This week

Maggie has had a great week of working on her homeschool materials. She took her first speling test and only missed two. We have been studying longitude and latitude and the hemispheres, which is mainly review. She score 100% on jer quizzes. In language arts she has been reading Little House in the Big Woods. For Bible she is studying her Little Catacism and learning about the steps toward being confirmed. She attends confirmation classes on Sundays. She and her dad have been studying human anatomy and memorizing the major bones of the body for science.

I have decided to purchase the full curriculum of switched on schoolhouse. It's relatively inexpensive and will help me with her grades and keeping her organized. I ordered some of the past years's programs and discovered that they won't run on any of our computers properly. It's disappointing b/c they were very inexpensive. I am angry at myself for not realizing they were old programs and wouldn't run on vista or windows 2000. However, it did show me that the program suited her. So, we are getting a late start, but it will ultimately be ok. Peter is installing a bigger hard drive into her computer so she'll have more room for these programs.

We are enjoying homeschooling so far. Next week she will start horseback riding classes on Wednesday and then homeschool PE on Thursdays while I am at work.

Tomorrow we leave for a ctr and she's bringing her books with her so we can do somework in the car.