Cathing up!

It is a beautiful day in Fairbanks! The sun feels so good coming through the dining room window and warming us as we do our studies this morning. It is -4F this morning, but the sun is shining and the coffee (and Katie's cocoa) is hot! We have about 4 or 5 inches of snow on the ground, but it hasn't snowed for a few days now. I think it is expected tomorrow though.

It's been a fairly crazy fall. Trying to figure out a schedule and curriculum that works for Katie's home school....plus construction projects...plus Rob going away to work in the village of Naknek a few times all ready this fall. We also have gotten a lot of construction & home improvement jobs done this fall as well. Now though in November, we are trying to iron out all the kinks in our first year homeschooling our daughter Katlynn. Who by the way just lost her first tooth last night! She is working on her Handwriting right now and we will be leaving for her horse back riding lessons in about 20 minutes. Our schedule is pretty busy on Mondays & Tuesdays always.
Katie has eight clear subjects at this point and I am working on getting her work samples together and turned in to our contact teacher at IDEA by Thursday. This requires a sample of each subject she is doing this 1st semester, besides her Bible Studies which are not counted by the state, but still included in her home school schedule.
Her Subjects:
1.)Bible Studies
2.)Social Studies/History & Geography
3.)Language Arts (Reading, writing, phonics)
4.)Science
5.)P.E./ Health (Horseback riding, swimming, skiing...etc)
6.)Music (soon Guitar, but currently just a history of)
7.)Art
8.) Auditory/Speech (Required by her IEP)

So...back to it. This is great for tracking progress and keeping her schedule.
I really need to organize this part of our lives first!:)

God Bless!