• Sep. 3, 2009 - Getting ready for the new school year
After having a very busy summer of, guess what...VBS!.....I am pulling together my books and ideas for the new school year. I've already put together my IHIP, and submitted it. Now, I just have to convince the little guy that it is time to buckle down and get some serious schoolwork done! I have so many ideas, but have cut them down so that I might actually get most of them done. That is the trouble with loving learning...there is so much out there, and so much I want to teach her...and just so much time!
That is kind of what has happened with my home school materials room...everything I see has potential for teaching him something...and I just want to have it all, so that it is available when he is ready to learn it. I really have to cut down on what I have...can't find it all now anyways, because I don't have a good way to organize it all! Must use the library. Must use the library. Must use the library.
I can definitely see the attraction of unschooling. Teaching him about whatever interests him, as it occurs. We kind of do that anyway, just through conversation. There are things that he needs to learn, regardless of his current interest however....he really doesn't enjoy math yet, but that is the one thing that is mandatory, per my husband.
I have signed up at a website called Lesson Pathways, which gives you a guideline of things that you might want to teach your child for each year, and then gives you basically a unit study which should cover a week of time, with all the links and activities you could want to use for each study. I have gone through the planning stages of choosing what I want to cover, now I just have to implement week one. I'll try to post here after the first couple of weeks, to say how it is going. Looks interesting so far.
Home schooling.
Glad I'm doing it.
Glad he enjoys it.
Glad he's learning.
Life is good.
Praise God! |
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