2018-19 in review

The girls had a very successful year and completed Years 5 and 7 with Ambleside Online! After posting my last review of the previous year, I feel much less frazzled and overall much happier with how the year turned out compared to last year this time.

For our Circle Time sessions in the morning, I had set out to accomplish quite a bit but it took me an entire term to realize that it was not going to work with the younger kids needing so much attention. I was listening to a podcast or reading something that reminded me that the younger kids are just as much a part of our school as the older ones who are actually doing the work. It's not like I can expect them to sit still for long or explain to them why they need to be quiet, so instead of fighting with the situation in frustration, we made a switch that saved our school from extinction. We included the younger kids as much as we possibly could. I didn't really want to give up my quiet time during the afternoon nap but it was the only way we could make progress and make it all work. 

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A Look Back at Form II

I have neglected our poor homeschool blog for too long and recently found this post that I had compiled last year around this time, but never actually hit "Publish!" So, I am posting it now, especially because it is encouraging to me (a year later) as we have made some good progress on quite a few things that I was up in the air about or unsure of! I plan to do another similar post for this past year too and will definitely try to be more consistent in posting here!!!

**FYI: Form II is grades 4-6, usually ages 4-12 (sometimes over 12)

We finished our school year at the beginning of June, but I thought I should write a review here for my sake. We followed AO almost entirely but did make a few adjustments here or there...