Had my biweekly phone call with the teacher today.
I told her that we are not liking the music lessons, at all -- and asked whether next year we could get a waiver to be able to do piano lessons or something instead of the music curriculum (or only do one music lesson/week while doing piano lessons or some other music lessons).
She said that she has actually suggested this to the state director, and asked me to send her an email documenting what our challenges are with the music lessons, and what we'd like to do instead. She also told me to make sure to use the feedback link on k12 itself to let them know what is not working for us about the music program, too. She said they do pay attention to that sort of feedback.
Soo -- for those of us who have feedback and 'constructive criticism' of how music, phonics, etc. have worked, let's remember to take advantage of that opportunity.
I feel like we're treading water on our progress -- I didn't get any school done at. all. with Ina over the past weekend, too busy working on canning apples etc. But I have 1-2 batches of dried apples to make now, and I'll be done with the apples. And I'm delusional enough to think that the build-up to the Holidays won't impinge on our time over the next 6 weeks or so.
Is anyone planning to do supplemental holiday lessons as Thanksgiving and Christmas approach (for those who celebrate Christmas)?
I told her that we are not liking the music lessons, at all -- and asked whether next year we could get a waiver to be able to do piano lessons or something instead of the music curriculum (or only do one music lesson/week while doing piano lessons or some other music lessons).
She said that she has actually suggested this to the state director, and asked me to send her an email documenting what our challenges are with the music lessons, and what we'd like to do instead. She also told me to make sure to use the feedback link on k12 itself to let them know what is not working for us about the music program, too. She said they do pay attention to that sort of feedback.
Soo -- for those of us who have feedback and 'constructive criticism' of how music, phonics, etc. have worked, let's remember to take advantage of that opportunity.
I feel like we're treading water on our progress -- I didn't get any school done at. all. with Ina over the past weekend, too busy working on canning apples etc. But I have 1-2 batches of dried apples to make now, and I'll be done with the apples. And I'm delusional enough to think that the build-up to the Holidays won't impinge on our time over the next 6 weeks or so.
Is anyone planning to do supplemental holiday lessons as Thanksgiving and Christmas approach (for those who celebrate Christmas)?
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), and he also said that they could make an exemption to allow Ina to do music lessons instead of the k12 music, next year. 
-- I hope things begin to come together well again for your family. 
) - I just realized that recently, I'm managing things pretty well. I'm back to getting a daily walk in (YAY!), the house isn't totally falling apart .... My weekends are for catching up on k12 a little, and doing housework which doesn't get done as much during the week (laundry, mopping, clean the bathroom, run errands) - so the 'relaxing weekend' is not so much a part of my world, but it's not like my weekends were really relaxing before this anyway. 
We're always behind and I'm always feeling pressure from the higher ups. (our teacher is very sweet but I'm starting to get the feeling even from her that we really need to step it up a bit).
) and choose lessons I think she'll enjoy from the rest. She actually enjoys doing some of the hokier things, though, and Bella REALLY enjoys it so I find myself doing them rather often. Bean couldn't be bothered, and I was more than happy to skip it with him. I doubt that Bella will want to do it once she's actually kindergarten-aged, either.
