Week 2 almost down, 34 weeks to go!

Our football kid

Here we are! Almost through week 2! GVA has been quite a learning curve. For those who don't know, GVA is a public charter school that is a virtual school. All of the students work from home, with the parents as a "learning coach." It is just like homeschooling, but I am now accountable to a GVA teacher and the state for getting the material taught. Last week we schooled pretty consistently from 8:30am until 10pm, taking only brief breaks for lunch and dinner. Daniel had football four nights last week (6-8:30), so when he got home, I'd hit the books again with him. There has been no TV, no games, no friends, until yesterday! We worked really hard and took the afternoon off to meet up with friends who have a lake on their property. So we tubed on the lake and played in the water. Now, here I am again at 9pm still trying to get through a couple more lessons! Once these munchkins are a bit more independent, I'm hoping the day will go quicker! It dominates our lives at this point.

And then there is the baby! He is so very social. He loves being held and easily distracts us! We can't help grabbing him up to cuddle. School came way to soon for us. We'd all much rather just play with Joseph!


Joanna and Joseph

School's In for Summer

Well, it's August 11th and we're in our last week before school officially begins. I'm sitting with my two big boys going through the "OLS" - the online learning school that they will be using this year as a part of GVA. Yep, we're officially in public school... at home! I'm very excited about getting started with the boys. All three will be learning as a part of Georgia's Virtual Academy (K-12 curriculum). Joanna is doing Sonlight's Core 200 this year studying the History of God's Kingdom. I can't wait for that to begin. We'll be learning about the affects of Christ's coming, and the early church all the way through the reformation!

I do love homeschooling! I'm hoping that we'll get an "IEP" for Daniel, should we need it. I'm ready for him to be more independent in his schoolwork. This year? Jo's in 9th, Daniel- 6th, Nicholas 4th and Anthony- 2nd. It definitely creeps up on you. It seems like just last year I was only schooling 3 children and Anthony was toddling around. Now they're all in different places and schooling separately from each other, which means much "Teacher Duty."

OH, BTW. Our new teaching spot is... the basement. Eeeww! Spiders! We kill at least two a day!