Homeschool~ Between years testing, who else has to test their kids?

[PotterWatch]

Well, I didn't mean to kill all the homeschool spirit.

Another thread bites the dust...

 

[saddina]

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I want to gently suggest that you let her teachers know ASAP that she can read. We went ahead and sent our Erik to the preschool program at the college both hubby & I attended. They had no idea what to do with the boy, and he got in trouble for reading a book. He was just so far ahead of the other kids his age it didn't work, and the school wouldn't accomidate him. A year later Erik placed into 2nd grade (assessment testing) a week after his 5th birthday. Public school would be a waste of his time, so we've put him in the same charter school we teach at.

 

[Eggs4Sale]

 

[Ferngully]

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Naaahh you didn't kill it.

Question for all the fellow educators: How many school year round?

 

[saddina]

In summer we do "light days" usually some odds and ends I find but can't tuck in the regular schedule. This summer we're doing in depth world geography, learning how to write a country report.

 

[Eggs4Sale]

We go year-round, but we have definitely slowed down this summer. We're doing violin and lots of reading still, but we've been lounging a lot for 2 weeks. I haven't even written any assignments on the board since before Boy Scout camp! We'll start back up Aug. 1st, though.

 

[Ferngully]

We school year round whether the kids know it or not. They youngest complained when I mentioned doing it as she felt that she should have the summer off like other kids (we always read during the summer in public school, and my parents got us workbooks to work in for other subjects as well). So I got creative so she wouldn't be upset, and still learn new things without it appearing to be "school"

DD loves the games attached to time4learning and can only go online for school, so if she wants to play, she has to do an hour of schoolwork. She has been doing self work and I am pleased as she is my SN child. This has not always been the case with her, being a self starter and worker. Proud mum. We are also going to start having her read aloud a book and video tape it. Then send the book onto her young cousin and post the video. I will build a backdrop for her and she helped to name her "show". She does not like to read and this has motivated her in a different direction that she isn't doing it as "school work".

DS gets "look something up for me, or research something for me". I told him to keep me from buying the mandarin duck pair, so on the way home with them

(little sneaker convinced me to do it instead) I told him he would need to do all the research on them from A to Z ( I already had shhh). He will also be the one doing the planning of their enclosure and building it. Well, he did do the research and has started a journal on his own noting their behaviors as well. His mini-bike broke down he went online to research and diagnose the problem and how to fix it. I am going to have him start an excel spreadsheet for our egg layers noting temp, humidity, weather conditions, number of eggs. He had already started one himself on size and weight of eggs.

I find ways to incorporate math and science into gardening, building and caring for the chickens. I give them the instructions and oversee the work and assist but really let them work it out.

Oldest DS moves to Germany tomorrow(today) possibly for forever. I will have DD work out the map and miles and info about the country. This move will be really hard on her as they are so close, so trying to make it not seem so far.

Sneak their education in on them. They don't even know what I have done, lol. Maybe this will give some others some ideas on getting a little extra in without it appearing like they are doing school work. We will start the "formal" schooling the end of August the same time as the public school students. After we do our school shopping, make our own school shirts, and school ID cards for them to carry in their wallets.

I so have got to quit trying to type in the dark ugh.

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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Hey, this is EXACTLY what we've been doing!!!

Seriously, though, that's what I've always done with my kids. They don't even know they're doing homework most of the time. I've tried to explain this to inquiring minds, but I didn't come across as well as you just did. Mostly, my short-term frazzled memory goes "Uhhhhhh, we, uhhh" and they've already got that look that says "I knew it!" I've even had people try to quiz my son with math, usually multiplication. Or they ask him what curriculum he's studying, and he can't answer that because we don't have one curriculum, so they react as if he said he plays Nintendo all day.

 

[Ferngully]

Yep.... DD has gone so far as to tell people (doctors and therapists) we don't do school work....

Just makes you want to

Then I can't just blurt out what I am doing because then the kids will catch on

Mine get stumped when people ask them what grade they are in, well...... in what subject

 

[Eggs4Sale]

I remember when I had suffered from a severe lack of brain, I took my son to a private school to enroll him for the fourth grade. When the principal found out he was homeschooled, she asked what curriculum he was doing. "Uhhhhhh, well, uhhh, we don't really HAVE a set curriculum. We just really push the things he's interested in." I believe I also told her he was reading Calvin and Hobbes before 1st grade, which was probably not a good idea. She looked at me like I had just vomited on my son. So she asks him "What's 3 times 7?" He stares at the ceiling, doing the math in his head, and I think the blood in my body stopped moving. When he finally said "21", I almost passed out. She accepted his application. He was then on the honor roll for all four semesters. I stopped doubting myself. I got a spine and pulled him out.