I am home schooled! It's SUPER fun!
Seriously thinking of Homeschooling my Daughter
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FWIW my opinion is that home schooling is the best way to ensure that your kids will actually learn something. The first step is to get involved with a group of other home school parents. There are a lot of resources out there and it is easily doable.
I wasn't homeschooled and didn't home school my kids but I wholeheartedly support it because our school systems are failing our kids. Sure they know how to take standardized tests but what are they learning?
I wasn't homeschooled and didn't home school my kids but I wholeheartedly support it because our school systems are failing our kids. Sure they know how to take standardized tests but what are they learning?
Wish you loved closer to us, (OC). My daughter is the only kindergartener in her school, she would love to have another girl in her class. Especially one who loves chickens as much as she does!
(Sounds like she's getting left out and fading into the background where she's at...)
(Sounds like she's getting left out and fading into the background where she's at...)
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First I want to thank everyone for all their kind words and support.
After much discussion and finding out more facts, we are going to homeschool our daughter. The lesson plans just seem to rushed. By the end of September, they are to learn the whole alphabet, writing it in upper and lower case. To count from 1-20 and write it and be able to count backwards from 10 to 0. To know all the shapes, (which is no problem for my daughter she knows what pentagons and parrallograms are). Learning how to count money, about feelings, and rules of the community. It just seems like a lot to cram into one month for such young children. She seems very confused doing her homework in the evenings and the homework has no consistancy to what they are learning.
She is very quiet when she comes home from school, usually the most I get out of her is "I had an accident today at school, I couldn't play outside" then she just quietly goes to her room to play. She was a very outgoing little girl. Usually after coming home from somewhere she would nonstop talk about what she did to anyone and everyone, wheather they wanted to listen or not. I have to really pull out of her what she did at school, usually with short little sentences, "we colored", "learned some letters" but can't remember which ones, or if I ask if she made any friends at school, she says "no I don't have friends but other kids play together". She is constantly leaving things at school, so far 2 coats, a luchbox, and the pants she had accidents in (teacher says she has an accident, she comes home in different pants but dirty pants don't come home
, why would they want them at school!)
We have looked into a few curriculums and have a few we are deciding on now, we have also talked to my daughter about her joining some local groups, she is really excited about joining 4H, she isn't sure which club yet so we get to go to a few different ones til she decides. We have also been talking about trying out the YMCA too, they have alot of extracurricular (sp?) activities for her to enjoy. We also have a family friend that also homeschools her daughters which are the same age as mine, so we have been talking about doing some fieldtrips together. We want our daughter to have a very well rounded education and have fun doing it too. I have some experience with teaching, between my grandmother teaching and I used to help out in her classroom as a kid. I also did three seperate internships in highschool, one was helping out at the computer lab, teaching kids how to use the computers and the programs. The other was helping out for the full year with a third grade class. I helped prepare the lesson plans, and actually had to make up a few myself and teach. I also would take students aside and help them with their weak subjects. And for my last internship I helped out in the special education classroom. I had the joy of helping those students learn the most simple tasks but it would make their day just learning how to tie their shoe or button a coat. I also had the pleasure of teaching them art, my strongest and most passionate subject. I will never forget one boy who I taught that he could still paint and enjoy it even though he was blind. I believe all these experences were preparing me for now with my own daughter. And now I cannot wait to start teaching her
After much discussion and finding out more facts, we are going to homeschool our daughter. The lesson plans just seem to rushed. By the end of September, they are to learn the whole alphabet, writing it in upper and lower case. To count from 1-20 and write it and be able to count backwards from 10 to 0. To know all the shapes, (which is no problem for my daughter she knows what pentagons and parrallograms are). Learning how to count money, about feelings, and rules of the community. It just seems like a lot to cram into one month for such young children. She seems very confused doing her homework in the evenings and the homework has no consistancy to what they are learning.
She is very quiet when she comes home from school, usually the most I get out of her is "I had an accident today at school, I couldn't play outside" then she just quietly goes to her room to play. She was a very outgoing little girl. Usually after coming home from somewhere she would nonstop talk about what she did to anyone and everyone, wheather they wanted to listen or not. I have to really pull out of her what she did at school, usually with short little sentences, "we colored", "learned some letters" but can't remember which ones, or if I ask if she made any friends at school, she says "no I don't have friends but other kids play together". She is constantly leaving things at school, so far 2 coats, a luchbox, and the pants she had accidents in (teacher says she has an accident, she comes home in different pants but dirty pants don't come home
We have looked into a few curriculums and have a few we are deciding on now, we have also talked to my daughter about her joining some local groups, she is really excited about joining 4H, she isn't sure which club yet so we get to go to a few different ones til she decides. We have also been talking about trying out the YMCA too, they have alot of extracurricular (sp?) activities for her to enjoy. We also have a family friend that also homeschools her daughters which are the same age as mine, so we have been talking about doing some fieldtrips together. We want our daughter to have a very well rounded education and have fun doing it too. I have some experience with teaching, between my grandmother teaching and I used to help out in her classroom as a kid. I also did three seperate internships in highschool, one was helping out at the computer lab, teaching kids how to use the computers and the programs. The other was helping out for the full year with a third grade class. I helped prepare the lesson plans, and actually had to make up a few myself and teach. I also would take students aside and help them with their weak subjects. And for my last internship I helped out in the special education classroom. I had the joy of helping those students learn the most simple tasks but it would make their day just learning how to tie their shoe or button a coat. I also had the pleasure of teaching them art, my strongest and most passionate subject. I will never forget one boy who I taught that he could still paint and enjoy it even though he was blind. I believe all these experences were preparing me for now with my own daughter. And now I cannot wait to start teaching her
I'm so sorry that your daughter has had such a miserable start in kindergarten! I would certainly be worried that a cheerful, outgoing child has become sad and silent, almost overnight. That doesn't happen for no reason. Good luck!
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Well good luck to you then OP!
It sounds as if you're excited about the task at hand. May you both enjoy it and find many successes. And it sounds like you'll have many resources right here with other BYC homeschoolers.
I hope you enjoy homeschooling.
I have to admit that I'm a little disappointed in you not following through with the school to know what exactly is going on and what the policies are. To my mind, a
instead of a real answer about "accidents" is a bit of a cop out. JMHO
You originally posted on a Friday, so your child has had at most 3 days of school since the last time you posted. I would find out what was going on simply for peace of mind, and clarification. A child should not be kept in from recess because of an accident. I really feel you have not investigated the situation nearly enough.
I have to admit that I'm a little disappointed in you not following through with the school to know what exactly is going on and what the policies are. To my mind, a
You originally posted on a Friday, so your child has had at most 3 days of school since the last time you posted. I would find out what was going on simply for peace of mind, and clarification. A child should not be kept in from recess because of an accident. I really feel you have not investigated the situation nearly enough.
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Best wishes for you and your dd. Everything does seem a bit rushed these day.I remember the stress I was placed under to make sure the kids learned what they were *expected* to learn.Now I do not push(teachers still do),and guess what....they learned it anyway.
When my kids were younger they liked a lot of PC learning games.I have noticed our local school has the same games,which the kids get to play if they are done with their other work.
When I dealt with the school I found the more I pushed the less answers I got.In the end I was being told *all was well* or *your child is happy at school*. It was a waste of time! If they denied a problem long enough it became true to them.
When my kids were younger they liked a lot of PC learning games.I have noticed our local school has the same games,which the kids get to play if they are done with their other work.
When I dealt with the school I found the more I pushed the less answers I got.In the end I was being told *all was well* or *your child is happy at school*. It was a waste of time! If they denied a problem long enough it became true to them.
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