As summer wraps into fall and schools everywhere are trying to figure out how to conduct classes due to the lingering Covid issue, we are pulling out our books and diving into the new school year in "business as usual" fashion. Thank God for homeschooling and our history with it. This year is another big year for our little one room school house as Nikolas will be graduating this year. So much to do in a Senior year! We'll be schooling and planning all year long until the culmination of our graduation celebration.
As an eighth grader, Connor is finishing up Jr. High this year. He is missing our church youth group meetings, but Nikolas' friend group has gathered siblings and made their own group that now includes Connor. It's a good group of kids and we're all excited that they are able to get together for fellowship times. Connor is looking forward to his science lessons and his assigned novels this year.
Sonja is in her last year of elementary school (though here, it's arguably the beginning of middle school. However, I like age split better when 7th and 8th grade is Jr High without 6th graders). Due to Covid, Sonja is not able to meet in youth group, but I felt she was a bit young for that anyway. However, one of her friends has a sibling in Nikolas' group which gives Sonja extra opportunities for social time as we can make the meetings dual purpose for our kids. :-) Sonja is looking forward to her art lessons and good stories this year.
Riley is in the fifth grade this year. It feels like a big jump for him. He's beginning to realize that as you advance in school you get more work to do and he's not really thrilled by that. :-) However, he's doing a great job handling his workload. Riley still isn't loving reading, but he's doing well with math.
Hannah is feeling super grown as a third grader this year. It feels so wrong that she's in 3rd grade--how did she get here so quickly? She's enjoying joining the other kids in group lessons this year, and her cursive is coming along quite well, but we really need to strengthen her reading skills.
It'll be a different kid of year as so many of our supplemental programs and activities have been Covid canceled (which makes for an especially boring Fall) :-( but we aim to make the most of it regardless. It's always neat to see how much the kids develop their skills in a school year--in that way, this year is no different. Bring on the books! :-)
