I have just been sitting here thinking about how this next school year is going to go. Elijah will be studying first grade materials. I'm going with a new curriculum this year and I'm so excited about it! It is tons of reading (history and literature) and of course the basics (reading, writing and arithmetic)plus science(real science for children)! It is going to require a lot more family time reading together. I love that.
The girls will also be home this next school year. Molly won't technically be schooling yet but I feel like she is going to want to work along with Josie on learning to write and recognized letters and numbers. I'm really excited about Josie's first year of homeschooling. It brings with it plenty of difficulties I'm sure. Josie is a completely different learning style than Elijah or Molly, she is so much like me. While this information should help me it actually causes me much confusion because I have never really pin pointed how I work! I'm going to be using an awesome writing system called Hand Writing Without Tears. I has all these wonderful hands on activities that touch on all the learning styles. I'm very curious to see how well it works for my girls.
Josh of course will still be schooling as well, getting closer to the end of that path. He is so amazing. I only hope that I will prove to be half as diligent as he is with my work. We are hoping that he will be able to work on both his teaching degree and masters at the same time this next year. If so, he will be completely done by the end of next summer! Two degrees and a masters, who would have thought?!
Meanwhile, I have applied and been accepted to Liberty University. I'm very excited! I won't begin taking courses till the fall and it will probably take many years to complete but by the time I'm done, my children will no longer need me as a teacher and I'll be able to apply my degree to a career of some sort. I really would love to be able to use the knowledge I gain from this in missions some how. Of course, only God knows how this will all work out. I'm happy to be on the journey though.
