May. 29, 2006 - Inspiration
Yesterday, I was at my dad's house with the kids and he said something to me that really made me feel great. He said that a lot of people would be too scaried to homeschool their kids and that I am doing a great thing by homeschooling SaraKate.
He then gave me my birthday card and in it her wrote, "Your doing a lot of good things that will have a great impact on the lives of others, keep it up."
That really made me feel so good about my decision to homeschool. Out of everyone I have told about my homeschooling experience I thought my dad would give me the hardest time with my decision and to know that he is cheering me on made it all the better for me.
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May. 23, 2006 - FCAT scores for Ty
Tyler did great on his FCAT testing this year. He scored a 1953 in Reading, grade level is 1622. In Math he scored a 1850, grade level is 1692. He thought he had done bad in reading but he in fact scored higher this year than any other year.
I also noticed that he scored just a little higher than SaraKate when he was in 3rd grade and that has given SaraKate some great hope that in a few year's she will be able to have really high test's scores too.
She read two chapter's of Junie B. Jones today and enjoyed it.
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May. 22, 2006 - Amazing Monday
May 22, 2006
Well, today SaraKate finished reading Junie B. Jones I have a Peep in my Pocket. After she finished reading me the book she told me that she likes to read books. I am so amazed and thrilled. SaraKate has never liked to read because she found it such a stuggle and to hear her tell me that she likes to read is such a huge answer to my prayers.
I want all three of my kids to have a love of reading and to hear the one who hates to read the most telling me she likes reading is a huge milestone. I hope that she continues to like to read and continues to want me to read to her and to listen to her read.
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May. 19, 2006 - Last day of school
May 19, 2006
Well, I homeschooled for almost 2 months. I have been frustrated some days and so proud other days. SaraKate has learned much more than I thought. She has learned half of her mulitiplacation tables, and half of her states. She is starting to like to read more. Now that is a huge step toward the love of learning that I am hoping to get with my children.
I feel like she has learned more in two months working with me full-time than she had for 7 months in public school. It totally makes me secure in my decision to homeschool her.
http://www.byki.com/getTLLists.pl this is a site you can go to and download free foreign language's. I downloaded it for French, Spanish, and Korean.
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May. 18, 2006 - Boring Day
May 18, 2006
We didn't do much today. We went to the library to get some new books, and to Target, and health food store.
SaraKate read a chapter of a Junie B. Jones book, we went over some spelling words in the car, and she will do her lesson of language arts on SOS in a few minutes. She is so ready for the school year to be over and so am I.
I plan to keep her reading every day this summer and to also have my oldest reading every day too and both kids doing educational games online.
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May. 16, 2006 - Tuesday rainy day
Today SaraKate read to me a chapter out of Junie B. Jones and we did a page of math. We are going to read another chapter later today and work on SOS language arts. It has been a rainy day her and glummy. We got a new turtle today and named him Tiny, he is a red slider.
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May. 15, 2006 - Testing
May 15, 2006
Well today is the last day for testing for SaraKate. We are trying to figure out if she has a learning disablility and if so what kind.
I have decided to use Saxton Math for next year for her and to do TON"S of reading at her reading level. I am feeling much more assurd of what I am doing today, but that changes daily.
Wish me luck!!
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May. 12, 2006 - Stressed out!!!
I started homeschooling SaraKate 6 weeks ago and some days are great and magical and other day's, I think why the heck did I do this.
I got her FCAT test scores today in the mail and she is a little below grade level in Math and way below in Reading. I feel like a failure as a mother. I have worked with her in the evenings, I paid a tutor for her and I sent her to after school tutoring for the past 2 years for Reading and she still is way below.
I keep telling myself that is why I took her out of school so that I can spend more time teaching her and I can only hope that this is going to make her a better reader. But some days it is hard since I am chasing a 2 year old around and trying to keep my house clean too.
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