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Orange Shirt Day and Indigenous Education

 Mom here. I know it's not Wednesday and we just posted but I wanted to share with Liam and Aria worked on today to round out our First Nations/Indigenous unit study this month.  Here is our newsletter. If you can't read the print, here is a PDF.

All About Me (Alastrin) and my Past School Week

     Hey, this is Alastrin. I am currently in grade 10. I have a total of 11 classes that I am going to do this year. The first semester consists of Astronomy, English, Mythology, Spanish, Mathematics (Algebra 2), and American Sign Language (ASL). Next semester I'll be taking Latin, History, Visual Arts, French, and Chemistry.      All throughout my Elementary years I had always been a bit bored since the work was far too easy for me. I of course liked that I understood the subjects and wasn't falling behind. I just didn't feel challenged too often. Since I have started high school, I've come to quickly realize just how different it was from my previous years. I had been doing in-person school for the first semester of grade 9. Overall I had a good experience. The teachers and students were all nice and everything. The only problem I had was the workload. Each class was 2 and a half hours long, and we did roughly 4 lessons a day. As well as tests and projects every othe

Introduction

 Here is where we will share photos and stories of what we have done each week for homeschool. The students themselves and the teacher (me) will take turns every Wednesday to write for the blog. Tune in every Wednesday night to see what's new.  We will also be sharing work we've written, things we've drawn and more. The kids LOVE comments!