The first 2 weeks of Keilee’s High School Adventure is in the record books and it went really well!
It was really a seamless transition back to school. Keilee was VERY ready to start back.
She loves Psychology and keeps doing all these ‘experiments’ on me. One thing she did was asked me to talk for 2 minutes without pausing while she used “Talk to Text” to record it. She said, “Mom they did it for hours in the experiment but I’m not going to make you do that”. Gee thanks babe. It was honestly harder than it looked! I did a lot of ‘and yes I’m still talking and I can’t wait until this is over’ kind of talking. She decided to create a Facebook Page with a few friends so she could use them as guinea pigs! I thought that was a really GREAT idea! 😉
She loves “The History of the Ancient World”. It is SO similar to SOTW. I got the audio from Audible so she reads and listens at the same time. The Guide is very helpful too.
Algebra is ……well Algebra. I am very lucky that a dear friend gave us Saxon Algebra last year [No we didn’t finish it and plan to this semester] but we don’t love it. In trying to keep this real, we kinda despise it. Not every lesson is like this but a few are just like pulling fingernails. I don’t know if it is so much Saxon’s fault as just “Algebra’s” fault. I am trying to figure out what to do before my television gets broken from me throwing the book through it.
She is using LifePrint for sign langauge and has honestly learned so much quickly. She keeps asking me to quiz her and it surprises me what she has learned.
But our favorite is Southern Literature. So far we have read 3 short stories; “Childhood: The Biography of a Place”;
A Southern Landscape” and “State Champions.” We have really enjoyed them and learned so much. Words like galluses, brogans, cutworms and citrons. We realized we saw citrons at our Farmer’s Market but didn’t know what they were. We read about a church with a gold finger pointing to the heavens and Googled it. It is a real place. We also read in the same story about Windsor Mansion, a beautiful plantation home that burned down in the late 1800’s. Also a real place! I told Keilee is reminds me of a grown up version of Five in A Row. Well at least the way we are doing it. Most of the authors so far have YouTube videos we have watched also.
Keilee worked so hard getting her things ready for her first Market this week. She had beautiful things but there was very little turnout. She did sell a couple of things and we met an amazing homeschool family who own a nearby farm so it was all good. I absolutely love that homeschooling gives her the time to explore these things that she loves. I have found out over the years that a Keilee who has time to create is a much happier Keilee. She draws so much of her energy from making beautiful things.
One thing about living here that I love is all the connections Keilee and I make. I posted this on Instagram and really started thinking about it. Every memory I have of things from age 9-22 are in this house. And Keilee’s will be too. Our Christmas morning memories will be in the same room. She jumps up on the same kitchen counter I jumped up on. We ride bikes down the same alley and walk the same streets. These pictures are at the elementary school a few blocks from our house. My brothers and I rode our bikes and had a tree house and spent hours playing here. This is the same bridge, minus the handrails, that we played on. Connections are beautiful.
Keilee has decided that homeschoolers need a secret sign to use. We met one of our very good friends because Keilee insisted I asked her at Wal-Mart if they homeschooled. She was there during the day with 5 kids and her sons were actively engaging with their Mom so Keilee was sure they were homeschooled. 🙂 She was right.
In other news I GOT A JOB!! It is a very small job with very little money. Not enough to actually completely support us but it is perfect for right now. And it could grow into something bigger. And it is with a Christian Non-Profit that has been in operation in our town for 47 years. AND it is WORK FROM HOME!!! I will blog more about it later.
I’m going to try to be better about posting. Honestly I totally blame Instagram. I know everyone doesn’t have Instagram but it is just so much easier to post one picture and a small ‘post’ than to edit pictures and post on my blog. That being said, Keilee and I LOVE going back to previous years and months to see what we were doing so I do what to keep blogging.
I hope everyone is having a great school year; if you’ve started yet that is.
Homeschooling Rocks!!!
