A Look Back on Our Year with Ambleside Online

I feel like this year was a big year for me, with having three official students (one of those being in high school) and pre-schooling twins. I'm not sure how the year managed to fly by, but it did and we have closed up the books. There have been so many good books floating on and off the shelves and it makes me sad to think that some of these won't be opened again for a long time. Thankfully, I have some young kids to cycle through all these old friends and I look forward to reading with them in the future. 

What We've Been Up To

It's super easy to get discouraged by other's progress and that isn't what this post is supposed to do... but instead, to encourage all you moms who are just quietly working each day with one or two or more children. All that consistent work each day really adds up. We're feeling cooped up, like everyone else in the world, but we are working on being kind, doing our best work, and habit training. I thought I'd share a peek in pictures of the past few weeks.

We just finished the MEP Reception year!

A Look Back at Term 1

We finished Term 1 yesterday! I feel like we need to have balloons and confetti! :) It was a long term, for a variety of reasons but looking back, I can see that we accomplished SO much! 

Planning 7th grade with Ambleside Online

And now it's time for the 7th grade plans! This was probably the easiest year to plan out of the three girls, because it is a lot of repetition from when Kailyn worked through AO Year 7. Louisa is a bit different, of course, as all our children are and I did adjust a few things because of that. 

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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