Homeschool blogging A to Z : C is for Chorus

I know I already used "Arts" in my A to Z blog, but I just got home from a chorus event.  It was the final chorus of the year.  After this is a piano and solo voice recital, and then graduation for the seniors.  16 of my kids friends are graduating this year, and a few other kids are going in different

Homeschooling A-Z: B is for Blogging

I don't know that I would have continued homeschooling for as long as I have if it had not been for blogging. Blogging has allowed me to share what I am doing with other homeschoolers, vent, and seek help.  It has helped me to know I am not alone.  It has given me a great deal of information and support that has sustained us over the years.

Sure, homeschooling existed before blogging became vogue, but blogging made

Homeschool blogging A to Z Intro: Arts

I decided to join the April Blogging from A to Z challenge (very late in the game) as a way to rejuvenate my  blogging dedication.  In view of changes to the internet and content writing in the past two months, I have decided to dedicated myself more fully to homeschooling and blogging about it.  That was always my path

Summer Plans for my Homeschoolers

This time of the year, I am usually focused on planning for next school year.  This time, I am busy planning for summer.  Unlike previous years, we are not homeschooling through the summer (for the most part), but I am sending the kids forth to participate in summer programs.

My daughter will spend a week at Wesleyan College in Macon for their Fine Arts Intensive Program.
She will then spend 2 weeks on a play at a theater in Atlanta (Fabrefaction), and spend another 2 weeks doing costuming for another play.

My son will spend 1 week at SCAD summer seminars (God willing) and then hopefully do an internship with the rest of his time.

I have ideas for back up plans in case my son's first choice of activities does not pan out.  We need to wait for acceptance letters.


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Attendance reporting for this year is done... No. We don't do sick days.

Just finished filling out attendance sheets for the rest of the year.  
I scheduled them to be emailed on the appropriate days.
At the end of April, we will have made the 180 school day requirement.
No.  nothing will change, so I felt comfortable filling them out in advance.

We don't do sick days.  If the kids get sick, I put them on the couch and hand them a book or put on some educational videos.  This is homeschooling people... real life.  They never stop learning, even when they feel a little yucky.

If something changes drastically, I can always cancel the scheduled email and make changes anyway... but at the end of it all, we do wayyyy more than 180 days a school year, so I am not worried about the details.

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It's tech week!... and other stuff

Tech week starts Saturday.  My daughter will have drama club rehearsal and set building every.single.day and for many hours each day.  All other learning will stop.  It will be hard for me to work.  We will be eating, sleeping, buying junk food and fast food, and getting back to business.

In anticipation of this production of Annie Get Your Gun, some of the boys in the drama club made a funny video.  Link here: 

oh, and here's my daughters finished ball gown for the show. We did some costume reshuffling.  Her purple ball gown was remodeled to be  her can-can outfit.  The top to the can-can outfit and underskirt are now the ballgown.  (We added alot of lace trim)


 In other news, the ACT is coming up a week after the show.  My sons (my son and his friend) practice test scores look very good.  Here's to hoping they don't panic on the test.

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As the year winds down

 As the school year winds down, I find my schedule filling up. 

We need to re-work drama club costumes for the play.

Finish up our curriculum for the year.(We might actually take the summer off!)

Get my son ready for his ACT

and so much more.

I planned to get the curriculum finished early because I knew the end of the school year was going to be hectic. I was right.

And when all of this is done, I need to finalize educational plans for the kids Jr. and Sr. years of homeschooling.

Yikes!

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