kids in reg. school, am setting up hs, and they want both...
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:12 am
Hi,
looking for some outside opinions!
I am starting the homeschooling adventure for what seem to be some pretty standard reasons, with two children, a son currently 6, and a daughter currenly 4.
Both are attending a local Christian school at the moment.
I had intended to start in "earnest" this September, but because we want the children on board, started talking about this and introducing homeschool things now. Our house is huge, so one of the things I did was set up a room. I have always had a craft room with art supplies, etc, which the children had pretty free reign in. But because of its location and my night working husband's need to sleep in the day, I have set up "our classroom" in a different location.
I am trying to follow the steps, joined a group, reading, joined this forum, etc. I have been hunting out cirriculum. One that I have purchased and am so excited about is the Math-U-See program... which will work perfect for our son. When it arrived he confirmed my thoughts on this issue!
Anyways... the children are over the moon about this! My son is coming home from a full-day of school, and wants to go straight to the classroom and work away (at the Math stuff in particular, one of his strong subjects).
Now he has required a lot of tutoring from me to stay on grade level, one of the reasons for homeschooling. But I have never seen him so positively charged!
BUT... should I be following this path? I am allowing them to do both for now. Thought I would ride the wave so to speak. BUT I don't want to make it harder for me later on.
From my readings today, I think that I will likely be starting them in earnest this summer instead of waiting till September. I have visited 7 families that homeschool and know that it doesn't take all day and I do want to keep momentum going here... but in the meantime, regular school goes until almost the end of June in Canada and I don't want to kill this spirit before then!
Help! Advice! Comments! I'm listening!
Roberta
looking for some outside opinions!
I am starting the homeschooling adventure for what seem to be some pretty standard reasons, with two children, a son currently 6, and a daughter currenly 4.
Both are attending a local Christian school at the moment.
I had intended to start in "earnest" this September, but because we want the children on board, started talking about this and introducing homeschool things now. Our house is huge, so one of the things I did was set up a room. I have always had a craft room with art supplies, etc, which the children had pretty free reign in. But because of its location and my night working husband's need to sleep in the day, I have set up "our classroom" in a different location.
I am trying to follow the steps, joined a group, reading, joined this forum, etc. I have been hunting out cirriculum. One that I have purchased and am so excited about is the Math-U-See program... which will work perfect for our son. When it arrived he confirmed my thoughts on this issue!
Anyways... the children are over the moon about this! My son is coming home from a full-day of school, and wants to go straight to the classroom and work away (at the Math stuff in particular, one of his strong subjects).
Now he has required a lot of tutoring from me to stay on grade level, one of the reasons for homeschooling. But I have never seen him so positively charged!
BUT... should I be following this path? I am allowing them to do both for now. Thought I would ride the wave so to speak. BUT I don't want to make it harder for me later on.
From my readings today, I think that I will likely be starting them in earnest this summer instead of waiting till September. I have visited 7 families that homeschool and know that it doesn't take all day and I do want to keep momentum going here... but in the meantime, regular school goes until almost the end of June in Canada and I don't want to kill this spirit before then!
Help! Advice! Comments! I'm listening!
Roberta