May. 30, 2008
Changing a few things...
Posted in Our Home Schooling Journey
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PA = Principle Approach Wow...my blog is still here. I've been wondering if they would just delete it since I haven't posted in here since we began our schooling for K this year in August....well I haven't posted much about our home school anyway... I guess an explanation is in order. I've been trying to reconcile a lot of things in the PA and have come a long way, but still feel somethings fit and some things don't. In our home school we don't really ever leave God out so I will continue to allude to the Bible while we teach and keep learning myself while I teach the littles. I don't teach the principles like they have them laid out although we're always referring to biblical principles while we learn. I also don't do the studies of the words in a certain topic to glean a leading idea. I don't direct the children's thoughts in that way although I do direct them to think about how someone who loves Jesus would act, talk, think, etc. So, I guess I can't call our school PA anymore. I wonder how many qf families are also PA .... Anywhoo, I was thinking of doing their graduation ceremony with the other children in the neighborhood, but I don't want to seem like I'm bragging on them. I don't know.... I'm still undecided. It wouldn't be until July since I just had the baby and I'm still trying to finish up our year. We lost a week when Nana came to visit and two more weeks as they visited Grandma when the baby was born. I'm determined to be legal (180 days) this year. As of today we only have 10 more days left! That's two more weeks! Yeah! Since we're this close to finishing I went shopping for next year. I missed our convention this year since it was so close to my due date I didn't go. I've been looking for a world history program that's young earth minded and biblically based. I finally decided on Diana Waring. I was looking at TOS store and they said the time line figures by Homeschool in the Woods went well with her stuff so I checked up on it and like it! She recently teamed up with AiG to make it better. I bought the elementary activity book of the first series and plan to buy the other books for two more years then I'll move up to the regular student workbook. Along with that I also bought Part 1 of her CD series and Ruth Beechick's history book for myself so I can learn history the right way (looking at it through the eyes of the bible). Next I'll buy another Barry Stebbing program and Apoogia's Astronomy program. I also need to up our Right Start book a level....there may be more to get, but that's all I remember for now. I also bought my son the amusement park gears package. I've been looking foward to getting that for him for a long time. I do hope he likes it. I'll play with him with it. He's s very deep thinker and everyone can see that he'll be an inventor of some kind. I also notice he likes taking things apart. I don't know if there are any things on the market like that for children. So far I'm just letting him do certain things around the house, but I'm at a loss as to how exactly to channel that creativity of his. We don't have many things around here that need to be taken apart....hmmm...I'll be praying and contemplating that. So, for our first year we did kinda good. I still rely heavily on computer games to teach and stuff like that. We notebook a lot and I'm preparing them to write a whole lot more and in cursive for my oldest next year. I did however get really lazy on writing down things. I had lesson plans kinda written out, but realized we don't always follow it and so I reverted to just writing down what we did. Then I got lazy with that too. I really don't like writing lesson plans because I never know where we'll go. I can write a loose plan or just follow the syllabus of the program we have. I do like writing down what worked and what all we did on a particular day so I'll keep doing that... So, first grade here we come! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blessings, Violet Blogging here, there and everywhere (incuding here). You've been reading a Schooldaze post. |
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