Join our little family as we meander through our first years homeschooling. D, a first grader is our "official student", but his twin sisters, J and A will be joining our studies as Pre-K students. Our first year is a little eclectic as we learn what will help us best http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pathfinder/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:48:00 -0500 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:48:00 -0500 Today was our second day of first grade and D was having a lot of fun. But at times he can really dilly dally and is always the last at the table for meals. I don't generally push him in school, but go at his comfortable pace; but today it was SLOW for awhile. Not because he couldn't do the work but because he enjoyed being slow. I said, "Let's move it along buddy or we will be here until the cows come home!" (Naturally he hasn't an inkling of what this means! LOL) D puckers his lips and (in a voice not unlike Old Mrs. Harris in Anne of Avonlea after reading Abraham Pringle's diaries stating that her husband was a cannibal, when she said, "My husband never 'et' anybody!"): "There will be no cows tonight! We do not allow cows in our house!" I laughed until I cried. It was not so much what he said but how he said it. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pathfinder/373473/ Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:48:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pathfinder/373473/ Today we started our first day of home school for the 2007-2008 school year.  My son D is in first grade and is a reading maniac.  His twin sisters, A above and J below are doing pre-K coursework.  My hubby is a special education teacher and does not go back until the 3rd of September.  He is helping me with the girls over the next couple weeks so that I can get a good idea where D is at and get organized.  So far it went pretty well.  I am not as organized as I want to be but that is a work in process! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pathfinder/372722/ Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:23:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pathfinder/372722/ Welcome to our homeschooling blog where I hope to record our journey as a homeschooling family.  My husband is a special education teacher in the public school system and I worked for ten years as a pediatric medical assistant.  We are late in life parents with three children, our son D, who is almost 6 and our identical twin daughters J and A who are 4 3/12 years old.  D will begin first grade August thirteenth and is a delight to teach.  His sisters are a little more challenging and it will take some time to figure out how best to teach them.  We have many ideas in our heads about how we would like to homeschool, but being new to this, we don't know which ones will actually work.  In essence, this first year is probably "experimental"! LOL We live in northern California and we are filing a private school affidavit.  The name we have chosen for our school is Pathfinder Academy.  I will be explaining and discussing that more in further posts. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pathfinder/367669/ Fri, 3 Aug 2007 22:17:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pathfinder/367669/