This is our attempt to keep you all updated on the daily craziness and educational happenings here in the Kyzer Jr Family!! I hope to be able to post updates on the children's schooling,  recent field trips and whatever else interesting is going on. This will be like our little newsletter.

To begin, I will give a quick synopsis of how our school  looks this year. All four of the children are schooling at home. Jenna began in the local K5, but we decided we'd prefer to have her back home with us. Her pops helps a lot with her schooling. She likes that! Abbey is a busy little bee this year. She is going to ballet, Girl Scouts and a once a month sewing club. Benn is still taking trumpet lessons. He wants to try violin next, so we are looking into that. He is also involved in Boy Scouts. He enjoys that very much. Eli is taking guitar lessons. He has just begun book two out of three books! All of the kids are attending a local art class and a local PE class.  They also attend a once a month 4H science class, which I happen to be teaching. Our Mondays and Tuesdays are pretty busy, but the rest of the week we are mostly home. We have also planned all of these activities close to home. So we are never more than 15 minutes away, which is pretty amazing when you consider where we live!

The boys have just switched from Horizon Math to Bob Jones Math curriculum. We are looking forward to this change. Horizon was just not working for us. We are finishing up their Apologia Botany study and will be moving on to Apologia Astronomy this month. For the girls I usually plan some simple corresponding activities.  I think Benn is about sick of plants, so this will be a good change. We are studying the Middle Ages in History. Still using The Story of Our World curriculum. This is a great curriculum that crosses grades well, so I can use it with all of the children. Last year we studied Ancient History. One of our goals is to work on writing skills this year and so far everyone has done some good work. We will be sure and share that later! Jenna is zooming through any work we plan for her. She is lots of fun to teach as long as you keep her busy! Abbey  is just becoming such a well rounded student. I am very proud of all of the kids this year!

Our system of five weeks on and one week off is working very well. The kids all work very hard because they know they have some play time coming up!

OK. maybe this wasn't so quick, but there is a glimpse of how this year's school is looking. We will look forward to sharing more! Feel free to leave us comments!!