Home Schooling: Online School and Other Updates

Bubs is now enrolled in an online school. I am being blessed with the opportunity to play a major roll in his schooling and I will still have the security of being with a public school. I am considered a learning coach and he will still have an education specialist who is a certified teacher from our state. He will have regular assessments so I will be able to see if I am adequately teaching him. I am SO excited!

As of late, part of our bedtime routine is singing with baby. Both Bubs and Boo are doing a great job matching pitch and tone with me. Bubs is even beginning to harmonize. I am so excited and proud! Baby is also impressing me with his desire to sing at nine months old. Boo was the same way though! My children are truly amazing!

The only other news on the "home schooling" front is that Bubs love of reading seems to have been rekindled. He's doing a great job on word recognition. He's also been doing some neat things, teaching himself to write words by looking at DVD/VHS cases and writing what he sees. He knows the words as well, since he is familiar with the movies. It's great!

Home Schooling: Music and Arts

All of the kids have been very interested in music the past few weeks. We are constantly singing around the house. Usually to the tune of Clementine or You are My Sunshine. The kids even learned our address and phone number that way. :) Today I got Classical Baby in the mail. It has Dance, Art and Music. I also have a children's art history book on the way. There were several I wanted to order, but I figured I would check out what looked to be the most interesting/informative/kid friendly first. Another musical thing we are interested in our home is Tuvian throat singing. It's fascinating. We are having fun making different sounds with our voices and various objects we have around. Ooh! Another thing that I recently got which is surprisingly educational is a Purr-pals Nintendo DS game. I got it for Boo since she doesn't have any DS games of her own. She is only two so play will be extremely limited. The game is all about grooming/loving/playing with kittens. There are mini-games that include playing music as notes go by, and memory games involving more music. I'm so excited about it. Bubs likes it a lot too already. Yay! This month we will be starting homeschooling for Kindergarten. I am very excited. I hope it goes as well as I think it will. :D