First Day of Milligan Family Homeschool- 2014

We started our 6th year of homeschool on August 25, 2014. :)

 

So far, we are having a great year! Rachel is in 5th grade and rocking along just beautifully. She has such strong reading and comprehension skills. She works hard on everything and is a very independent worker. This year, I've been giving her a list of daily assignments and she writes them in her assignment notebook. She can do most things on her own and I only help her when she asks. We're really concentrating on her writing skills and making sure she knows how to write a solid, descriptive, paragraph so that she can write a strong essay by the end of the school year.

 

Bradley is in the 3rd grade and is doing really well! He began reading like a pro last year, so he's had more fun being able to work independently on some assignments for the first time. Bradley's strength is definitely mathematical concepts, so we're about to start multiplication tables, and I know he's going to knock them out! We're really concentrating on writing our thoughts down without worrying about spelling and punctuation. Brad tends to be a perfectionist, which prevents him from attempting things because he's fearful of doing something wrong or having something misspelled. Our goal is to write complete sentences with correct spelling and punctuation by the end of the year.

 

Trent is in Kindergarten and is a really eager student! Like most things that Trent does, he works REALLY hard and loves to succeed (and does!). He is a very fast learner and remembers things very easily. He has excellent penmanship! He struggles with speech articulation, so our main focus this year is practicing sounds and letter combinations. He loves doing this and loves to be praised for his efforts. :)

 

All 3 kids are still studying North America and "traveling" up the east coast. Recently we learned about North and South Carolina. We are also about to delve into the Middle Ages in History and we've just started learning about Astronomy in Science.

 

We have lots of fun in our homeschool classroom and are so thankful that we get to do this every day. :)