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Our second week went very well. Alisha, Seth, Andrew , Nathan and Hannah completed their first week of TOG and our discussion time went well. We ended up spending about 30 minutes in discussion, which I hope to expand as we get used to TOG.

Alisha and Seth are using Chalk Dust pre-algebra and they are settling into a routine and finding a pattern that works for them. They wll watch lesson 1.5 on Monday and do the problems on Tuesday. They are  also both doing Apologia gen science and are moving slowly though the first module. I had planned for them to be done with it by yesterday, but it will probably be Wednesday before they are finished. I am going to work with them on mapping the modules out so they finish each one in two weeks.

Nathan is on lesson 3 in Barton's and has been having a bit of trouble with a few of the sounds so we are spening a few days reviewing before moving on. He has been doing well with his other subjects and his favorite is Apologia's Astronomy.

Hannah enjoyes reading Made Easy and is making progress. She loves sounding out the words and it's so exciting to see it clicking for her.

William has just about finished all his Kumon books and I am going to need to order some more. I love these little books and they keep him occupied so I can work with the older children. They are worth every penny!

Alisha has a sketch book she is working through and she did the picture below, which I think came out wonderful!

Well we made it through the first week of school and I think it went very well! I have pictures of the first day here  . We started early Monday morning with gift bags for the kids with their school supplies and a special treat of danish and juice boxes.

We started lite this year and each day we did Bible, math, science, english and reading and my 10th grader did his IEW lessons.. We were  finished by 11:00-12:00 each day and had plenty of time to play.

Today we added TOG into our day and the kids will do some of their reading later on this afternoon. Here is Andrew's timeline picture of creation:

Hannah was so excited to start kindergarten this week and here are a few of her worksheets:

( yes I know she circled 6 and not 7 above lol)

And a narration from Apologia's Astronomy book:

Nathan's handwriting:

We also started art today using Atelier. We did the first half of lesson one of level 6a. Below are the pictures of them doing their color wheels:

Alisha's finished color wheel:

And their pictures of under the sea, which we will finish next week by adding the fish:

And:

Hannah and William made puppets:

And:

We had a GREAT first week!

We started school today and here are a few pictures of our morning:

My 18 yo this morning at 6, before he left for his first day at the university:

Getting their school supplies:

Hannah and me doing math:

Hannah and William working:

The kids working:

Danny working at his desk:

Alisha watching her math DVD ( She is using chalk dust pre-algebra):

 My oldest before she left for work as a vet nurse:

Here is our 2008-2009 school schedule. The times listed are not etched in stone and are more for guidance for me that anything. We will work down the list in order and when we are finished, we are done for the day.

We have co-op every other Thursday and need to leave by 12:30, so we wont do TOG, IEW and English those days

My 12th and 10th graders work pretty much independently and they don't follow our time schedule, but I listed them so I can see what everyone is supposed to be doing.  My 12th grader will do most of his studies are the community college.

I also didn't add William, who is 3, but he has some Kumon books to work on while Hannah is doing her K work.

The kids had fun painting this morning!

I am slowly getting things together and organizing. We worked on the school room over the weekend and it's pretty much finished. I am waiting on a few books and my www.classroomdirect.com order, which is our art supplies. I'd like to put up some more room decorations and one of these days I will buy curtains and paint that ceilin  The wall above my desk needs something, but I don't know what?  Any ideas?

This picture is looking into the school room from the hallway entrance:

This is from the living room entrance:

The bookshelves:

The calandar area and our schedules and chore charts. My DS put up the pictures, didn't he do a good job!

As of today I am down 101 pounds and have gone from 267 to 166. The picture on the right is me at 242 and the left was taken Tuesday, when I was 167 LOL. I don't have one of me at 267 because I wasn't allowing anyone near me with a camera. My goal is 140 and I can not believe I am almost there! ( ignore my funny face in the pic on the left, my son caught me off guard)