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My goodness where have the years gone!! Jessica will pretty much continue from where she left off last year. One of the things that I have felt important in being discipleship based (as opposed to education based) is that learning doesn’t stop and start with the calendar year. We continue on with the same workbooks, the binders, even the pencil case from one year to the next. We make changes when the child needs changes to be made, rather than when the calendar says so.
Jessica’s days will be filled with:
Discipleship studies: The same as Josh – Character and Bible Study – though they rarely study together. They do occasionally discuss something which is a great benefit to them as they both look at things so differently.
Lifeskills: Also with Josh, I will actually teach these subjects – very hands on in our own office. Quickbooks, Office systems, Personal Money Management
For Keepers at Home Jess will learn cake decorating and dress making in the first part of the year.
Basic skills – Math, Piano,
General Knowledge – Science/Noeo, History, Geography, Australian History, Photoshop
Jessica is also very involved in a community outreach programme, Mainly Music which takes her Thursday mornings as well as the occasional committee meeting.
The links are to the specific curriculum/resource we use though there are many, many books and online links that we use to cover Jessica’s learning.
This sounds like lots of fun – something I have always wanted to do but never made it a priority. Scott's mum used to do wedding cakes and the like. Is that the sort of cake decorating you are going to be doing? Who is going to teach this one?
Yes, Pete's Mum also decorates cakes. She did our wedding cake.
Another Homeschool Mum, MC, is teaching the girls. They are doing very well – last week they started to use the icing bag. We have a container of little flowers, and leaves and blobs sitting on my table waiting for a cake to decorate!