Coming back to Sonlight...Kinda

Well some time has passed since Addy's birth 1yr to be exact. I have been using Ace paces for Ailey and Ayden for a year now, they have been amazing for teaching a 6 and 7 year old how to read granted I am also using Sonlight's Reader's 1 that uses I Can Read series along with Explode the Code as well as Abeka's Reading program.....I know it sounds like a lot but it seems to work nicely and learning to read is just SO important!

Ayden started having Petit Mal seizure's, a typical day consists of between 5 and 15 through out the school day so this slows us down quite a bit and I don't know when we will be done . I had wanted to keep to the typical school year but I don't think we will be done until next December.....It's kinda of freaking me out!

Alora...Ugh I don't know what to say, I'm worried and full of shame...She is almost 11 and in 5th grade this year, and "using" Switch on School House...and yes I'm using that term lightly she's only done maybe about 3 weeks of work on it...she so far behind now. What do I do? I don't know If I can get her caught up and I don't know how to get her motivated to do her work! I'm very angry about it, not really feeling like talking about it right now though...

So....with some utter failures in teaching this year...I was so overwhelmed with Sonlight when I first started using it I wanted to check off every box, Language arts didn't seem up to par and didn't make sense to me then, I was worried they were not learnig everything they were suppossed to and I moved on to "better" box curriculums..HA! Well I think your getting the picture of how well my school year has gone with out using Sonlight, I think I gonna pull out my Core 5 and Core K and start again but this time I don't think I will be so manic and OCD about it, instead of trying to check off the boxes daily I'm gonna go for the if we finish that box "good".... if not we'll do it tommorrow thing.

We'll see how it goes......And yes I know this entry was all over the place, my apologies to the reader. But I do think it helped my brain to sort some stuff out.