It Almost Time For School Again!

Can you believe it!

Poor Logan is starting to freak out. He did SO well last year at public school. It was his first time. He finished 5th grade. He got the help he needed from the special ed department. He made a few friends. It all worked out. But now He will be going to the Middle School and his "routine" will be drastically different! So the panic is setting in. And the attitude. Poor guy! We keep telling him his friends will be the same and so will his helpers. Just different teachers and a different building. Deven will across the parking lot. Deven was in the Middle School last year. Just ask him, he knows where everything is. :) The people are super nice there. BUT these words aren't helping him LOL. Orientation/schedule pickups are this Thursday.

Deven! on the other hand has been ready to go back for over a month now, Hah! Mr. Socialite.... He will be at the High School this year. He is excited High School yea! Freshman boo! (bottom of heap.) LOL His words in jest. 8th graders were the "big guys on campus" now the 9th grader are the "little guys" he was speculating. Truely he will never be a "little guy". He is already 6ft 4 and 253 lbs at 14yrs old.

Then there is Derek....
He wanted to be an Air Force Pilot. Of high altitude planes. He recently found out that will not be possible. He has asthma. and they won't let him be a navigator for one either :( Now he is looking into Helicoptors ! Looks like he is Homeschooling his last year of school this year too.
Derek has added a few classes to his list. We'll try to get them added in.

Driver's Ed-- Doing now
Government & Politics -- on the way
Intro to Physics -- on the way
Math -- have
Language Arts-- Working on it
Modern History -- Working on it
Spanish -- have
Drafting (1 Semester) -- need to get
C Programming (1 Semester) -- need to get
British Literature -- working on it
Scuba -- PE credit ? Maybe if the college has it. Would be perfect!
Home Economics aka Life Skills -- Have it
Art/Business -- Have it

Week in review Wednesday

I'm a day late. ;)
Deven and Logan had testing yesterday and that took up 1/2 the day. They go back to finish tomorrow. Derek wants to go to the High School here. It looks smaller than Jenna's. I think his class would have a total of 65. I graduated with 334! So now I am having to wrack my brain on what he has been learning for the last 3 years. I do not remember a lot. My medicine really did do a number on me memory wise. The kids don't like to discuss it, but when I can get it out of them I was "pretty dang slow". No wonder I thought I was going bonkers when I was coming off it to switch over to Topomax.....But I digress. Derek has to go to the High School and take the 1st 1/2 of the TAKS test tomorrow morning. I'm not worried about him taking tests. It's him writing an essay that bothers me. He just cannot sort his thoughts quick enough. I hope he doesn't freeze on that part. Phillip says he doesn't mind if Derek gets put in the 10th grade instead of the 11th. I think he will be bored to DEATH. But maybe not. High School is different than Middle and Elementary. We'll just wait and see what the tests say.

We got approval to get an appointment for a pediatric psychologist for Logan to get a firm diagnosis on Aspergers and/or any other LD's there may be. Now to find one. The yellow pages aren't being much help. Dr. ofc isn't aloud to make this referral for us, "its a private matter", they said.

I've dyed yarn. 414 grams worth. I was going for camo. It came out green and pink. The dyes split somehow. So instead I have "Briar Rose" soon to be in my store. While Zander was here we dyed 463 grams of Corriedale roving with koolaid. First time ever to dye roving. Koolaid was safest with an 18mo around. AND was first time to steam dye. That was fun. My spinning is getting more consistent and stays around worsted weight.

Of course Phillip is on call. Good news is they have a new guy now so in a couple months he gets to share ;)

School again. HUGE flip flop

Part of the reason it's taking so dang long to decide on what to pick or do is, Deven has been waffling back and forth all summer about going to school this year. We keep telling him "Fine go." Then he changes his mind again. So yesterday afternoon we all went to town to "see the school". This town is 1100 people large according to Google. All 3 schools are together. Middle School is a new one. Band camp was going on there, and the Asst Principle gave us a tour. A gaggle of giggling girls followed us around and finally started to talk to Derek and Deven. It was really funny. The girls ranged from 13-15. One ran off to tell a friend about the boys and came rushing back all embarrassed. When I looked over there were 3 more girls looking through the glass window. haha. My boys are clueless! They think they might want to go to school this year haha. And Deven says he may try out for football. From what I understand they don't care if he can play or not. He's 6ft 2in. in the 8th grade! The other kids are not ;) I hope it goes well for Derek. His experience last time was scary aweful at KISD. I don't foresee any "gang activities" in a small town. But we'll talk to the High School Principal anyway about those sort of things when he is there. Logan is wants to try too. They are going to place him in the special ed program. (have to get paperwork from old school). With the school being small, it's integrated up to a point. After that he would be bussed to Academy. He'll still have to be after-schooled. He does well with schedules because of his Asperger's. It's the being away from home all day I'm not too sure about. It took 3 months to integrate last time he was in public school. I really hope it is quicker this time. I want this to be trauma free.... For everyone. I count this as being the first time for me being home alone ever since kids. Last time doesn't count. I don't remember it. My old medicine did that. I don't remember alot. It dawned on Phillip last night before bed that I would be alone. He still worries about seizures. It's been over 3 years now, almost 4. And Logan may only be gone 1/2 days. Depends on the testing and how the special ed program works. I am hoping for full integration program, but it may not happen. There are several delays. Age wise he is 6th grade. But when is he was in KISD he was 1 yr behind. They wanted to hold him another yr behind but he is a big boy and he had an IEP. So they said they would pass him and give him another IEP. It's a toss up right now if he will be 5th or 6th grade. They will use the test and his size to determine. School starts the 25th. Which coincidentally was when I was going to start anyway. But now I feel rushed. They all have shoes. Some of the correct school supplies. Now I need to make sure they enough nice clothes to wear.

Rogers is alot like Douglass only smaller. The grainery is next to the train tracks. I even saw a little mexican restaurant on the corner when we drove into town :) We'll have to drive around there some more, but I doubt they have a Pizza Hut ;)

Are you ready for school?

We almost are.
I won my ebay auction for Logan's history/geography. He'll be learning Winter Promise's American Story part1. The rest is easy we continue where we left off at the end of last year. :D

Deven and I haven't decided on yet on if he is going to do the Ancients or an in depth 1yr American history. After we figure that out, then I can search out the big deals. ;) He needs to take a placement math test. He's hoping to place the same or higher than Derek LOL. It's a European math program. So things are more integrated. Algebra, Geometry, etc are used every year, all year long instead of split into separate years. Deven is also waffling between Earth/Space Science and Life Science. The rest we continue where we left off.

Derek is going to be in the 11th grade this year! Can you believe it?! He will be in Driver's Ed. Civic's, Spanish, American Literature, Most of Year 11 History/Literature/Biographies from Old Fashioned Education, his Language Arts will continue from last year. I'm thinking Psychology might be a good elective if I can find a good book for him. And perhaps Economics. He wants Computer Science or Physics for his 3rd Science credit. I just need to find the books! Many are on line just waiting for me to hit print or buy for $2......I just know it ;-)
Wait! when is the big library sale? that's where I found most of last years books.....

If the boys go on a reading frenzy I'll look at the suggested reading at Ambleside Online or hit the used book store and let them find their own books :)