Next Year

So, the Mom that I have been talking to about doing KONOS with next year has decided to do it! It is very exciting to think that I will have another Mom to work with next year! We are going to go to the Blaine Homeschool Co-Op on Thursday to check out the program. It's a program that offers elective classes like Spanish and classes on Fossils and such :) They also offer some sort of "Allowance" for each kid that is enrolled in their program for parents to use for curriculum, dance classes or whatever as long as it's not religious based. So I will find out about that then. Today was a struggle for Math.... we pretty much spent all day on it, well, Cayleb did anyway. I understand that he was overwhelmed with the new concepts, we just started "Long Division" with 2 digit quotients and remainders. It's a lot of new steps to remember, but he is such a smart guy, if he would just focus on it a few times, he'd get it and then fly through the assessment. But he had me work through about 10 problems with him and then he wanted to take the assessment, so I let him and he then expected me to help him work through that as well.... We'll needless to say, I'm not supposed to help him with that, so he spent the rest of the day (about 4 hours) pouting, whining , and wasting time. He finally finished it, and when I went back and checked it he had made at least one mistake in each problem, so, he had to correct them all. But since he didn't complete it and pass unassisted, I get to look forward to trying it again tomorrow. Oh Joy! So, hopefully I will come up with something or someway different to approach it for tomorrow that will help it to stick to his brain. It's days like these that exhaust me and make me want to say forget it, you can just go sit in a frickin' classroom. I really have things that I could be doing you know.