First year of homeschool!

Well, we've completed the first level of our literacy curriculum. To be honest, I'm not sure if it's considered pre-k or kindergarten, and I'm not sure if we weren't homeschooling if Catherine would have started kindergarten in this past fall or if we would have waited until next year. 

We started homeschooling in mid-January and finished at the end of November. We started her earlier than we had planned because with her diagnosis of oral-motor dyspraxia, some professionals told us she had a 50% chance of having learning disabilities with reading, literacy, and spelling. We wanted to have extra time to address those challenges as they came up. But guess what? She stayed up with the curriculum without missing a beat! She struggles with a couple pronunciation issues, but reads far better than I anticipated she would at five!

Our first ten week session Tiny and Baron (local friends) joined us. Our second session, we added Qinger. Our third session we added Princess and Hunter and Tiny decided she would like to be called Shiny since she wasn't Tiny anymore. 

I only assessed Catherine, Baron, and Shiny since they were the only one who completed the curriculum, but here are our stats:


31 weeks of homeschool completed! Students learned 26 letters, 4 digraphs,  ending s, and 44 sight words. 
Assessed students can:
Say all letter/digraph names with 98% accuracy 
Say all letter/digraph sounds with 100% accuracy 
Read phonetic words with 93% accuracy 
Spell phonetic words with 87% accuracy 
And recognize 44 sight words with 98% accuracy.


I'm really so proud of each of them. For Catherine charging through and excelling even with a "disability" and for the two others who are now literate in English first, although it's actually their THIRD language to understand/speak