Our Homeschool Journey Begins!

We are officially a homeschooling family!  It took a few phone calls and resending an email of my Letter of Intent to the Home Education office at the BOE, but we did it. 

K will be using FLVS (Florida Virtual School) for his 9th grade core subjects and I'm hoping to supplement other courses using traditional homeschooling.  Keep your fingers crossed that I can figure this out.

C is a first grader.  I decided to fore-go a boxed curriculum and just put my own budget conscious curriculum together: 

- Math:  Math Mammoth Light Blue Grade 1

- History:  The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Volume 1: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads

- Reading/Science:  Easy Peasy All-In-One Homeschool

I'm still tinkering around with everything.  One thing I noticed is that C's handwriting is awful especially considering that he's had two years of public schooling!  There is no consistency in the way he writes his letters and numbers which normally wouldn't be such a bad thing but it really slows him down and frustrates him.  He also has a very awkward way of holding his pencils.  I'm considering ordering Handwriting Without Tears and spend this year trying to help him improve his penmanship. For now we're just doing daily writing with focus on proper pencil holding techniques. 

Meanwhile I am doing some kinder work with P.  If we were still in Ohio, she would have been eligible for kindergarten since the cutoff was September 30.  Here in Florida she would be in VPK. 

I've also been researching some ideas to incorporate music and art into our curriculum.  Right now I'm still trying to find balance though.

K helping P while I worked with C.