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| BlueRoseMama |
Posted - Sep 16 2007 : 04:47:28 AM
I was wondering if you all had tips on how to get a good schedule down with your homeschooler. Right now, we get up around 7:30 (When I am not up at 4am) and Logan and I take a shower, we get Alex off to school, and we do a riddler and then our work while Logan is eating breakfast. But we are usually done by 9 or 9:30am. We have Date and Calander, Writing, Math Concepts, Amzes, Mind Benders, and then Ryming Words. Right now we are studing Dinosaurs so we do something related to that... and we are still done by 10.
On Friday we went and picked apples, went to the farm and saw all the new baby ducks, and we were home in time to take a nice nap before Alex got home from school.
Is this normal? We are in week 3.
Val
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| garliclady |
Posted - Sep 18 2007 : 4:52:24 PM
Yesterday was a day I had to go to the big city 40 miles away to do errands . I knew we would never get home in time to "do school"
For my daughter 3 it was blue day and we fonud people that were wearing blue and blue objects thru each store. My son is still working on counting and beginning adding so we counted the sidewalk blocks from the hardware store to Target and on the way back practiced adding On the 40 mile trip there we all sang the abc song and a counting song played number games and Found rhyming words with the numbers to 20. On the way home they watched Leap pad dvd on numbers .
By the time we got home it was almost 6:00 but we had school all day (sort of...) My son is finally getting what home school is all about and likes it. Several times yesterday folks stopped and commented about my son being awful big not to be in school(he is almost 6) he said proudly I am in school I am in Homeschool.
This time of year is one of the busiest on our farm so finding bits of time to meet the objectives for the week is necessary.
As a former teacher I know how little time is actually spent on the real teaching and then facor in that some kids have to sit and wait for the teacher to answer their question or listen to something they they already have mastered because someone else still hasn't -means that if we spend and hour or 2 a day teaching we actually have had more teaching time than they can get at school. That is why the teachers in schools have to send so much work home for homework
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Sep 18 2007 : 4:18:16 PM
Val, even going to the library and grocery store is "learning!".
I still remember shopping with my uncle (a bioengineer) and he used to teach me things even at your child's age.
He would teach me to reach towards the back of the shelf or the bottom package of meat, cause it was fresher. (cause that's the way they stock the store). He would teach me that even though some things may seem cheaper per a unit if you bought more, that if it was something you would not use it all and would throw half of it away it wasn't a savings. He taught me how to check the unit price and not just the price of product, so that way you know what your best deal was.
Even on the car rides to these places, we would drive by a wind mill or what ever was on the way and he would tell me what it was and what it did and how it worked!
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| BlueRoseMama |
Posted - Sep 18 2007 : 3:36:29 PM
Ok... good. She is really getting somewhere... we start right after breakfast, she does her Mindbenders and Mazes, then she moves on to the Date, Writing (we are working on writing letters (as in "Dear Grandma," not the ABC's), Rhyming Words, Critical Thinking, Simple Addition, and then she does her art time (Which this morning she cut out dinosaurs she had colored and we made a back drop for them out of a large peice of constuction paper and she glued them on there after we added a volcano and rain... becauce all prehistoric times had volcanos right? With FIRE! Lots of FIRE! lol!) And we were still done by 10:20 in the morning and went shopping and then to the library before lunch. So I guess that is the way of it... she may get into harder stuff later, but for what she is doing now? It takes about 2 hours.... even with Art time. Crazy. :)
Just so ya know... Cyan is a girl. ;) The boys are my bookends. And Cyan rhymes with Ryan with an S sound.
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| ArmyWifey |
Posted - Sep 18 2007 : 2:40:19 PM
Yes that's totally normal! Just remember/remind yourself that even when he's not doing the "academic" part he's still learning!
I have two high schoolers, a junior higher and one in elementary but we are still usually done by 1pm! We tend to start around 9:00 or 9:30 in the morning after breakfast and chores - but if we don't start til after lunch we don't!
Blessings!
Holly
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| corporatefarmgirl |
Posted - Sep 16 2007 : 5:13:12 PM
Your doing great. Remember the great thing about homeshooling is that it isn't all about books - Math can be taught through cooking, counting items outside, Critcal thinking- read a book and talk about it, etc. Growing gardens ( containers work great) is a great science lesson.
With our kids we were usually done by noon( there was a break)with the work books. The rest were "Life Lessons".
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Sep 16 2007 : 06:30:38 AM
Sounds like you are doing fine. We taught all 3 of ours at home and were usually finished by noon most days and we started school at 8 o'clock. Besides there is a ton of stuff that we did when the book stuff was finished so really when I wrote up all the hours we always had way more than our state required.
Isn't it fun teaching them and seeing their reaction when they learn something new. I always loved that! I learned plenty new myself too.
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Sep 16 2007 : 05:34:47 AM
I haven't homeschooled in a long time. But, from what I get from others, home schooling goes much faster then public school.
1. you only have one student to teach! Not 20 or more! You are more then likely not having to deal with 2 or more pain in the tush kids. Your child is used to behaving with you etc.
2. A lot of work is not done at school any more, it seems to mainly be sent home for home work. So really all you have to do with home schooling is the amount of "home" work they send home with the kids any way.
So to me, sounds normal so far. Remember there's more to learning then what's in the text books/work books. Seems like he is learning a whole lot, at the farm with ducks, and apples, etc. |
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