K12–1st Grade

K12 was a big success for us!  We really loved the program and enjoyed our year with them! Of course, there were frustrating moments each day, and it wasn’t always pleasant getting K to “buckle down” and “focus!” and “stay on task!”, but that had more to do with moods and personality than with the school. :)  I think the K12 format really cut down on those frustrating moments because it is a very engaging program with lots of fun computer games and activities to go with each subject. 

We loved the three teachers we worked with!  One of our writing class connect sessions was on letter writing so K wrote the teacher a letter and received one back a week later!  I was surprised by how much I learned myself through her lessons (or maybe how much I’d forgotten)! 

Art was one of the favorites all year.  Here are a few things she did…

A “clay” pot.

A bird made only out of paper.

An Ancient Chinese “silk” painting such as would be found in the tomb of royalty or a very wealthy person.

She took this picture of herself in the dark and then ran to me…“Mommy! I made a pointillism picture!”

This is one of our “busy” sheets.  Bug really needs to have her hands moving at all times so I would print out sheets like this for her to color while she listened to me read.

Here is her first writing assignment of the year: 

And her last.  You can see the improvement in spelling, finger spaces, punctuation, capitalization, and content/length.

Science and History were her other two favorite subjects. Here is her human body that we worked on for several weeks.  She had several lessons detailing the various systems in the body.

It seemed like ALL year we battled with distraction in the form of these two…

And then in the last two days all of the sudden they would sit quietly and color or play with clay while we worked! :P Hopefully that carries over into next year!

Peanut’s drawings are getting quite meticulous!  She makes tiny, little marks in specific spots, as opposed to her previous scribble till you drop method. :)

We did most of our work at the kitchen counter, but Bug usually took her math workbook to the living room for a change of scenery.

Yes, there were hard moments, but overall I was extremely pleased with our year!  K12 is an awesome program and we are already registered and looking forward to next year.  I highly recommend it!