Working Out Of the Box

I have been learning many things as I have been on this home-school journey. One of the most important ones is to let go of my old school learning style! It has been a hard lesson to learn, one that had caused arguments, tears, and wanting to quit all together. Today was my "Aha!" Moment.  We are in math and today he did borrowing in subtraction. Now in my world I would have made this a huge issue because he did not make the tens column showing the lesser value BUT as I took the extra seconds to keep my mouth shut and noticed his answer, I saw that he got it right!  In his world he saw the subtraction problem differently which still gave him the correct answer. So rather ending in misunderstandings and frustrations on both sides it ended in high fives which made this momma feel pretty darn good!

The Otter

This was my son's very first presentation...EVER! It was for science and he had to research his favorite animal. He chose the Otter. I was so proud of him. He chose the pictures, which we had just  taken from a previous visit at the zoo! He has grown so much this year in participation of co-op. It has truly blessed me to see him in this element. He also is in an IEW (Intro essay writing) class. This class has helped him learn to explain his thoughts and communicate much more clearer so you understand him! I actually just allowed this class to be our language arts class since it was going over parts of speech, sentence/paragraph structure, and the obvious, essays. Really am glad to have made the decision to participate.

Flower Dissection!

Okay. .I well admit to you right now. .science is my absolute favorite subject. I am glad to have a son who lives it as much as I do! Yay me! This was our biology project: the dissection of a beautiful rose. We should have used a lily to really get to see the different parts better but this was good too! He had a lot of fun looking inside it and labeling.  To bad he forgot to take it out of his backpack for class! Lol Gotta love him :)

State Report

We have official, in Co-op time, 1 week left of school and this week in history is JD'S state report presentation.  I know he will do well and am proud of all we accomplished together! He has grown by leaps and bounds with this journey that was a huge step out of my box but I am so glad we did it.  He had verbally grown in being able to communicate his thoughts and feelings more clearly, which is amazing! He is now 11 and is growing like a weed. .lol
I can't express how proud I am of  him. We will then after this time of school tale t weeks off but then continue with math and learning cursive (since I feel that is very important). I figure with less subjects we can take our time and really work on writing plus do 1 science project a week, which he will really love!
In all this year has gone well even with a highly active 2 year old.