Years First
Posted in Uncategorized on 04/05/2008 01:09 am by admin
Years First
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It's May now. The time of year we sit back and reflect on how our homeschooling year went. What did my kids learn? What curriculum would we use again? What would we not use? What system worked the best? What time of the day is best for our learning? What are our learning and teaching styles? What field trips did we enjoy? What did we avoid from not being in a public school?
I've been giving our homeschooling year a lot of thought this week, evaluating our first year as homeschoolers. Actually, if you would have asked me yesterday, I would have said, "I failed!" I think the more time we spend thinking about what the kids would be doing in public school, the more likely we are to think that we've missed something or that we're not on the right track, or that we've failed.
Ultimately, it's really not a big deal that we didn't do a study on 'Community'. We went to the church. We went to the Town Hall. We went to the grocery store and to the toboggan hill. We talked to people in those places, ran around, got a car wash at a youth fundraiser etc... We lived it. We didn't study it.
I'm still not 100% sure of what my teaching style is. I do hate skipping lessons, but am aware when something has become too easy for my child. I do love to go out and experience learning. Field trips are exciting! One really neat place we went was to a honey farm. It was perfect timing as the kids were able to find out lots about bees and spin out some honey -- and taste it in their warehouse. Berry picking at the beginning of our year was also great. It's so much more interesting to touch, feel and see a particular plant -- in order to identify it, rather that seeing it in a book.
I figured out that the days where I have too much other work to do, or if I'm anxious about something else...those would work well as our P.A. Days. Used about once a month or so, these were handy if I just wasn't going to be patient with the kids. My goal is to smile at them everyday.
Regarding curriculum, I found some things like Saxon Math a great fit for my son but not for my daughter. There again, I needed to give myself permission to not follow the entire meeting and lesson to a tee. Flexibility. I heard Jump Math was good. We could even finish our year with that.
In regards to some of our subjects, we still have a bunch of lessons to go through. For Grammar, we still have about 100 lessons for my son and similar for my daughter's Religion (for lack of a better word). That kind of thing could stress me out if I let it. I have to relax and realize that if he doesn't practice sentence combining 200 times this year, he'll still be okay. And we'll get through all the Bible stories, sooner or later.
Most importantly, I need to think about -- not so much what we did or didn't do, but to remember what they are not learning or doing, not being at a public school.
They are not learning that the world is millions of years old. They are not learning about the big bang. Their faith is not being eroded. It's being built up. They are not learning about bats or blood-sucking draculas that drink blood. (Last year, in public school my son worked with an older child on a story and that's what it was about.) They are not being exposed to ideas, thoughts, concepts, books or music that are not appropriate for a child of God. (Last year, my daughter came off the school bus singing lyrics to explicit songs from a friend's ipod. Kindergarten.) My son is not being bullied this year. There are no witch or Harry Potter books coming home from the library. Need I go on?
Thank you, Lord for the homeschooling option! Even if our bus has only three wheels sometimes, at least we're heading in the right direction!
Julie Chandler is a homeschooling mom in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is also a speaker and author. Her most recent book is called Orphans and the Fatherless: Making Ourselves Known.
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