Why we do what we do.
I so wish you could share in our day to day. I know when you made the comment about sending Jannel to a public school you were only talking about giving me a break but it made me want to share with you some of the blessings that we have by homeschooling. I told you I have been convicted of it several times. God has shown me why he has called me down this road.
One of my first was as I was watching a little girl and her mom walk to the bus stop at 7am out our front window. We had just finished a 30 minute or so of a worship session where both girls fell on their face in prayer. We then followed that up with the pledge of allegiance and the Lords prayer. How blessed we are that this is common place and we don't have to rush in the morning.
I had another reminded when we did the playcation week and found out that not only does she get along better with older children and adults but that being forced to have constant interaction with kids her own age for a whole day really stretches her thin. Even after when we would have friends over for the day, after a few hours I would have to put her off by herself for about 15 minutes or more just to regroup and mellow out. I remember going through that but I was the quiet one where she is much more vocal and physical about her expressions. Really, why put her through that if I don't need to. She will learn how to manage it, we all have, it just takes time and maturing.
I love that we are able to work through things at her own pace. Reading you know is her passion, she does great at it and is getting more and more practice every day. She has several times a day when she just sits back with a book of her own choosing and at her own time. Writing has been a struggle but we were able to work through it by lessening the amount that was required. She is getting much better at it and not quite as stubborn with it. Math, specifically addition and subtraction are her foe at the moment. So we do a little then move on to other areas such as time, money, fractions, geometry - all of which she excels in. She picked out a book about the giant panda for one of her reading assignments and now she has chosen to do a study on China. How much more kids enjoy an assignment when it is based on what they said they wanted to do.
We have to phase out worksheets that are to easy because she tries to make them harder than they are and we both get frustrated. (I remember doing that.) But it's so easy when I can tell she has got it down, we just skip it and move on to something a little more challenging. This fall one way or another I'm gonna try and get her to take a placement test and maybe get some curriculum. We'll see, I might do the online schooling but only if it allows the freedom of pace that we so cherish.
She would technically be starting 1st grade this fall. (First grade review is so easy for her that it's challenging, if that makes sense)
So that's where we're at. I honestly can't imagine doing it any other way. Besides, most of her shenanigans are done in the evening when she would be home anyways if she was doing the schooling so my only time with her would be when she was worn out, cranky and mischievous. Vs that being just a small part of our day together.
One of my first was as I was watching a little girl and her mom walk to the bus stop at 7am out our front window. We had just finished a 30 minute or so of a worship session where both girls fell on their face in prayer. We then followed that up with the pledge of allegiance and the Lords prayer. How blessed we are that this is common place and we don't have to rush in the morning.
I had another reminded when we did the playcation week and found out that not only does she get along better with older children and adults but that being forced to have constant interaction with kids her own age for a whole day really stretches her thin. Even after when we would have friends over for the day, after a few hours I would have to put her off by herself for about 15 minutes or more just to regroup and mellow out. I remember going through that but I was the quiet one where she is much more vocal and physical about her expressions. Really, why put her through that if I don't need to. She will learn how to manage it, we all have, it just takes time and maturing.
I love that we are able to work through things at her own pace. Reading you know is her passion, she does great at it and is getting more and more practice every day. She has several times a day when she just sits back with a book of her own choosing and at her own time. Writing has been a struggle but we were able to work through it by lessening the amount that was required. She is getting much better at it and not quite as stubborn with it. Math, specifically addition and subtraction are her foe at the moment. So we do a little then move on to other areas such as time, money, fractions, geometry - all of which she excels in. She picked out a book about the giant panda for one of her reading assignments and now she has chosen to do a study on China. How much more kids enjoy an assignment when it is based on what they said they wanted to do.
We have to phase out worksheets that are to easy because she tries to make them harder than they are and we both get frustrated. (I remember doing that.) But it's so easy when I can tell she has got it down, we just skip it and move on to something a little more challenging. This fall one way or another I'm gonna try and get her to take a placement test and maybe get some curriculum. We'll see, I might do the online schooling but only if it allows the freedom of pace that we so cherish.
She would technically be starting 1st grade this fall. (First grade review is so easy for her that it's challenging, if that makes sense)
So that's where we're at. I honestly can't imagine doing it any other way. Besides, most of her shenanigans are done in the evening when she would be home anyways if she was doing the schooling so my only time with her would be when she was worn out, cranky and mischievous. Vs that being just a small part of our day together.
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