Nov. 2, 2009 - Working & Homeschooling #1
~~~ Working and Homeschooling ~~~
Several people have stopped by my blog and asked, "How do you manage to work and still homeschool?" I decided to start a category, dedicated just to that topic.
For starters, I have an "only." She is in 8th grade, so at this point, she doesn't really need me as a "teacher." Instead, she needs me as a facilitator.
Since dd is in 8th grade, we are trying to do as many subjects as possible this year that can count toward her high school transcript. With also facing the emotional highs of lows of puberty, I also knew that it was unwise to expect her to do a full course load during the school year. To alleviate the chances of her "melting down," she knew she would have to complete some subjects over the summer months.
She completed her Home Ec course over the summer. Shortly after school officially started this fall, she finished up the A Beka high school health course. She is nearly done with her World Geography. We used Challenging Geography as well as the game Where in the World? to complete this course. She has done really well learning the countries of the world and she enjoys it, so it was a good fit. I am "quizzing" her on the countries, and that is what will earn her course credit. I will likely have her pick a country on which to write an essay. So there are three courses, nearly done. She should finish up the first semester of her language arts course around Thanksgiving. (For more info on what types of courses we are using for high school, read the "High School" category.)
We are not unschoolers, so most of our curriculum is already laid out for us, which is a huge help since I started working. The only subject I really need to plan ahead is her language arts. We are using an old version of Easy Grammar and Easy Writing. Over the weekend, I will pull out the next week's assignments and put them in a folder for her.
She knows that any assignments that stump her can be set aside until I get home in the evening. DH has been helping out some. On evenings when I work later hours, he will grade her work. He has also been helping her with her spelling.
It isn't taking her all that long to complete her assignments. If she gets out of bed when she is supposed to, she can usually have most of it done before lunch time, or shortly thereafter. Right now, she is doing LA, Pre-algebra, vocabulary, and science. She still chooses to work on her geography, but only does so a couple of times a week.
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Nov. 5, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by solidrock
I can see how just having one would make it easier to work and hs. We are out of the house with food pantry work.The gals help one another, I plan ahead a lot, and I account for monthly hormone meltdowns. Its not realistic to push them when its that time! No one wins!
So my big question for you is how or what does your dd do for fun? Art, fieldtrips, hobbie? Time with friends? How do you work all of that in and work too? I only ask because we face me going back to work too.
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