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I can´t believe that I am actually excited about one of my children going to school!!

But here is the situation.  We have been in Brasil for almost 2 years and Joshua wants to learn Portuguese but he needs more exposure to the language.  He already understands a lot of Portuguese but he just needs to speak it.  He needs to hear it on a daily basis.  We have talked about having friends come over and play but all of his friends at church are in school all morning.  So our solution is to send Joshua to school, a Brasilian Christian school.  He will start in the middle of the Kindergarten year, the schools run from Jan - Dec. here.  But we have asked them to put him in the class with the younger students.  Some of them are still 4 and there were some boys that are his size that are just like him (a little immature, just turned 5 and such)    He will go from 7:30 am to 11:30 am.  The school told us at that age they don´t do writing and reading.  So that falls in line with my goals for him.

 In the afternoon we may do some of the school work that I had planned but not all.  Since we plan to be here in Brasil for the next 18 years or so we want him to get a good foundation.  A year ago he was not ready for  a situation like this, he would have cried just talking about it but the time is right.  He is so excited.  The plans are to start him in August after the July vacation month here in Brasil.  We have plans to travel some ourselves.  I will take the camera and try to post some of the sites that we come across.

I´ll keep you posted on his progress and what I decided to do in the afternoons.  Nature study is still on my list but I may delay some of the other things.

Happy Homeschooling