SCHOOL HAS STARTED!

As many of you know we have transferred the kids to a new school program. School offiicially started for us last week. The last several days have been VERY full and VERY overwhelming. There have been many hours spent making/receiving many phone calls, many tears over assignments and not being able to stay on top of everything, and yet today, many "yipee's!" over assignments completed or subjects figured out. We have been so amazed at the kindness, patience and diligence of the kids' instructors. We have been given such wonderful support and instruction through emails and phone calls. It is wonderful for me to know that we can call or email just about anytime we need to and the kids will instantly have the assistance that I may not be able to give them. It is extra fun for us to know they will have the help they need from instructors that are spread out throuhout the state and even further - the kids' teachers are in places like salem, scio, sutherland, happy valley (all OR cities), and Baltimore, Maryland!

The opportunities for the kids are also going to be amazing. We found out that because of the high level classes ceana took at TMS that she has already met her high school graduation requirements for math!!! Yippe for her, that leaves all of her next 4 years open for her to take advanced classes and even earn college credit during that time.
We have discovered that Colton is needing to repeat Kindergarten and that many skills and needs were not met last year as we had hoped. We have the chance for me to work with him one-on-one and make sure those skills are achieved and he is learning at his pace to get subjects and themed lessons completed.
We are still working on trying to find balance between the boys' schedules though. They are both still needing 1-1 help and that is difficult for me, as I need to be everywhere for everyone and still take care of Ky & Kels and house (which is not happening at all) We will eventually get it figured out, eventually.

The kids are finding their favorite subjects already. Caiden has started his language arts class with reading "Because of Winn Dixie" and doing assignments from the book. His comprehension levels are really great and he seems to enjoy all the activities he can do on the computer for his assignments. Kaeli is really enjoying Social Studies and learning about different cultures and countries. Ceana is REALLy loving her Latin class and we are having fun starting to learn what we already know in Latin (more than you would think!) and new vocabulary (starting with animals) Colton is just loving everything and I think he is just happy to be back at "school"

These picts are of the boys on the phone with their classroom teachers. Each homeroom teacher made a welcome call to every student. The boys really had fun talking with their teachers and learning about all the fun they will have this year. Each teacher will also make check in phone calls every other week and the kids' will have what are called "live lessons" where they will get onto a live classroom online every week with their teachers and other students in their class.

Caiden is talking with his teacher and going over his student questionaire. His favorite subjects are math, reading, and science.

Kaeli took this pict of me - yes, I really was on 2 phones at the same time - learning school stuff for me has been VERY challenging

Colton is really chomping at the bit every day to do school stuff. He had a ton of fun talking with his teacher on the phone and he cant quite understand why she is not on the phone or on the computer all the time for him to talk to her every day....it is so cute