Last days of summer

Been busy getting all of our curriculum planned for the new school year. It is extra challenging as we are now working with a team of behavior and speech therapists for R while still trying to work in some fun. I am cautiously optomistic after the months of research that I have picked things that will be a reasonably good fit for the kids and their learning styles. E will be starting Latin this year. I picked So You Really Want to Learn Latin by Galore park Press. It looks kinda fun. As fun as learning a dead but useful language can be, right? I just finished reading Life of Fred decimals and fractions and actually found myself picking up paper and pencil to do the problems myself. Hope she likes it half as well as I did. We are doing Story of the World vol2 this year. I already have prints of medeival and renaissance paintings interspersed throughout the house and a netflix cue of about 30 programs on that time period. I hope we get to at least a few of them. We are especially excited for science as we are doing earth science and E especially loves geology and oceanography. I am hoping to conquer Beowulf this first couple of weeks which means that I have to read it again (ugh!). E is still on swim team and playing guitar. R is doing well with her therapy. She is no longer dreading Sundays and the crowds at church. I know that math will be easy, as it is a subject that she really likes. I am sorta dreading language arts as she loathes writing and it is a struggle to get her through it. She likes history and science (which we do with E). She will spend hours doing art and playing in her sensory boxes so I am going to try to do art with some writing. Maybe that will work. Worth a try, eh? Baby B wants to be in everyone's business so I have lots of pre-preschool stuff to try and keep him occupied. He is into drawing circles and building with blocks and legos so I keep those supplies handy. BIg daddy B said something about taking the girls to pick blackberries tomorrow. I think he wants more pie like the one I made with company last week. Maybe they can do some beachcombing while they are at it and find some "beach trash" (bits of flotsam and jetsom) to bring back and makes some art with.