Home*School*Home: Typical days.

Friday, March 06, 2009

Typical days.

Lately we have had some normal, typical days in our family and I am really grateful. I really need to stop and think about it more than I do. Sometimes when I'm at the skating rink, instead of thinking that the seats are hard, the music is loud and the air is cold, I should think, hey, at least I'm not at a hospital, sitting with someone in the ICU. I need to be thinking as I'm cleaning my house about how thankful I am to be home with my family and not having a crisis. I know tomorrow when I'm working the weekend at the hospital, I'll wish I was home! I'm a homebody at heart, as if you couldn't tell with my work-at-home, school-at-home lifestyle.

3 comments:

Amy said...: Oh, I am right there with ya, Dana....on being a Home-body!! As long as I can catch a little breather here & there, I'm totally content being at home.; 8:46 AM
Miekie said...: I admire you for doing two jobs! I like your being grateful for every day things - it is true, one needs to reflect more often on the positive side of things - play the glad game of Polyanna.
Good luck with the math's. In the bathroom? Well, if it works why not? Is he ADD? My son is severely ADDH and school was tough for him. He had to do math with a stop watch,(Kumon math's) otherwise he would take forever. Having to do 10 min of math each day every day 356 days of the year, helped. If he couldn't complete the assigned work in 10 min, he had to go back a few paces and gradually work his way up again. The idea was that math should never be difficult.; 3:05 PM
Miekie said...: I admire you for doing two jobs! I like your being grateful for every day things - it is true, one needs to reflect more often on the positive side of things - play the glad game of Polyanna.
Good luck with the math's. In the bathroom? Well, if it works why not? Is he ADD? My son is severely ADDH and school was tough for him. He had to do math with a stop watch,(Kumon math's) otherwise he would take forever. Having to do 10 min of math each day every day 356 days of the year, helped. If he couldn't complete the assigned work in 10 min, he had to go back a few paces and gradually work his way up again. The idea was that math should never be difficult.; 3:06 PM

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Homeschooling Advice.

1. Try it. You might enjoy it. It might change your life. It might not be your thing, but you won't know if you don't ever try.

2. Find out what your state (or country) requires, the bare minimum. Do this and then with the rest of it, have fun with it. It doesn't have to be all serious and it doesn't have to look like the inside of a classroom. You're at home. Relax. Play. Read. Learn together. Enjoy your kids. They grow up way too fast.

3. Don't let a written curriculum boss you around. If it works, great. If it's not working for you, throw it out. If only parts of it work, use those and throw the rest out. It's not the boss of you. When shopping for curriculum, read reviews. Try to go somewhere where you can actually hold the book in your hands and look through it. Print out a sample day or week and try and implement it or borrow it before buying. It's kind of hit and miss buying books without being able to see them.

4. Find a homeschool support group. Or two. If you can't find one in real life, find one online. Get support where ever you can.

5. Make a mess now and then. Go outside and put some mentos in coke. Make alka-seltzer rockets. Make some great art. Make a timeline and a map. Grow some borax crystals. Use levers to lift things. Make a trebuchet out of whatever you can find around the house.

6. Go on as many field trips as you can.

The point of this blog.

"there is a theme, if you read, you'll get a growing conviction that homeschooling is a lifestyle that is worthwhile, that it is extremely good for kids and families, that it promotes bonding, is a personalized education that is superior to what you can get anywhere else for your kids, is fun and can be done even if you have a 400 track mind, no math skills (thankfully my husband does though), through working, job changes, bad hair days, home remodeling, deaths, illness, surgery, broken bones and various other things and it actually makes dealing with these things easier, not harder, than it was when we were in the public schools, because homeschooling is so incredibly flexible. That's the point I've been trying to make for the last 5 years or so."

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