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I am Ness ... I have been married to my Hubby for 10 years this year and we have 5 gorgeous children aged 8, 7, 5, 4 & 2. That will be all for us I am afraid but they certainly keep us busy and laughing ! I hope this blog to be one .. my diary of what goes on here ... but also full of photos and the funny things kids do and say. I am an avid scrapper and cross stitcher and love to read to my kids ... we try new things and I am just about to start a new teaching method that I am quite excited about!
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I need to re look at how we do things around here ... it is kinda chaotic ... I had the kids assessed at a major tutoring school (that I found out we could in no way afford!) and found out that if they were at school that they would be in the lower half of the class were they at 'normal' school ... my husband is going mental ... he is off work due to injury and ops and is always on my and the kids back to be 'schooling' I think we have to operate more like a class ... this 'natural' learning that I keep trying is just my kids playing on a trampoline !!
I don't think they are prepped at all for any kind of tests .. I don't know how to make them smarter - we cover the work but they are not retaining ... I wish I could get some help from somewhere. I am due to report to the BOS at the end of the year to register Brady and reregister the two big kids. I don't want them to be sent back to school but I don't want the kids to be dissadvantaged just because I want them home with me either !
I am a very stressed person right now - I don't know what to do and I am thinking that even if I did I am not doing it right ...
I am goping to try to write up a schedule tonight .. a different one. As much as I liked the Charlotte Mason method - it meant a lot of sitting and reading for me and reading at 4 different levels - I have to find something that doesn't take all day and that can be accomodated to suit all of the kids.
Off to search and hopefully find an answer....
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Posted: 2:54 PM, Sep. 2, 2008 |
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I am a late start advocate so when I see that your oldest is 8 I can't imagine what the problem is. My oldest didn't even learn how to read until that age. It is perfectly natural, depending on the child.
I know, though, that you are under the gun from your hubbie. He is worried because he was probably schooled traditionally and hasn't bothered to read up on the truth about education. I would direct him to read things written by Dorothy and Raymond Moore & by the Bluedorn family.
If you have the money, and you want to show your hubby some fast success, I would try Spell to Write and Read & Saxon Math. These two curriculum seem to work wonders. We use SWR but we don't do as many words/week as they say. We do a few other things differently, but it does work once, like most spelling books, you find how it works best for your child.
Anyway, I've written a whole blog entry in your comment section. I really just wanted to encourage you and let you know that your kids will be able to "catch up" and will eventually probably exceed their public school peers. Remember that only about 100 years ago kids didn't even start formal schooling until they were 8.
JM
Who loves unschooling but is too disorganized to do it. :-D
PS why do you need to read to four different levels? Aren't some of your kids too young to "have to" do school?
Edited by homeschoolshelter on Sep. 2, 2008 at 12:30 AM |
Posted by homeschoolshelter at 3:37 PM, Sep. 2, 2008 |
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