We are not teachers and knowing how figure out the school aspect of this year was a major challenge. We are blessed that Alaska does a great job supporting homeschooling and after talking to friends we enrolled the kids in Mat-Su Central (a school designed to support home schooling) and were linked with an amazing councilor. We met a few times talking though our goals of the year, looking at where the kids were at and where we hoped they would be at the end of the year. We decided that we would do an online Math program - Think Well and an online writing program - Write at Home that would support the girls though the year. The other parts: culture, language, science, reading, physical education we would help organize and coordinate.
I could go on forever about how much more rewarding and fun this has been than I expected, but instead, here are some picture from the past week of what homeschooling has looked like for us. The video is Lily taking her final test for European geography before moving on to Asia.
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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This was a beautiful and highly interactive exhibit on Richard Feynman and his incredible work in Singapore.
The art in Penang is everywhere and adds to the already overwhelming beautiful visual stimulation.
We spent hours at this beautiful interactive exhibit at the Science and Art Museum. The girls created their own cities and played and danced with a highly engaging displays. If we were not so busy at the museums, I might have actually written more about them.
Art is meant to be played with, lived with and interacted with.
Much of what we hope to learn on this year is just seeing an other ways that people live and learn and help them find their own personal inner callings. Like the old and the new in this picture we have tried to blend traditional and non-traditional learning to give them wings to fly.
More fun at the Art and Science Museum. Particle physics, building atoms and computer boards.
We took so many pictures in this “meditation” room in the Art and Science museum. It was beautiful interaction between light and texture.
i love the way light and angles can change everything.
more fun
The street art in Penang has also been a fun addition to art part of our year.
And you get to interact with the art.
This teacher is grateful to have had this year to really dive into the girls education and to have so many helping hands that made this year possible!