me to homeschool him since he was in the 2nd grade. I would have felt comfortable back then but not anymore so that option was pretty much out of the picture (I would have had I not found something else). The something else that I found is Connections Academy. They are a FREE Online Public School. They provide all of the materials, supplies along with the computer and monitor! We have now have a desk for him and have everything set up and ready to go for tomorrow.  Can't wait to start this new venture.  Here is a video all about the school.  Check it out!