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Well, I signed up here quite a while ago, and just never got my thoughts together to start blogging. I have started quite a few blogs, but have been unable to keep any one going consistently. So here's to a fresh start.
I would like to dust off my keyboard, sort through some thinking and learning and keep a record of it here. This seems like a nice place to call "home".
A little about me:
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My name is Kim and I'm a 35 year old wife and mother to one terrific preschooler.
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Before becoming a mother, I taught young children (mostly kindergarten through third grade age) in a public school system in for ten years.
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A good portion of my teaching experience was non-traditional in that I taught in multi-age classrooms for five of those years. (kindergarten, first and second grade students combined)
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My husband and I decided that we would definitely homeschool our daughter in the recent past, though we started talking about it around 2 years ago.
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Since that decision, I have been furiously searching out information and learning all I can about various homeschool philosophies, methods and curricula.
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I never knew there was so much "out there" for homeschool educators!
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I think that I am a born teacher, so to speak (and not necessarily in the classroom sense of the word)......and I never would have guessed that the prospect of educating a child of my own from home would leave me with doubts and questions as much as it has.
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I have come to realize that I will never *know* enough to feel fully prepared for this calling------and, that is okay.
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I am at a point where I think *I* need a little more structure and direction as to how we spend our days-----and I think I have found a path to follow for now.
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I am so thankful for those that have gone before me in this endeavor; and for all that is so freely shared in the online.
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Most of all I am thankful for the opportunity and desire to be home with our daughter as we purpose to teach her about this wonderful world and the Master of it all.
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