So I jumped the gun and did a practice day last Friday. We started with prayer and the first question Mac asked was why, which was neat because I was able to explain to her even part of why we were homeschooling and already it was challenging me.
So cute, whatever I brought forward she was so ready to soak in. We started with our Bible time of We Choose Virtues and this week was on patience. Perfect start. We moved onto calendar time next and that was a little difficult because I didn't have the right markers. It's a good idea to use fine tip washable markers. And then she wanted to make things perfect so she kept trying to erase her writing- that subject will require a little more time than I thought. Then handwriting from Handwriting without Tears, which went easier than I thought it would.
We took a break after a half hour. Ellie was definitely hard to keep track of while teaching. She's crawling, pulling up to a stand and basically getting into everything.
We finished with math for kindergarteners from Horizons, which was a breeze! And then reading from Ordinary Parents Guide to Reading, again easy at this point.
Part of this is figuring out how far she is ahead. So total is only took about an hour, which was comforting.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
A First For Our Family
August 15, 2013
EEEEKKK! Homeschooling.
Is that what we really decided? On September 2nd of this year am I really not going to send my five year old daughter Mac to a traditional school that both my husband and I grew up in? I haven't even started homeschooling and I'm already freaking out every other week if we are making the right decision. The good thing about being in America is the freedom... right? So this is our decision for now, for this year, and we'll see where it goes from there.
We have a five year old daughter who will turn six in September and she is full of energy and charisma and loves to be around people. So why are we homeschooling? For a lot of reasons but the main reason was that we felt God leading that direction. This year our daughter is on a junior team for gymnastics and if we put her in the public school by us, we wouldn't see her two days of the week, add onto that Awana's and with my husband's job working late night, we weren't ready for her to be away from us that long.
And we really rustled with the verse in Deut 6:5-7 that says "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
We felt that as a family we needed to be around each other to grow as a family personally and spiritually. Plus, the more I researched websites, talked to friends and friends of friends that homeschool there is something different about the families that homeschool. There is a bigger bond and a closer knit to the family unit. If we are to be a light in the world, that means there should be something different about our family, and if it means having us closer, then I'm all for that! Already my firstborn has been with us a third of her life! Crazy to think about.
My other reasons that were big in the consideration, actually one of my husband's big reasons is that you can only miss ten school days before you start getting in trouble and five more missed days where you really get in trouble with the school district and with our vacation schedule and my husband and daughter's skiing schedule, we will already miss a lot more.. And then there's the academic individualized plan and a want for us to create a loving, fun to learn atmosphere for our daughter.
Whew! So all that to say, we will be starting in a few weeks. We'll see how it goes.
EEEEKKK! Homeschooling.
Is that what we really decided? On September 2nd of this year am I really not going to send my five year old daughter Mac to a traditional school that both my husband and I grew up in? I haven't even started homeschooling and I'm already freaking out every other week if we are making the right decision. The good thing about being in America is the freedom... right? So this is our decision for now, for this year, and we'll see where it goes from there.
We have a five year old daughter who will turn six in September and she is full of energy and charisma and loves to be around people. So why are we homeschooling? For a lot of reasons but the main reason was that we felt God leading that direction. This year our daughter is on a junior team for gymnastics and if we put her in the public school by us, we wouldn't see her two days of the week, add onto that Awana's and with my husband's job working late night, we weren't ready for her to be away from us that long.
And we really rustled with the verse in Deut 6:5-7 that says "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
We felt that as a family we needed to be around each other to grow as a family personally and spiritually. Plus, the more I researched websites, talked to friends and friends of friends that homeschool there is something different about the families that homeschool. There is a bigger bond and a closer knit to the family unit. If we are to be a light in the world, that means there should be something different about our family, and if it means having us closer, then I'm all for that! Already my firstborn has been with us a third of her life! Crazy to think about.
My other reasons that were big in the consideration, actually one of my husband's big reasons is that you can only miss ten school days before you start getting in trouble and five more missed days where you really get in trouble with the school district and with our vacation schedule and my husband and daughter's skiing schedule, we will already miss a lot more.. And then there's the academic individualized plan and a want for us to create a loving, fun to learn atmosphere for our daughter.
Whew! So all that to say, we will be starting in a few weeks. We'll see how it goes.
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