Bragging corner

I truly try not to brag about anything at all, especially in a blog forum, but I am going to do it and hope that you will understand my elation. Report cards came home this week. Austin got 4 B's and 2 A's, the A's were in Math and Latin. I am thrilled for him, because his school work is truly challenging for him, except for math, he seems to be a whiz at it. There were several times this quarter where he came home with some pretty low F's and I was worried if he could pull them up in time.

Luke got 2 A's a B and the rest S for satisfactory. The teacher has told me numerous times, what a hard worker he is, and how driven he is. I am very proud of him, he is still behind in reading, but is meeting the goals they have for him. A tutor comes in a couple of times a week and reads with him, and in the mornings he does a computer program geared to help him catch up.

But Evan was the one that shined the brightest. He got 5 A's and 1 B, which placed him on the honor roll. Since he has never been to school, he had no idea that it is a big deal, until I read him the teachers comments and he saw it on the report card. I am positively glowing over him, and relieved like you can't imagine. My whole homeschooling life, I worried about whether or not they were getting what they needed and if I was preparing them adequately for it. It is a huge relief to me to see them do so well. Granted they are all 1 year behind the actual grade that they could/should be in, but this still proves to me that they are on track, they just might not have done this well.

As a fellow blogger once put it, (and I liked it). I was a reluctant homeschooler. I am not one to think that children learn what they need to know by playing in the creek or planting a garden, (although worthy pastimes) but they need structure and some rigorous school work. So I did what I had to do, but not very well, or with much enthusiasm. School was just something to get through each day. I am sure that I will probably homeschool again in the near future but this has given me the confidence I needed to do it better, the next time I give it a go.