I need guidance for my situation
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:13 am
help, I am overwhelmed. I have four boys,ages 9,7,5, and 3.The five and seven year old are very active with a short attention spans and are quickly frustrated when they do not understand a concept.The nine year old is the typical,take charge older brother, who many times attempts to assume the role of parent to his brothers. He was in public school through third grade. In answer to prayer, my husband gave his permission for me to teach our children at home. I was and am thrilled but now as I attempt to actually teach a 4th,2nd, k,and prek, I have hit a wall after 1 month. I bought Konos in a box-Orderliness unit,of which I loved the concept but had difficulty actually implementing it. I am doing Five In A Row with the younger ones and I enjoy it. I feel like I might like to try an ocean or animal unit study and buy workbooks for language arts for the 9 and 7 year old. I am very content with saxon math for the boys. I really like Charolette Mason's approach to learning but while I am so new at this, I feel the need to be in some sort of planned curriculum for language arts. Time is also hard for me to manage at this point as I am having a hard time teaching the older boys while at the same time not at wanting to revert to cartoons or videos to keep the younger ones from curiously dismantling the rest of the house. I am feeling lots of guilt,lots of failure and confusion about the right curriculum choices. I've read lots and lots of books and articles on different teaching styles and methods but a great deal of them seem to be written for or about people with older children or less than three children. I have four very "active" boys at younger ages and I feel right now like I could really use some advice from seasoned homeschoolers who could relate to my situation. THANK YOU!!!