Ten years ago, these two 27/28 year olds, brought home our first baby! 
And here we are now, on the day our baby turned TEN!
For my records, here is a breakdown of our curriculum for the second semester...
Reading Lessons and Read Alouds: Both kids completed their All About Reading curriculum with about 3 weeks to spare! Reid's program had 63 lessons and Georgia Kate's program had 54 lessons. I am hopeful that this curriculum bridged the phonics gap from 1st and 2nd grade. We finished the semester with a novel study on Stuart Little. Our other read alouds for the semester were The Very, Very Far North, Toliver's Secret (which tied into our Revolutionary War study), and Henry Huggins.
Writing: We completed the writing process on another piece of realistic fiction and the kids each did a research paper on a marine animal to tie into our marine biology science unit.
English: writing and punctuating dialogue correctly, dictionary skills, comparatives/superlatives, conjunctions, helping and linking verbs, verb tenses, irregular past tense verbs, and prepositions.
Math:
Georgia - She completed her Math Made Fun curriculum. This semester covered graphs, time, money, measurement, and an introduction to multiplication. She's also continued to work hard on memorizing addition and subtraction facts.
Reid - We finished most of book 3B in his Singapore Dimensions curriculum. I am going to give him a little break and then we are going to do one more chapter in July (area and perimeter) to make sure he's where he needs to be for next year. This semester he worked on multiplication and long division, fractions, measurement, and geometry.
Social Studies/History: Our big history unit of the semester was the Revolutionary War. We spent most of our time on the Boston Tea Party and George Washington. We also covered US symbols and landmarks. The kids also mastered all of the states and capitals.
Science: I am using different science units from The Good and the Beautiful. This semester we did The Human Body (skeletal system, muscular system, respiratory system, circulatory system, nervous system, digestive system, urinary system, immune system, and integumentary system) and Marine Biology (ocean characteristics, ocean zones, tides and intertidal zones, coral reefs, marine invertebrates, marine reptiles, fish, sharks, and marine mammals). The Human Body unit was really fun! We went a little more quickly through Marine Biology, and only briefly touched on certain topics, but I think they enjoyed it.
It's the end of an era! Our last baby graduated from preschool. We've had a child at this preschool for 7 years! I am so thankful that Rhett got to have a relatively normal preschool year AND a preschool graduation. He had the sweetest class and awesome teachers.
Normally the preschool does one big graduation for 5 classes at once. This year, they did one class at a time and it was so nice! The teachers were able to make it more personable. They shared a Fruit of the Spirit that they felt described each child. Rhett's word was "gentleness" because "he is careful not to hurt is friends and never raises his voice in anger". This made me so proud! I wouldn't use the word gentleness to describe him at home, so I'm glad he is gentle at school. :) The class also sang a couple of songs and recited a Bible verse. It was a sweet night!
