Homeschooling!
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Homeschooling Charge! |
This is our first year of homeschooling. Eve, our oldest, did public kindergarten last year, but beyond kindergarten we really wanted to try homeschooling our kids. Quick overview of why we opted to try homeschooling:
1) Academic - Yes, we do think we can do a better job.
2) Religious/Moral - We
3) Time - We want to enjoy our kids growing up. I actually relish the time I get to spend learning with my kids. They're awesome!
The picture above is the day we got most of our homeschooling supplies. Eli dove right into the math cubes and made... a sword. Yep.
It's funny how much I enjoy math. I get excited when working with the kids and have to restrain myself from buying more math manipulatives. Beyond the MathLink Cubes
Here's *most of* our other curriculum. We're starting off with a mix, which works well with us. Some
Quick Breakdown:
Math - Singapore Math Standards Edition, 1A and 1B. We have the workbooks, textbooks, and 1A activity guide. They recommend testing your kids before choosing a level, as it's not necessarily grade based. I'm going to get the 1A workbook for Eli this year too, since he's following along really well and I hadn't even bothered to test him. Probably an extra problems workbook too. Love this curriculum so far.
Science - My (formerly a science teacher) husband is doing the science for the kids following along with the "What's Science All About?
History - <Story of the World Vol1
Language - We picked up A Beka Letters and Sounds 1 and Language 1. We got them recently, so we'll see how they go. At first glance they seem nice, but I'm worried that it'll be too much activity work for a slight amount of learning. We'll see though, Eve really likes activity sheets. For reading, we're just picking up history related books (suggested by the history activity guide) and regular easy readers at the library. We're also having the kids write in their journals at least once a week.
French - We got the Power Glide French Unit. I'm not a fan. We're still going to keep trying it, but I feel we could have done a better job ourselves. (I might talk my video-game-programming-husband into making something interactive for French if I can't find anything better). We're also doing a sort of french language & cooking combo. Eve loves to help in the kitchen, so we introduce a lot of words in French as we go. J'aime le gateau!
In addition to what we're doing at home, we're also in a co-op with 3 other families (surprisingly made up of 3 homeschooling dads (including my hubby), and 1 homeschooling mom). Art, literature, and science are the primary focus, fun is the second :) There are 10 kids in the group - five in the big kids group, four in the little, and poor Eli is stuck somewhere in between.
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A fresh box of crayons make everything more fun. |
And that's about it.... I'll leave you with some pictures of our archaeology dig (the neighbors must have though I was crazy digging up the parking lot the night before).
...and if I get around to it we have a funny video of the dig I want to post.
2 comments:
You guys are taking mastering the art of french cooking to a whole new level :)
Since we use cake mixes and the like, I don't think there's much French going on beyond the language being spoken :)
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