Back to school!

Despite the vacation week we plan in south Florida in a few days, we (I) decided to start school today. It was time to get back to some routines and get things done :-) This year we have made some changes to our normal set up that consists of two different coops. All kids are part of one of the the coops but Marlee will not do Classical Conversations this year. He needed a change and together with Marlee we ended up picking the Robinson Curriculum for him instead of CC. We will do our own version of it but it will make him very independent and responsible for his own work. Of course I will be available when he needs me and i will check some of his work but he will work in a very different way than before. 

Gabriel answering questions about the text he just read about the horse Bess. 

Rafael finishing up the last pages of a book he started last year. 

Noah taking a break from his math.

Marlee doing math. He is doing Saxon math this year instead of the Strayer-Upton. He had the option to change so he did. Noah stayed with Strayer-Upton. Gabriel will do a combination of Horizon and A Beka. 

Gabriel started this school year by finishing our basic reading curriculum. When they do that we give them their first own proper bible so it was Gabriel's turn today. I was so happy to see how excited he was to read it :-) 

Doing two math puzzles for the CC memory work.

We had a good last week of the summer break. One birthday party and some sleep overs with friends. It is a little sad that the summer is already over but i must say that we have had a wonderful summer even though we couldn't go to Sweden as planned and despite my appendicitis that prevented us from doing some thing. We still have some vacation left in the Keys and we are leaving in s few days!!!

At the birthday party, which was at one of the gymnastic facilities here in Ormond.