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Post by bunnyfungo on Jan 16, 2019 13:14:12 GMT -6
Hey, Just so it’s not just me and hawkward talking to ourselves, I’m tagging the people from the original thread in GD: hawkward,@kokopelli, Radley, catlady22, sunnysideup, quinn, lildiamondeyes, Queen Mamadala, beesquared, Come tell us about your homeschoolers. Ages? Curriculum? Concerns? Anything?
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Post by hawkward on Jan 16, 2019 13:28:47 GMT -6
DS1 is coming up on 8, and he's kinda sorta in the second grade (I pulled him from second grade PS in October), but he's doing quite a bit of third grade work these days. We were overly ambitious at first and flew through work the first couple of months before I made myself chill out. I think he was headed for an ADHD diagnosis if we'd have left him in school, so we have to be conscious of helping him focus, but otherwise, he's bright and my biggest challenge is keeping ahead of him.
DS2 just turned 4, and we're starting pre-K stuff. I thought about waiting another year, but I think we're going to jump into kindergarten after our summer vacation. We're using Montessori workbooks and doing tons of reading right now. When we get more formal, I think we'll start out with Logic of English and see how things go.
We're eclectic, I guess? I kind of learn toward the classical style but it does not appeal to DS1 at all, so we just cobble together what works for us for the time being.
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Post by quinn on Jan 16, 2019 13:40:15 GMT -6
👋 I actually dont homeschool yet. I was considering creating a thread once it picks up here because I'm clueless on how to begin and it all seems daunting.
I have 4 boys ages 14,12,3, and 14mos. The older 2 I plan to keep in the public school system (for now since) but MH and I want to homeschool the younger ones.
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Post by bunnyfungo on Jan 16, 2019 13:44:39 GMT -6
Oh, yeah. I should probably answer my own questions 😂
DD1 is 6. She did a year of public school Kindergarten and when things were up in the air and we didn’t know where we would be living, we made the call to homeschool until it gets figured out. We’ve jumped around a bit with curricula and how to set up our day but I think we’ve finally got a good flow going. She’s way ahead of Grade level with reading, but behind on math. So I’m trying to find ways to encourage her because I don’t want her to get caught in the “I hate math,” trap. We’ve gotten really into board games which has been a good way to work on addition and subitizing in the form of dice.
DD2 will be 5 in a month and I’ve recently added her into the fold. She’s been begging to learn how to read, despite the fact that she can actually read if she lets herself get over her perfectionism (don’t know where she got that 😬). So we started Logic of English and she’s loving it. She also asked to start playing Prodigy, the math computer game that DD1 plays and she surprised me on the pretest by knowing the numbers to 100, knowing greater than and less than, and fucking multiplication. I have done none of that with her. And now I don’t know what to do with that 😳 So, I’ve got some research to do.
I also have a 3 year old (in a week) that sometimes jumps in on the LoE games but I have no desire to do any formal learning with her for awhile. And, I have a 6 month old that acts as our timer. Because once she’s done self-entertaining or napping, school stuff is DONE.
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Post by lildiamondeyes on Jan 16, 2019 13:53:25 GMT -6
Hi. A is 4, N is 3 and G is 20 months. We started out with letter of the week/day stuff. Currently A picks our theme for the week and I find stuff on Pinterest/blogs that matches. Example: we have done oceans, farms, forests and next week is family. I am constantly surprised how much stuff I can find that are math, letters, writing, and crafts in our theme. I feel like I don't do enough some days and that I that expect too much out of them other days. I will start something more formal/prepared lessons over the summer. Sn: they have no interest in ABCmouse whatsoever. I'm kind of bummed about that.
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Post by catlady22 on Jan 16, 2019 14:20:27 GMT -6
Hi all! We haven't officially started homeschooling yet. I have 2 boys DS1 is newly 4 and DS2 is 2. They currently go to a preschool and we afterschool DS1 using the good and the beautiful and teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons. We only chose good and the beautiful because it was cheap, but I might try to find something more secular for later on.
I most likely will be working full time while homeschooling (at least for K and 1st), so I'm pretty nervous about that.
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Post by lildiamondeyes on Jan 16, 2019 14:35:53 GMT -6
catlady22 I looked into the 100 easy lessons for reading but wasn't 100% in. How do you like it?
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Post by catlady22 on Jan 16, 2019 15:01:11 GMT -6
catlady22 I looked into the 100 easy lessons for reading but wasn't 100% in. How do you like it? Yeah I hadn't looked through it before I bought it. It's not what I was expecting. It's not entertaining enough for a newly 4yo, however, I think it's an effective book.
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Post by Queen Mamadala on Jan 16, 2019 15:13:16 GMT -6
Hi, everyone!
My older two are 14 (8th grade) and 12 (6th grade). We started homeschooling through a local charter back in early October. My oldest was previously in our districts IBMYP for 7th and the start of 8th. She was on the honor roll at her first middle school for 6th grade. She found it very unchallenging, so when she was offered to submit a portfolio for the IB program, we jumped on it and she was accepted. We thought the program would be more rigorous and challenging, and while she enjoyed certain classes more than her previous school and really loved her Mandarin class, she still felt it was holding her back and the work was unchallenging and unmotivating. She knew mid-end of 7th grade that it wasn't the best fit, but the IB program is the top college-prep program in our region. I really wrestled with pulling her because the program offers so many great opportunities and resources. She was bored of busy work and wanted to sink her teeth into meatier topics.
And similar with my 6th grader, though she has ASD and we've been preparing to eventually homeschool her once she hit middle school. Over the summer she decided she wanted to see what it was like, but after several weeks, already dealing with an obnoxious bully, we decided to pull her. (she dealt with a bully in 3rd and 4th)
We went with a local charter. We receive educational funds for everything from purchasing curriculum to tech/art subscriptions, supplies, zoo memberships, field trips, seminars, extracurricular activities, tutoring, etc. We decided on Oak Meadow because it fits our educational and progressive philosophy on social issues. (I had some issues with how history subjects were covered in their previous schools). We supplement with projects we assign and their coursework is stimulating, relevant, and engaging. Dd1 is writing more essays and spending more time on creative writing. She's an aspiring writer with the goal to publish her first manuscript by 16. She dedicated November to NaNoWriMo and wrote 14000 words and has continued writing. We also set a challenge/goal for dd2 to write and illustrate a children's novel. Both girls continue working on their art as their primary elective and dd1 continues studying Mandarin and Japenese.
Both girls are great at self-directed and independent study. We go over their work and I review with them via my lesson guide. We visit with their assigned teacher once a month and provide work samples and all that jazz (this part is a bit silly and a joke).
We'll continue this route until/unless they express interest in re-enrolling in public school. Dd1 is still leaning toward applying to a boarding school in SoCal for 10th grade, but we'll see.
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Post by Radley on Feb 23, 2019 21:06:27 GMT -6
Hey! So late to the game, but here.
DS1 is 5 and in K, but we did pre-k last year. I have looked into several curriculums for next year but for pre-k and K I just looked up what was needed to be taught for the year and developed my own curriculum.
DS2 is 3 and mostly he just colors and we work on activities that fit with his OT goals when DS1 is doin school.
I was homeschooled K-12, as were my siblings, so my kids are going to be second generation homeschoolers.
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