Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Changes
Changes are in the air. The seasons, the kids and myself. If you would have asked me a month ago if I wanted to home school all three of the kids again my response would have been "HELL NO" but here we are getting ready to head down this road. I have changed my views on what is important to me, them and their education. I am tired of battling the schools for Caleb. He is always left in the dust and I will not leave behind any of my children. If these schools and administrators will not do what he needs I can and if they will not do it for one they do not get to do it for any of them. While they have taken care of Quinten and his needs and Riley and her needs yet they punish Caleb for THEM not meeting his needs. So we are done. My husband and I will take control of the kids education. We want to teach them to live and love life. We want to take them out of the box that the schools have put them in and teach them through their own interests. To teach them in ways that work for them. I know I learn better with a hands on approach. I know the boys are visual learners and Riley well she can learn anyway you hand it to her. The kids are very excited about doing what they are calling "fun homeschooling" lol. That is what I want. I want them to have so much fun they will not even know they are learning. The want to learn and learning in general will just come naturally to them. They will be learning reading, writing, speaking, math, history, civics, literature, science, and the constitution of the United States. And SO much more that is not required by law while trying to save a tree or two not sitting at a desk doing dittos all day long. We will be doing to learn anything we can do or get our hands on to learn. We will watch things like Little House on the Prairie. Talk about what it was like to live back then. Make foods from the show from scratch, which means making a menu, a shopping list, figure out our budget, buy the ingredients, price out how much it is per person, compare what it would have cost back then for the same foods, then come home follow the recipe, measuring and cook times. Then we can look up dates in history from the times the show was set in. Just from one show we have covered reading (recipes), writing (menus and shopping lists), history (researching what happened in history from the times the show was set in), speaking (from talking about the show), and math (both in the store and while cooking). This is just the tip of the iceberg in what and how they will be learning. We will read books and make maps of adventures we go on. We will build things and make things with our hands all the while with a lesson or ten covering the subjects mentioned above. I am not sure of all that will be implemented in their education but I do know they will learn and if one thing does not work for them we will try another and another like I have always done for my kids.
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I wish you all the best on this new adventure. School is a tough challenge for sure... It shouldn't be so hard to get then what they need.
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