Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Family update:

Louie is doing well. He continues with his role as Captain for the Miami Dade Rescue Training Bureau. Most of you already know he was dispatched to assist in Haiti with the Earthquake that occurred in January of this year. He has since traveled to Washington D.C. and Tallahassee, Florida (to name a few) to be honored for a job well done in Haiti. He and his crew were able to rescue 11 live people from the rubble. Louie was touched by the devastation he witnessed in Haiti in ways I can not even begin to describe. On his return from Haiti, he wanted nothing more then to spend time with his family. So, he booked us on a one week Caribbean cruise. We had a wonderful and restful time!



Gianna has recently recovered from a fracture to her right foot that she received on the very last night of our cruise. She was unable to dance for a month and has recently returned to her Ballet classes. Although she has decided that Girl Scouts is just not for her, she did complete and receive her Silver Award. This award is the highest award one can receive as a Cadette Girl Scout. Her project consisted of holding a 3 day Summer Camp for 2nd grade students in hopes of sharing with them her love of the ocean and sea animals. She did an amazing job! The children loved what she had shared with them. Gianna has successfully completed the 8th grade. She is continuing to school in the summer and God willing, will complete  9th grade by the Fall.

She has completed the following novels this school year:

  • Heidi

  • Shark Life

  • I Kissed Dating Goodbye

  • Love Off-Limits

  • Johnny Tremain

  • Taming of The Shrew (her favorite so far)

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


Books and essays on her list to complete by the Fall are as follows:

  • The Scarlet Letter (currently reading)

  • The Red Badge of Courage

  • The Pit and the Pendulum

  • A Model of Charity

  • Through Gates of Splendor

  • Born Again

  • Ash Liv

  • Up From Slavery

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

  • The Glass Menagerie

  • The Song of Hiawatha

  • The Midnight Run of Paul Revere

  • To Kill a Mockingbird

  • Thoreau's Walden

  • Emerson's Self Reliance

  • The Old Man and The Sea


These novels and essays are all part of her Challenge I curriculum for Classical Conversations. Her goal is to finish Challenge I and be ready for Challenge II in the fall. She is also completing the following areas of study:

American Government: all areas of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, the Presidents, etc...

Economics: Whatever Happened to Penny Candy and The Money Mystery (Free Market Economics)

Latin: Latina Christiana I

Mathematics: Saxon 7/8

Philosophy: Sophie's World

Science: Apologia's Physical Science

Against her wishes and to please her father, Gianna will continue to play the flute in the Fall. :) She will be attending her first Prom geared for homeschoolers with her buddy Matthew and friends.  I promise to post pictures! She will also be attending her favorite SeaWorld Camp in July, where she plans on rooming with a friend she met last year from South Carolina. She will also be attending our Church's Summer Camp in Daytona Beach with her friend Hannah. As you can tell, she is extremely busy and she somehow still manages to keep in touch with all her old and new friends on facebook!

Leanne is amazing! Although her schedule is no where near as busy as her sisters, she is as happy as can be. Her goal in life is to make everyone laugh! She is an amazingly talented young lady. She loves to draw Anime/Manga characters and would like to someday have a manga comic book published. She attended her first Anime Convention this Spring and was the happiest I have ever seen her. She owns more Anime/Manga books then anyone I know. She has taken to teaching herself Japanese. She loves to listen to and sing Japanese songs. How she does it, I haven't a clue! :) She has read way too many of these types of books for me to begin to list them, so instead I will show you a picture of her collection:



Leanne continues to be a part of Girl Scouts and is in the process of earning her Bronze Award, the highest award one can earn as a Junior Girl Scout. She will bridge to Cadette in the Fall. She has been steadily memorizing her lines for her upcoming role as Dorothy of The Wizard of OZ. I promise to post pictures some time in September after the play.

As for her studies, Leanne has successfully completed the 5th grade with many of her studies being of 6th grade level. Among the many Anime/Manga books she has read, she has completed the following novels this school year:

  • Where The Red Fern Grows

  • A Wrinkle In Time

  • My Side of The Mountain

  • The Golden Goblet

  • Warriors


Other areas of studies:

Geography: United States - Draw and label all states their capitals, rivers, mountains and surrounding bodies of water. Memorize all states, capitals and state abbreviations

Grammar: Junior Analytical Grammar

Latin: Latina Christiana I

Literature: Alice in Wonderland

Mathematics: Teaching Textbooks 5

History: The Story of The World, Volume I

Science: Florida Science

Leanne is preparing for the heavy workload of the Challenge A curriculum through Classical Conversations that she will be working with in the Fall. She will also be learning a new instrument through a local homeschool band program that she will attend in the summer. So far it looks like percussion, but we will have a better idea after she tries the different instruments. She is looking forward to her SeaWorld camp in July. This year she will have two buddies with her at camp!

As for me, I continue to love homeschooling the girls. I feel as though I am learning right along with them. I love the time we share reading aloud on the couch in the middle of day. Especially when the weather is beautiful and we take our reading outside on the porch near the pool with the sound of birds chirping in the background! Aww, the beauty of homeschooling! I am truly Blessed!

I will be teaching Latin in Leanne's Challenge A class at Classical Conversations. Latin, who would have ever thought I would be teaching Latin! I am very excited about this new journey! I am looking forward to the FPEA Florida Homeschool Convention at the end of this month. This is my time to rejuvenate and prepare for the following school year. :)

I look forward to continue being a member of the Board for our Parent Support Group, Girl Scout Leader and soon to be Latin Tutor. My goal for this coming year is to participate in the Disney Princess Marathon next Spring. So I will be training for this marathon throughout this coming year.

Wow, you don't realize how busy you actually are until you take the time to reflect on all that you have done and are preparing to do!

Until my next update, Ciao!

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