McKinley Point Academy

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. ~Proverbs 24:3-4

• Feb. 9, 2007 - Week 21 Review

We are on week 21 and we are out of the woods! We are onto the Polar Regions next!

We whizzed through LA this week and finished it all by Wednesday. See below for a picture of our ever growing Letter Wall. We also finished all of the Animal Worlds reading early, too. I started reading aloud the chapter books again. We are reading Mr. Popper's Penguins. So far Mei is not too interested in it. In math, we started subtraction. She seems to get it!

We are participating in two valentine exchanges - Winter Promise families and HSFCC (home schoolers with adopted Chinese children). It was challenging for her to write out the many valentines, but it has been great fun to receive them! Mei especially enjoyed receiving the one from the WP family in China. BTW - it only costs 84 cents to mail a valentine to China.

I attended an International Festival at Mark's school this week. Since they will be teaching Mandarin there next year, they recently got a bunch of books about China. I enjoyed looking at them and can't wait to see if our library has them! I did get some questions about Mei going to school there next year. I didn't tell them that Mark was not coming back.

As I was driving home, I started questioning myself about our decision to continue homeschooling Mei and bringing Mark home. I was feeling guilty. But I knew it was not from God - since God has already affirmed our decision to home school. I guess that is part of being a home schooler - defending your decision - even if it just to yourself. Funny, I expected to have to defend our decision to adopt internationally - but that hasn't been challenged as much as I anticipated. I can see that the home schooling decision will be challenged more.

Hope you have a great week!

Mei sorting the mail to find those valentines!