End Of Year Gifts

Our in-home teachers are always commenting on the yummy smells from our kitchen that they get to enjoy (or maybe endure) during their sessions here.  They don't usually turn down a sample and sometimes will ask for a recipe.  So I thought it might be fun to make the 22/23 end of year gift all about cooking with spices from five different continents... because teachers make the world go round.

And of course, I created my annual driveway chalk art to close out the year for our little neighborhood friends whose last day also happens to be today overlapping with my homeschooling kids'.

High School In The Headlights

Tomorrow is Big Girl's last day of 8th grade which means in September she will be in high school.  Eek - didn't I just put a newly minted Kindergartener with a heavy Armenian accent on the school bus on a cold January morning?

Big Girl had an overall excellent school year and completed her classes at her home school co-op with straight As.  Her schedule included four high school level classes (Health, Basic Language Arts, American Sign Language, Independent Study Art) and between those courses and the ones she completed in 7th grade, she has now already earned six of the 21 credits required for high school graduation in our state.

In September, she will begin four additional high school courses at the co-op: Geoscience (an elective) and Algebra 1, Personal Finance/Stock Market, and Contemporary US and World History (graduation requirements).  Here at home, I will teach her a US Literature class, a prospect about which I am pretty giddy.  I have already started designing my curriculum and I think it will be challenging and fun.

We're proud of our Big Girl and looking forward to what the next four years hold.

Updated: Last breakfast of 8th grade

Picture of the Day

When you have kind neighbors who know of your love for vinyl, you may find a surprise on your front porch.  Little One was thrilled.

2023 Art Show

Big Girl took Art Independent Study as one of her high school classes this year and chose to exhibit two pieces in the school-wide art show.  We had a great time seeing her work and that of many other students.