We have officially completed a year of Time4Learning! While it hasn’t been 12 months since we first signed up, my son has started and completed the 2nd grade with T4L. Yay!! He was so excited this morning when I told him that I had gotten the email confirming that he could officially start the 3rd grade. You’d think you just told him that he was going to Disneyland. Ok…maybe not Disneyland, but you get my point. :o)

I was SO proud of him today. He does NOT like math at all, but decided to just jump right into math today and that was the first subject he started! Having taken a little time off, he struggled initially but ended up doing well. The difference between 2nd and 3rd grades was very noticeable. The lessons were not (at least not today at any rate) quite as animated as we were used to, but he still seemed pleased. I know I was! We are keeping my 2 nieces for two weeks and they are also homeschooled. They use a different curriculum than we do and were very intrigued and watched my son quite a bit today. It will be interesting to see what the next couple of weeks hold for all of them! :o)

I can’t believe it’s been five years since my youngest daughter was born. Natalie, now five years old, started Kindergarten this week, but it was towards the end of this years school year that it hit me. She was moving from Pre-School 3 days a week, 3 hours per day to Kindergarten, 5 days a week, all day long. My first concern was making sure that Natalie was ready for school, no only socially and emotionally but also that she was ready intellectually. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t about to make my child spend the entire summer doing school work just so she could be “ready.” But I also did not want her to fall behind, so I did some research for books, online programs and other homeschooling programs.

I came across Time4learning in June and immediately enrolled her. I could not believe how much fun she was having learning. Throughout the summer we worked on several lessons per day, her choice not mine. We still went on vacations to visit family and Natalie generally asked to go on Time4learning as her down time, usually when everyone else was just sitting around chatting. It was so cool to be able to log on no matter where we were.
Since we started I have seen her improve in word recognition, rhyming and her biggest struggle, recognizing coins. I’m glad she had so much fun learning the fundamentals of Kindergarten over the summer. Now that she is in school we use the program as a great resource and support for what she learns in school, besides, she loves the fun activities used in each lesson as well as the playground activities, so as far as that goes, it’s a win-win situation.

I will continue to share her progress as we move through this school year.

Terie

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