School's out for Summer!

Cottage School was finished Wednesday.  Our testing is complete as of this morning.  All I have to do is mail off the answer sheets and have the kids organize their portfolios and put them away in their closets.

I am so glad this school year is over.  it has been a very busy year.  In fact, even though school is over, we still have work that will force us into a summer session of sorts. 

Michael was sick for several weeks which caused him to fall behind in all his classes.  We focused on his writing and lit classes at the expense of Latin and Math.  He will have to make these up between camping trips this summer.

Genna only has about 10 Math lessons to go.  She will finish this up in a matter of days.  We also are pulling Girl Scouts into June in order to finish up the Bronze Award.  I have about six girls who are hanging on to get this done.  then Genna and I will spend some time reading and writing this summer to get her ready for her Lit class next year.  She will be in the same class as Michael but Michael has two years experience to help him with the reading and writing.

Nikita has officially graduated from Preschool.  He has a diploma and medal to prove it.  With all the struggles we went through last year, his diploma is a major symbol of success for me.  He has come such a long way in the past year.  He knows his letters quite well, is starting to ask me to spell things so he can write them, and writes quite neatly too.  I have no doubt he will fit right in to his K class next year.  And we still have all summer to keep growing!

Genna had her gymnastics show this week.  She did two roundoff-back handsprings in the show!  For those of you, like me who don't know if this is good or bad, this means she has graduated to the advanced gymnastics class.  She and Nikita will be taking classes this summer.  Nikita has decided he likes this better than soccer. 

My plans for the summer include a homeschool conference or two, some painting in the living room and Nikita's room, a visit to Michigan and another to NC and major collapse in between all this. 

 I'm hoping to be able to keep you up on the little things that go on this summer.  As it is, I feel guilty because I haven't told you anyhting about our trip to Durham or our trips to Staten Island, Dc and Virginia Beach.  They were all amazing but I haven't had time to recap.  Maybe I'll enter some post dated posts to keep the blog complete.