New Year

We actually started our school year early this year since we are planning to start building a new house this fall.

The children do most of their schoolwork together since they are close together in age. This year we are covering the following:
American Government
American Literature
Chemistry
Christian Doctrine
Algebra 2
Computers

I like having the children work together at this age so that they can discuss their work with one another. It's difficult to discuss a literary selections if Mom is the only one with whom you can discuss it.

When we started homeschooling the children did almost everything together. That caused a lot of competition and hard feelings between the two for a while. So, we separated them and had each of them working on completely different things. Now, that they are older there isn't that same competition and they enjoy talking about books (as well as other things) together. We wanted them to have the opportunity to do as much as possible together before they are grown up and on their own. We hope they are building memories and a closeness with one another that will last them the rest of their lives.