After getting up at 0630 and leaving camp every Saturday morning to drive into the city for 3on3 hockey, CKW decided that riding competitively was more important to him than playing rep (competitive) hockey, so a few weeks ago a new member of our family arrived: Top Notch Tuppence, a large, Welsh cross pony who has shown hunters, jumpers and evented - just what CKW needs!
They hit it off immediately and CKW has been riding almost every day since his arrival!
We've been 'doing school' four days per week, approximately 3.5 hours each day and then heading out to the barn for the afternoon. CKW attends an after school group for a couple of hours every afternoon and then continues on to sports and/or piano in the evenings. During the day on Wednesdays, we get together with our local homeschool group and socialise. Great for him to have kids to run around with and really great for me to have other homeschooling parents to talk to. Seriously, I need the socialisation waaaaay more than he does!
Moving Beyond the Page (MBtP) continues to be our main curriculum spine for language arts and social science. I continue to be impressed by this curriculum! Maths is covered with Teaching Textbooks, Singapore Math, Life of Fred, and various iPad apps - CKW is a maths lover! We are also enjoying My Pals Are Here! for science and supplement with the Homeschool Science Program at our local city science centre. Our Canadian social science content is from Donna Ward but I plan to purchase CBC's Canada: A People's History as CKW finds Donna Ward a bit dry, and I have to admit that I concur! We are slogging though Easy Grammar and Daily Grams but I'm not impressed with teaching grammar based entirely upon prepositions and plan to invest in Michael Clay Thompson's curriculum next year, as long as we have the time to fit it in along with MBtP. CKW enjoys all the 'Detective' workbooks from The Critical Thinking Company and on days that I am not feeling well, I am very thankful for workbooks and computer based curriculum!
Fall is my favourite season - hope you are enjoying it as much as we are!
