9th Grade Home School Preparations and Planning

My oldest will begin "high school" next year. We've wrapped up the general curriculum for his 8th grade and for the rest of April/May and June he'll be working on a course for presentation skills and public speaking, typing, violin, piano, and continuing to improve body mechanics and critical thinking skills. He'll continue with his math through www.kahnacademy.com and we'll begin learning Vedic Math with both my boys. Starting to plan in the spring before then next year is always the best idea. It gives you the time and presence of mind to evaluate strengths and weaknesses and lay out the whole 4 year journey ahead with an over arching purpose of seeing your child thrive and graduate as a competent, intelligent, happy, whole human being...add to this any of your own personal and family values, along with your child's deep interests. By this time I've already done life coaching and providing success principles to both the boys. As a trained and practicing Success Coach, it really helps to reverse engineer what their goals are and set up a healthy and nourishing learning style and frame work that will foster the child's interests and well being while also providing challenge and obstacles for them to get stronger and build capacity for resilience and understanding. This is where the Vision Quest was so powerful when Ryder was 11. If you haven't done a Vision Quest with your child and they are older, I'd suggest creating a ritual that helps connect them with their higher self, their inner powerhouse both physically and mentally/spiritually. You can align it with your beliefs. Ours happened to be of a heritage of Native and spirituality and we foster a unique allowance of the unique voice in each being as it aligns and interacts in harmony with the web of the universe.