Karen
“Educators – like musicians, journalists, carmakers, and bankers before them – won’t know what hit them. But as sure as change is overtaking every other sector of society, it will overtake education – as well it should. Our cookie-cutter, one-pace-fits-all, test-focused system is not up to the task of teaching the creators of the new Googles.” – Jeff Jarvis in Hacking Education
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Mary at “Collage Friday” Woohoo Welcome back Mary 🙂
Lisa at “My Week In Review”
I was wondering if you don’t mind me asking? What are the authors of those southern lit. books you read? Dakota, my daughter, said if she lived in Alabama she so would have bought the tutu dress 🙂
It’s great to see how high school is starting out for you. My daughter is interested in sign language, so I will have to check out the link in your post. Thanks for sharing!
Your Kailee is looking more beautiful each day! My creative 11 y.o. daughter is also trying to sell her creations. 🙂 Now she is trying to start a cupcake business. It never ends here at home. 🙂
I am so glad you got a job. God provides! Always!
I wish we were closer so you could teach my girls souther lit. It sounds simply wonderful. We are almost ready to start in earnest here. We kick off Thursday with a big day planned.
I completely understand the IG vs. Blogging dilemma. I have said before if I could find a company that would print photos AND comments, I would leave blogging…..
Congratulations on the new job. I’m really happy for you. Also really happy that high school is going so smoothly – well except for Algebra. Miss 13 sendS Keilee her sympathies over that. She’ll be tackling Saxon Algebra 1 next year and is not looking forward to it. But I doubt it is Saxon’s fault. She hasn’t liked anything else we’ve tried and we have it on the shelf so her fate is sealed 🙂 Love how Keilee looks and sounds so positively and happily engaged in all her learning.
yay! “First two weeks of high school in the books….” Actually I don’t know how I feel about that, but we like the young women the girls are becoming, so I guess it’s good!
I love how Keilee takes such initiative with her learning. I love Psychology, too! I wonder what she learned from your two minutes of speaking…. 😉
I always love the connection that comes through that you and Keilee have with each other. We don’t have that and I think it is SO COOL that you do!!!
I am so glad you got a new job and it sounds like such a great fit for you. I like the idea of homeschool secret signal. There have been many times when I though I spotted some. Sometimes I talk to them but mostly I don’t. Usually if I have my kids with me I do.
I always love catching up with you each week. How wonderful that you found a job.
Blessings, Dawn
History is so much more interesting the way we do it right? My 8th grade son is reading Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy from 1453 to the Present.
HA! “Algebra is well – Algebra.” seriously!
looks like another great week for y’all. Her smile is so easy!
I like your kind of school and I’m glad you guys are enjoying it! Keilee learns so much! You two have created a lovely life for yourselves. Congrats on the job! I’ll be praying that it turns into a totally supporting job!
Oh, yay, yay, yay for the new job!! You must be over the moon. And from home as well. It couldn’t be better. I’m so pleased for you!
I too love seeing what you are up to because each post is so full of goodness and is wonderfully inspiring. I hope the next two weeks are just as wonderful.
My son also hates algebra even though in general he is a very strong maths student. He just keeps wondering why we need to know it!
See, I told you that high school is really not a whole lot different than 8th grade. I knew you two would transition smoothly. Love all the beautiful photos.
Funny how sometimes you will mention something about your daily life and it triggers a memory for me about Decatur. When you simply mentioned alleys behind the homes I remembered that our home in Decatur and a lot of the other homes had alleys for garbage pickup. That is the only city I have every lived in that had that. Never again did I have an alley in the backyard. I remember crossing them in our subdivision to get to friend’s houses. Funny how memories work. Looks like you guys had a great week. So happy for you and the new job.
Blessings
Diane
Wonderful news on the job! It sounds like an awesome opportunity!
Wonderful first two weeks. All the colors on the table at the market. Keilee certainly has a way with color and design.
I love that Keilee is able to make memories in the same places as you too! We live in the same metro area as I did most of my life, but that’s about it.
Congratulations on the job!! I hope it is enjoyable and fulfilling for you. It sounds lovely.
I love seeing you both on IG 🙂 What a wonderful start back to your homes cool year and YAY! on the job! I hope you and Keilee have a fabulous weekend!
A post from you is always a gift. 🙂
Love seeing what you are up to! I think I would really like the southern literature for me!! LOL So glad that you have a new job! Yay!