Struggles of this Homeschooling Mom

WOO HOO!!!!! 

Super excited to start our school year tomorrow morning!  I am a tad nervous though with implementing all the dyslexia stuff.  I know it will help, and I know it will become easier as we go.  I am sure the first few days will be an adjustment! 

My day will begin at 6AM
Do my hour workout
Bible time
Shower
Breakfast
School to start by 9AM
Done by 2:30

Now those of you who know me don't worry...I will fit in my coffee breaks throughout there.

I have a schedule set up for the "school day".  I have it broken down into 30 minute intervals.  Cuckles is doing 1st grade, and she will be done with school by 1PM where the other 2 will go until 2:30. 

I have found with my girls that we have to do reading FIRST thing in the morning.  Since Hunter is my most severe with the dyslexia, I have her reading first.  But also for Hunter, this year, for her writing I have her reading a number of verses in proverbs every day and journaling.  That she has to do BEFORE school starts.(There are 36 official school weeks, so if we do 1 chapter a week it will be ALMOST perfect)  Since she is up early, she can do it while I do my workout, do my bible study, or make breakfast.  I am also anticipating that we will be done with school earlier as some things are not going to take a full 30 minutes to do.

Now math is going to be a different story :-)  I have a full hour blocked off for Math.  It is complicated what I have decided to do for math, but I will explain it the best I can ;-)  The math program I use is Math U See.  Now I am admitting that I NEVER watched the videos.  So for the past 3 years I have been doing it wrong...well not wrong, just not beneficial...as the program was designed.  So I FINALLY watched the DVD and I have decided to put them all in the same math class.  I ordered Hunter and Logan the same book as Dillan and we will work through it all together.  Although a lot will be super easy for Hunter....so I am going to have her do 3 lessons a day, then only test her on the unit tests....then she will get through all 3 books (addition, subtraction, and multiplication) this school year.  I figured with her struggling so much it would just be worse if I introduced Division this year with her so behind with her math facts.  But I think I can catch her up just fine this year. 

Now the stuff I learned at my dyslexia class I have decided to do in the evenings.  That way Allan can join as he is dyslexic, he will definitely benefit from these exercises :-) Although going over the schedule with Allan I might have to readjust this decision...our evenings seem to be filling up..Church Wednesday, Science Thursday...

I asked Allan to take over the science for this year.  It is a 2 day/week program, so he is going to do that with the girls Thursday evenings, and Saturday's. So I am thinking the dyslexia stuff will be 4 evenings a week!  I am relieved that Allan was willing to take over the Science...It is 1 thing off my plate :-)  He is SOOOOO wonderful!

Also we are starting a family Tae Kwon Do class on Friday afternoons.  I am SUPER excited for this.  It is offered through the home school group and it is nice we can take the class together as a family.  I am sure it will be beneficial for us all :-)

I hope my next blog post is a positive one.  I am excited to share with you what all happens with the dyslexia stuff...and my own abilities ;-)