How Have We Done on Meeting Our Summer Goals?

Back in May, I posted about my goals for this summer. We met almost all of them.

First, my goals for this blog. I said 3 months ago that I wanted to "re-introduce" who we are, and how we began homeschooling. I accomplished that goal. I'd also said I wanted to talk more about our particular situation, how I came to be divorced, and being a single, stay-at-home-home-schooling-mom. I haven't gotten around to writing about all that, but give me time.

Goals for the girls this summer? We met ALL of them!

> Both girls successfully finished another season of softball.
> E has successfully learned to read music, and her piano playing is improving daily. She has set a personal goal for herself to memorize every piece she plays, and so far, she has done so.
>C....well, C has FAR surpassed my expectations with her violin lessons! She has completed her "beginner" book. Her teacher said she is the best student he has ever had, and that most of his students take a year just to get through HALF of this book. C has completed the ENTIRE book in only 11 lessons.

Academic goals? I hadn't set many for C, and in fact, said that if she did NO school over the summer, it would be okay. However...

>C completed chapter 5 of her math, and is therefore 35% of the way done with 7th grade math.
> C also completed module 1 of General Science.

And E also met and surpassed the academic goals I'd set for her...

>After reading through her 3rd grade R&S English, I scrapped our Language Arts goals for the summer. R&S is very comprehensive, and there was no need to finish FLL.
>E completed the first 20 lessons of her science. (out of 66 total lessons)
>E completed the first 30 lessons (and 3 tests) of her 3rd grade math.
>And....drum roll, please...FINALLY E has learned, every letter of the alphabet, lowercase, and upper-case, in CURSIVE! She loves cursive. And while she still writes slower than most children her age, her cursive is beautiful (unlike her printing) and it is marginally quicker for her. She JUST learned "Z" Friday morning, before leaving to go visit her dad for 2 weeks, but we DID it! She is very excited to begin her R&S English and Spelling, and I told her we couldn't begin Spelling until she could write in cursive, because we intend to do all her spelling in cursive. She will also have 1 copywork sentence each day to help her practice.

So, although it seemed most days this summer I had no time to do HALF of what I wanted to...the girls and I did manage to get all our academic goals met. They also had time for softball, music lessons/practice, and tons of daily play-time with friends.