I have been thinking for some time that I need a way to track what we are doing for school. As I write this, we are currently half way through the 2016-2017 school year with O- a 4th grader, L- a 1st Grader, and E (age 3) in preschool.
Thus far, this has been our most successful homeschool year. This blog will serve as a record for thoughts, curriculum choices, and a record of progress.
This is our 4th year homeschooling, a choice that came abruptly between O's Kindergarten and First Grade year. Three weeks before school started, she was pulled out and our journey began. I had thought about homeschooling extensively for roughly five years before I had children. I read books and looked at various curriculum. I was immediately drawn to a curriculum that was rich in literature. It made sense that this was the way I wanted to teach my children. I have always been drawn to books, especially the classics. I feel in today's society, the books our children are reading in the public education system are lacking. It is lacking detailed stories with rich descriptive words. The stories are all fun and meant as entertainment. There is nothing wrong with a book entertaining you, but how about a book that both entertains and broadens the mind. I also wanted no text books but rather living books.
Homeschool for me is also a place that I can teach my children my values and not worry about what is being taught at school whether through teachers with different beliefs or peers. This is a rough world we live in, and I want to be the one to teach them what is right and what is wrong.
Most wouldn't call me a rebellious person, honestly most would think quiet the opposite. I am a religious, traditional, and conservative person. I am very different from my family and grateful for that. I do consider myself rebellious in one way. Whatever the world or society in general says I should be doing or focusing on, I tend to do the opposite. While our country is focusing on a S.T.E.M. approach to education, I focus on the arts. There are so many beautiful and rich things in this world that are being ignored in the name of science. Please do not mistake me here, I find science to be important and we do study it. Especially for my daughters, who I hope will become mothers and raise their children in a loving home, I want them to enjoy the beautiful things of this world. These things include classical music (I do not listen to anything modern and honestly find it revolting. I've always been this way since a child.) and learning about composers and music history. Music is encouraged through piano, violin, and voice lessons. Art is appreciated through making art using different mediums and observing art. Foreign language is encouraged with an emphasis in Spanish currently. In the future I would love for them to learn German, French, and Latin.
We follow a Charlotte Mason methodology in our homeschool.
Thus far, this has been our most successful homeschool year. This blog will serve as a record for thoughts, curriculum choices, and a record of progress.
This is our 4th year homeschooling, a choice that came abruptly between O's Kindergarten and First Grade year. Three weeks before school started, she was pulled out and our journey began. I had thought about homeschooling extensively for roughly five years before I had children. I read books and looked at various curriculum. I was immediately drawn to a curriculum that was rich in literature. It made sense that this was the way I wanted to teach my children. I have always been drawn to books, especially the classics. I feel in today's society, the books our children are reading in the public education system are lacking. It is lacking detailed stories with rich descriptive words. The stories are all fun and meant as entertainment. There is nothing wrong with a book entertaining you, but how about a book that both entertains and broadens the mind. I also wanted no text books but rather living books.
Homeschool for me is also a place that I can teach my children my values and not worry about what is being taught at school whether through teachers with different beliefs or peers. This is a rough world we live in, and I want to be the one to teach them what is right and what is wrong.
Most wouldn't call me a rebellious person, honestly most would think quiet the opposite. I am a religious, traditional, and conservative person. I am very different from my family and grateful for that. I do consider myself rebellious in one way. Whatever the world or society in general says I should be doing or focusing on, I tend to do the opposite. While our country is focusing on a S.T.E.M. approach to education, I focus on the arts. There are so many beautiful and rich things in this world that are being ignored in the name of science. Please do not mistake me here, I find science to be important and we do study it. Especially for my daughters, who I hope will become mothers and raise their children in a loving home, I want them to enjoy the beautiful things of this world. These things include classical music (I do not listen to anything modern and honestly find it revolting. I've always been this way since a child.) and learning about composers and music history. Music is encouraged through piano, violin, and voice lessons. Art is appreciated through making art using different mediums and observing art. Foreign language is encouraged with an emphasis in Spanish currently. In the future I would love for them to learn German, French, and Latin.
We follow a Charlotte Mason methodology in our homeschool.
