This year we decided to sign up with a new charter school called Colearn. They are set up to support homeschool families. It's flexible so we can use their curriculum or our own. If we use our own, we have to submit work and grades to them. By using them, we get funding, which is really helpful. It also means Jalen gets a real report card and diploma. They also set up two field trips a month with families across the state. A lot of the people we did co-op with ended up joining Colearn so it replaced our group.
The only bad part is we have to do standardized testing. We ended up only using their course for English - IEW C. We tried their Algebra class, but it was terrible. We found out they were using a curriculum they hadn't vetted. We ended up doing Khan Math. This year Jalen had to take the Algebra EOC.
Our first fieldtrip was roller skating on August 24. It was a fun way to get started and get to know more people.
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| Jalen and Alee |
We hadn't been skating in a long time, but Jalen did pretty good.
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| Meagan, Jalen, Natalie (headed to BYU), Alee |
The Mom Crew
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| Nicole Welden, Jen Bebee, Beth Bailey, Rachel Luz, Me, Kathy Kent |
Turns out Beth can skate!
The Everts
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| Kaitlyn, Kyle, Declan |
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| Jenn and her youngest, Rebekah Kent |
Jalen had a pretty good time.
The next field trip was September 12. I didn't go so Jalen went with the Baileys.
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| Samuel Luz, Alee, Gideon, Jalen |
They even created an AI version of themselves!
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