Enrollment

This week, we made the decision to enroll our youngest children, our daughters T & A ages 6 and 5, respectively into the Virtual Academy at K12. It’s a bittersweet moment for me. On the one hand, I am excited about the learning and challenges they willl experience throughout the school year. On the other, my babies are growing up! How did that happen? I look at them and think they are so small and precious, how could I possibly let them out of my sight! Thankfully, I don’t have to. We didn’t intend to enroll them in the public school system so young. We independently homeschooled E through the third grade. We only decided to enroll him in K12 for financial reasons. Praise the Lord it was an available option in our state. We didn’t have the option in NY. Anyhoo, the applications have been submitted for T & A so now we wait for the telephone conference with our PAL (Personal Admissions Liaison) to answer some questions to fill in the blanks, perhaps submit other documentation. They don’t know about their new enrollment yet. I will wait until the enrollment is approved before I let them in on the change. They are gonna be so excited. New computers! I’ll be excited for them until then. In the meanwhile, I need to figure out organization for the new school items. Time to purge!! They will get a lot of stuff. I’m so excited!

Intro to Us!

Welcome to Missions Academy. I’m a wife to a wonderful husand and mom to three wonderful blessings. My son E is 10, daughter Tae is 6 and daughter A (yaya) is 5. I knew I wanted to homeschool before my oldest child turned one. It’s always been something I knew I would do. I never wanted anyone other than family to look after my child and future children. To this day, only one friend has ever watched (babysat) any of my children and that was only once. Nothing against her but we are very protective of our blessings. Anyhoo, I was able to leave work after my second child was born in 2005 and we’ve been going strong ever since. We’ve always been independent homeschoolers until the 2011-12 school year when we enrolled my son in K12′s virtual academy. What a change. Now as my youngest is reaching compulsory school age, the husband and I have decided it would be a good idea to enroll our daughters in the school as well. After searching many, many blogs and educational resources, I didn’t find many families like mine; Multiple age/grade students all doing online school at home. So, I decided I would start this little blog to document our journey of having multiple students enrolled in a virtual academy. So although the current school year is winding down and E is getting ready to take his very first state assessments, we are preparing to introduce our youngest children to the world of public education… AT HOME!