School Plan for the 2022/2023 School Year

It is hard to believe that this is my 2nd to last year of homeschooling! And, that after 8 years of Timeline Tuesday, that will be no more...all 3 of my children have gone through all four years of the Tapestry of Grace curriculum at the Dialectic/Rhetoric level and completed a timeline of major events and people from the beginning of time to present day. So very cool!

This blog has followed me through most of my homeschooling years and I know this past year I have not blogged at all. I might keep it up with pictures of life and travel, but, we'll see... I've been working hard on priorities this past year and not overcommitting and sometimes, working on the blog, is just one too many things to add to my "to do list". For now, enjoy the updates!

Printing and working on scheduling our soon to begin school year.

First day of school will be Monday, 22 August 2022.

I always make a new sign for the year and get them their favorite candy and some new writing utensils for the school year.

Nathan's last sign while at home!

My girl, a junior in high school this year.

Gwangi, senior in high school.

All of us together.

And because Vera just has to get in the pictures...

And because we can't not include Clara, even though she shouldn't be on the table...

This school year, we are back around to Year 1 of the Tapestry of Grace curriculum for our 4th time. I have Gwangi as a 12th grader/Senior and Sissi is an 11th grader/Junior. Over at Liberty University, we have Krypto as a Sophomore and we'll start off with sharing his course load for the Fall Semester of 2022.

Krypto - Sophomore in College at Liberty University

Krypto is taking 18 credit hours this semester, which is a full load all by itself. Add to that a couple of his classes are Honors classes, his 1 credit AFROTC class actually takes 3.5 hours of classroom time, required PT (physical training) three mornings a week plus some extra personal working out time, and Liberty requires every undergrad to perform 20 hours a semester of community service and you can see he's a busy guy! 

After completing his freshman year he is still on the Dean's List and has maintained his 4.0 GPA. He is majoring in History and has two minors; Creative Writing and Military Leadership. He will be living in Commons 1 on the 8th floor, the Honors Floor, this upcoming year. He has his same roommate from last year and a wonderful group of friends that he hangs out with. He'll also be GM'ing (game mastering) a RPG (role playing group) weekly that has 8 members in it and he continues to work on writing his books and hopes to publish something new in the coming year.

His classes this upcoming semester are as follows:

1. Research 201 - 3 credits
2. Information Technology 103 - 1 credit
3. Theology 201- 2 credits
4. Geography 200 - 3 credits
5. Modern American Military History 380 - 3 credits
6. Evangelism 101 - 2 credits
7. Russian 101 - 3 credits
8. AIRS 210 and Leadership Lab - 1 credit

Krypto's Fall 2022 Schedule

Gwangi - 12th grader/Senior in high school

Gwangi is starting his last year of homeschool with us. That means all the scholarship applications and prep for college have begun. He applied this summer and has been accepted at Liberty University and will be majoring in Computer Science starting in August of 2023!

During his free time he loves to paint and play with miniature figures from the game Star Wars Legion and he also has a RPG group here in Bishkek that has about 3 or 4 players. We're going to miss him so much when he heads off to college in a year!

Gwangi's acceptance to Liberty University from this June.

His classes for this upcoming school year are as follows:

1. Calculus with Math U See
2. Accounting and Stewardship with Math U See
3. Advanced Biology - Anatomy and Physiology w/ Lab with Apologia
4. History, Literature, Art History, Government, Philosophy, and Bible with Tapestry of Grace
5. Biblical Archaeology with Master Books
6. AP Computer Science with The Potter's School
7. Analytical Grammar Review Sheets

Most of Gwangi's books on the floor, ready to go for Monday morning.

Sissi - 11th grader/Junior in high school

This is Sissi's last year of homeschool with a sibling at home and she is a bit concerned about being "lonely" next year. SO, this year we moved a few things around so that she and Gwangi could do a couple of classes together. Praying that it makes it more fun for them both and that her final year at home we can find some other homeschoolers to hang out with here in Bishkek...definitely a prayer request for this coming year!

Sissi's desire at this time is to become a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and work overseas. She will be doing a 4 year ungrad/BSN and then applying to 4 year DNP programs that have specialization in psychiatric health like Johns Hopkins and Duke. She has done a pre-application to Liberty University (they won't let us know about final acceptance until we have a transcript completed through her Junior year) and is looking at some other schools as well. 

Her classes for the coming school year include:

1. Pre-Calculus with Math U See
2. Advanced Biology - Anatomy and Physiology w/ Lab with Apologia
3. History, Literature, Art History, Government, Philosophy, and Bible with Tapestry of Grace
4. Biblical Archaeology with Master Books
5. Introduction to Nursing with The Potter's School
6. Analytical Grammar Review Sheets
7. Guitar and Aikido lessons

Sissi's books and bag, ready to go for next Monday morning.