Back to School 2023

The end of August marked the beginning of our school year. While it's always sad to leave behind carefree summer days, we were all ready to get back to a more structured day. 

Conrad - Kindergarten! 

Conrad is officially old enough for Kindergarten this year. He's most excited about math and his classes at IMA. In the one month of school so far, he's already made a ton of progress with his phonics and is ready to start learning to read. 

Orson - Second Grade

Orson is in a very observant stage of life. He has great, scientific questions like how to rockets work and what happens to water when it soaks in to the ground. He moved up to the Love of Learning age classes at IMA and is loving it! He's also discovered a series of short chapter books called Dragon Masters and is enjoying listening to audiobooks of them. I bet by the end of the year, he'll be reading them on his own. Also, doesn't he look so grown up and cool in his pictures?!?

Lenora - Fourth Grade

Lenora gets her very own book club this year and she's so excited! We split our book club in to a group for younger girls and a group for middle and high school aged girls. I think she's loving having something that is just hers. Lenora (and all the girls) are trying a new online math this year and loving it so far. She's set a goal to work hard on her writing this year (deciding what to write has always been a struggle for her). So far she's doing great and has written some fun paragraphs, a poem, and a summary of a book. Way to go Lenora! 

Eliza - Seventh Grade

Eliza felt ready to commit to a harder workload this year and begged me to be in Shakespeare (the first scholar class) at IMA. She was very set on the idea, and so far she's doing great! She drove right in reading, watching, and listening to 17 plays the first week in order to be crowned a Queen. I think she'll thrive this year! 

She's also SO excited about a folk music group we found because she's been wanting to learn to play the fiddle. Eliza has such great musical talent but prefers to learn by ear and improvise. This group will be perfect for her! 

We had to take the annual - back to school with a chicken picture

Hazel - Freshman Year! 

Hazel is now in High School. She's taking early morning seminary at Payson High School four days a week. She's also doing math online, two classes at IMA, The Good and the Beautiful High School LA, and a Biology class that I'm teaching her and two friends. I love Biology, so it's been fun for me to prepare and teach her. She's working so hard and staying on top of all of her homework (even if it's meant doing school work outside school hours which is a new experience for her). 

Walter - Too Cool for School

One afternoon the kids noticed Walter fit perfectly in this mango box. This turned in to a several day project of making cars from boxes. Walter is sporting a purple Tesla. Lenora went with a BMW, Orson a Ford truck, Conrad a sports car. They had a ton of fun with this!

Here's to a great school year!