We’re Officially Homeschoolers
It was a great day. It was so fun to watch the kids rejoice and play the day away. Our meetings went well with the school. We have made the decision to homeschool next year – Christian only. Ryan will be going back to the private school, as he his excelling there, and Dane will be attending pre-school as well. It was not a decision we made lightly, but we believe it is the right decision. There just isn’t much offered in terms of helping Christian with what he needs in the public or private school at this time. There are tutors that specialize in the type of training he needs, but they are all over a hour away. We will resort to them as needed, but plan to start out using the Barton Curriculum that is designed for dyslexic students. We then will use Sonlight for the rest of our curriculum – we used that for Ryan in Kindergarten and loved it! Our hope is to have him back to grade level by next year. The school psychologist said he is on the upper end in the IQ arena – he just struggles with reading – which is what we knew all along.
We went out to dinner tonight to celebrate the last day of school. I let Ryan and Christian pick where we were going since it was their celebration. I was quite surprised at their choice – The little Family Restaurant in town. I thought they would pick Dairy Queen, or our favorite pizza place, or even our favorite drive-in (for the ice-cream) but they wanted pancakes of all things and decided the tow diner was the place to go! It was fun, and yummy too! Matt had some kind of big burrito and I had a Turkey Club Sandwich.
On a side note, there is currently a contest running to win a really cute hand-crafted coupon organizer. Go check it out! There are some really cute designs, and I personally just LOVE Etsy shops anyway!
Have a GREAT Weekend!
C-
