School Schedule 2008 - 2009

This is a tenitive school schedule. After a week I will advise it. I am concerned that I'm not giving enough time for certain subjects and too much time for others.

Three and on the computer

I found this picture on my laptop. I usually don't put pictures on the laptop but onto the big computer. This was taken when Zachary was 3 years old. We were moving from Dallas to Mount Pleasant and he needed something to do while we were loading the U-Haul. I thought this was just too cute. They way he was sitting and that it is amazing that in our society today 3 year olds can work the computer. Man, hasn't the world changed so much since we were 3 years old. I didn't get a computer till I was in high school and really didn't work on it much till college. Things have changed.

Science Fair '08

Zachary entered his first science Fair this week. He had been working on it for the past month. His topic was "How does Tap, Bottled, and Salt Water effect the growth of a plant? " He had 3 plants all the same and watered them everyday. The day before the science fair his conclusion was that Tap water was OK, Bottle water killed the plant and Salt water made the plant grow the most and look the best. Yes, that's right Salt water wasn't killing the plant and bottle water was killing the plant. We were starting to wonder what was in the bottle water. The day of the science fair our results changed. The bottle watered plant was sooooo pretty and the salt water plant was dying.

We entered the project anyway even through his poster board didn't match the plants. He talked to the judes and they were impressed with his reading ability. He just read off the poster board instead of presenting his project. Hey, it was his first time and he did great. He didn't place but he did get a ribbon and 3 free tickets to the local fair.

I took pictures on my cell phone. I will try to post the pictures later.

First Post - What is this about

I will attempt to post about everyday life here at the Alexander's house. I will even try to write articles that I am passionate about. I also would like for this to be an online scrap/baby book for both of my kidos. So, let me introduce everyone.

My oldest son is Zachary A. Alexander. He was born November 2001. He is now 6 years old. We are currently homeschooling him, thus the title of the blog "The Alexander Academy". Zachary has always been a bright kid and ahead of his peers in academics. By the time he turned 2 years old he already knew all his basic colors, basic shapes, could count from 1 - 100 (by himself) and had a huge vocabulary. When he was 2 he learned all his letters and their sounds. He started sounding out 3 and 4 letter words. He also was corresponding counting objects to the correct number. When he was 3 he read his first book. He also started doing simple addition and really got interested in science topics. He was working at a Kindergarten level. At 4 his reading progress and he could read most any children's books his math had increased also. At 5 when he was enrolled into public school Kindergarten he was reading Magic Tree House chapter books, adding with carrying, starting to borrowing with subtraction, and knew his 0's, 1's and 10's multiplication facts. I really hadn't exposed him to upper level math b/c I knew he was already ahead of the other Kindergarteners. Kindergarten didn't go very well. He had behavioral issue because he was bored in class. We asked son to be moved up but they told us he was social behind the other kids b/c he didn't know how to act in school. He wasn't place in daycare as an infant so he didn't grow up in a childcare/preschool environment so this made hims social behind his peers. We had Zachary tested during Christmas of 2007 using the CAT (California Achievement Test) for 1st graders. He made a 97% on the test. We presented the test to the school and they still would not move him up. We requested that Zachary skip 1st grade and go to 2nd the next year per the school policy. They said he would have to meet all 3 criteria to skip and one of them was that he needed a districts representative to recommendation and the principal wouldn't give it. So, we are homeschooling this year. It is going great and Zachary is loving being able to work at his academic level.

My youngest child is a beautiful little girl. She was born December 2007 at 5 weeks early. She might have been early but she was just right. She weighed 6 lbs. 7 oz. and 19 inches long. She is now 9 mths old and weighs 20 lbs. and wears 12-18 mths cloths. She is in the 90th % for her height. She is beginning to crawl, plays peek-a-boo, signs "more" for food, has her 1st tooth, says da-da and has told her NaNa "No" by shaking her head no.

My husband is Mark Alexander. He is the owner of Superior Mortgage Service in Mount Pleasant, Texas. www.SuperiorMortgageTX.com He has been in this type of business for more than 10 years.

And My self. I am Katherine Alexander also known as Kathy. I too run a business an online business called www.AbundantCrosses.com. I sell all different type of products that has a cross on it like shirts and items that are a cross like wall crosses and jewelry.