So our first week of Home School has made me love being a SAHM (stay at home mom) even more! The kids are learning and excited about each activity! We school for about 2 hours a day and that completes the work. A few days we were done in an hour and a half! I planned the days just as I did teaching public school! Amazing how much you can do 1:1 and with little or no interruptions. I absolutely love that I don't have to wake the kids up and take them somewhere. The are usually up by 8am and we get started around 8:30am. Today we started at 9:30 and were done by lunch. We do save Science for the afternoons. They love learning about animals and how God made them and gave them instincts (that is what this week was about).
Challenges so far: I started too close to the beginning of the Math curriculum (lesson 20) it is way too easy for Big Boy Child. I am going to skip up to about lesson 40 and see how that goes. I also have been pulling some workbook pages from a great book I have for things that I know he needs work on. I will also have to make sure to get Sweet Pea some extra things to do. She has been amazing! The first day had me a little concerned because she could barely trace circles or draw anything. But now she is getting the hang of it and she is gleaning so much from what Big Boy is learning! Yesterday she told her daddy that she was "helpless" outside. That was our Science vocabulary word!
Looking Ahead: Some things I need to change for the upcoming weeks are: the schedule. I need to put a break in between Reading and Writing. I also need to move Math to very first right after Bible. We do calendar each day and I believe it will flow more smoothly if we go ahead right into our Math lessons. I also want to make sure to take the kids to the big Tuesday Play Time at the Park with the HCHA ( Henderson County Homeschool Association)...last week they had 39 kids! Also, coming in the next few weeks is organized PE type lessons at the park! YAY!
Overall I am in love with Home Schooling thus far!
We have Sweet Pea's early afternoon ballet starting up in September, Cheerleading and Football start up next week (Upward at Biltmore Baptist Church) and we are excited for those to start again!! It is a busy and fun time of year!
Thats an awesome turnout. Really makes me wish we lived in Etowah again. I Love Rosman because its my hometown but its so far from so many of the homeschool and prek mom group activities. 39 kids is amazing! Is she doing the biblical based ballet? Amanda told me about it. We had planned on doing it but its a distance for us to that weekly. I will have to look into the cheerleading. I heard that Biltmore Baptist has a great homeschool group.
ReplyDeleteGood reports from your first week. I have got to find some time to work on my new blog.
Yay for homeschooling! I think your creativity is going to give me lots of ideas for homeschooling my kiddos!! =)
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