Sixth Grade, Tenth Grade

DD is starting sixth grade, and DS is starting tenth, technically, although he's in a wonderful special needs school where they take into account student abilities before their ages.  He will be in the same class for the third year, with the same teacher.  She's wonderful.  She is calm, no matter what's going on.  The assistant teachers are also calm and caring and help wherever needed.  The biggest issue right now is that the bus is coming at 6:40 a.m. and DS will be on the bus for almost 2 hours.  I've been trying to fight this and gained a whole twelve minutes, as the original pick up time was 6:28. 
Sigh.  Fight, fight, fight.  The life of a special needs parent.  It's never easy. 
For sixth grade we're using My Father's World again, which is a great curriculum.  I'm not thrilled with the science because it's creation science that uses the Bible as a science textbook, which I'm not sure God intended.  He told us He did it, He didn't say how.  Science is like examining how He did it based on the evidence He left behind.  Creationism completely disregards and discredits traditional science, and traditional science completely disregards and discredits creation science.  So, we learn both.  Only God was there in the beginning and only God really knows how everything was done, so all anyone can do is theorize anyway.  The curriculum covers everything except Math, reading comprehension, and spelling, so we're using Math-U-See again, which is a multi-sensory, mastery approach to math that works well for DD's learning style.  We're also using Spectrum Spelling and Reading Comprehension, because DD likes workbooks.  So, we're all set for the year ahead. 
Summer was quiet, and nice.  We went camping again, and the weather was mostly nice, and we had a lovely, relaxing time.  My vegetable garden and DD's butterfly, bee, and hummingbird garden have turned out beautifully and grown lots of vegetables and attracted lots of insects and birds.  So, onto the next season.