{Not} Back-to-School Blog Hop ~ Meet the Students

It's Student Photo Week at iHomeschool Network's {Not} Back-to-School Blog Hop. I would like to introduce to you the 2013/2014 students of Pursuit Academy.

We have students here, there, and everywhere. And each year we have homeschooled it has been different. This year we have one starting Cosmetology school in October, one in our public high school, and two homeschooled 3rd/4th graders. Here they are:

I'll update this with her 1st day photo once she starts school.

Kyndal is our oldest. She is 18 years old and graduated from public high school in May. She is enrolled in cosmetology school and begins her classes on October 1st. She will spend 8 weeks doing all of her classwork and then will move out to the salon for training. Her schooling will be complete in September of 2014.

Dawson is our second child. He is 16 years old and is a junior at the public high school where I graduated. This year he is taking Algebra I, U.S. Government, Chemistry, English III, Drawing/Painting, Multi-Media, and FTA (tutoring in Geometry to work toward his A+ Scholarship requirements).

Eli is our third child. He is 9 1/2 years old and is in his second year of homeschooling. Eli is currently a 3rd grader and will promote to 4th grade in January (although we call our younger two 4th graders already). His classes this year are Old Testament, Grammar, Handwriting, Spelling, Multiplication, Writing, Personal reading, U.S. Geography, Science (various unit studies), and a year-long Literature study with Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling.

Brynne is our youngest child. She is 8 years old and has homeschooled since her 6th week of kindergarten. Brynne is currently a 3rd grader and will promote to 4th grade in January. Her classes are the same as Eli's as they are homeschooled together.

If you would like to read more personal information about each of the kids, you can go to my recent post "U is for Us".

ABCya

Eli's reading resource teacher shared a website with me yesterday that I would like to pass along. It's called ABCya . There are separate educational sections with fantastic games for ages kindergarten through 5th grade. I browsed the 2nd grade level, and it includes age-appropriate games about Letters, Numbers, Shapes, Geometry, Patterns, Mouse Manipulation, Art and Holiday games. There are lots and lots of fun and creative games for children to play. They are fun, but oh, so educational. Eli's favorite, in his short time playing it, was Create a Car . A lot of the games also have Apps available for purchase (99 cents for most of them) for the iPad and iPhone. I have been looking for another free website for games similar to Starfall , for some time. I think I have found it. I can feel confident having Eli and Brynne play these games.

Cells ~ It's What's for Dinner

Dawson made edible cells on Friday. He made an animal cell pizza ... and a plant cell chocolate chip cookie ... He reviewed what he's learned about cells the past two weeks, and I had dinner made by someone else. Win, win!! I am linking up at Science Sunday at Adventures in Mommydom.

Last Child in the Woods ~ Chapters 1-4

Welcome to our book study of Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv. To be honest, I have no idea what this "study" is going to look like. I imagine that when we get together I will post about all of the things that caught my eye. And I would ask that you leave a comment, or a link to your own blog post in the comment, about what caught yours. This isn't anything formal, ladies, just a place to talk about what we have read. I have now read the first four chapters of Last Child in the Woods two times. It is just so good. Several things have specifically hit me deep, but in general I just realized that "times, they are a changin'." Things aren't the way they were when we were kids. Chapter 1. Gifts of Nature ~ "When I see birches bend to left and right ... I like to think some boy's been swinging them." ~ Robert Frost What is your definition of nature? What feelings, visions, senses does it conjure up? For me, it's not a

AnonymousAugust 20, 2013 at 11:02 AM
Love the boards. So clever. =)
Your year outline sounds fabulous.
Yeah, thinking we will do a similar outline too for Road Trip USA. We may need to only do 3 lessons per week as I tend to get side tracked easily. I always have the best intentions, lol.

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