N's new curriculum!

N was just accepted into Arkansas Virtual Academy.  It is a k12 program that is available for all or most states.  It is considered a public school, therefore all supplies are free! All I can see is that you have to enter in attendance, take state tests, and report to the school online.  Otherwise, he is always home with me, and I am still teaching him, so even though it is called a public school, he is still a homeschooler to me.  Our state only has enrollment for 500 students, and we have been on a waiting lists since the early summer.   They do a lottery for the waiting list, and N's name was pulled.  They said now the girls names will be bumped up to the top of the list, so hopefully, they can get in soon too.  We have a teacher that we check in with online every 2-3 weeks.  All the lessons are given to me with a daily/weekly schedule.  All materials are provided, and if you meet qualifications, you get a computer sent to you to use (which we are getting).   It is a lot at first.  I have to say this is good timing, and not good timing.  Good timing curriculum wise since we just transitioned back to homeschool.  Not the best timing b/c we are transitioning back, and this new school is very time consuming for me as I figure it out.  I am very optmistic though.  These is just what I need...to tell me exactly what to teach everyday.  We are both really excited about it. 

All his books came into day, and we were SO excited!!  It was truly like Christmas!  More curriculum than I have ever purchased for all 3 of my kids, plus a science kit, art supplies....and I didn't have to pay for it!  haha  How fun!!

 N testing out his tambourine for music class

 I am such a nerd!  I found this box on sale at wally world and got so excited to get it for all my new teaching supplies :)

 Had to throw in a pic of my cute tooth brusher!

 This is only about half of the books I got today, and our History stuff was shipped seperately, so it is still on the way

Everyone was super excited about the science kit!  

We loved music class tonight.  It had a cd, and the first lesson was on rhythm and beat, and the babies loved it too!  It was a perfect activity for Z, and C was getting so tickled turning circles to the music.

 Some of the work is online, some in books.  A lot of the material that is in the books is online also to be printed, so for Science, I got 2 copies for the girls.  I have to be able to teach things together, or I would never get finished teaching 3 in a day.  I am glad that I can still use this with the others as well.

 Oh, and as I was coming back to load my pics, I noticed this room that they were suppose to clean today.  I was too distracted by schoolwork all day to see that they never followed through with what they were suppose to do.   Oh well, there is always tomorrow, and the next day, and the next.  haha