One of my personal downfalls with homeschooling is the lack of a permanent schedule. I usually burn out on the very first day, and just have them do the required work in no particular order, with no particular deadline.
This term, after looking guiltily at the schedule again, I decided to revamp it with MY lifestyle. [...]
After I wrote up my schedule on Tuesday, hated it by Wednesday, and rewrote the entire thing on Thursday, I spent a little time thinking. It seemed to me that the reason I was having trouble scheduling was because I was basing my schedule off the schedule the kids were using at school before.
Not knowing [...]
Rachel’s Educational Philosophy in No Particular Order, 4/17/09
General Philosophy:
Children don’t know what God will call them to be when they grow up (no matter how sure today they are that they are going to be an astronaut), so they need exposure to as much as possible. No one likes subjects that they don’t like. No [...]
Okay, so I am officially starting homeschool with the kiddos this coming Monday (4/20/09). Yikes! Actually, I’m feeling pretty ok about it. Got the schedule all sorted out. See?
What, you can’t read that? Well, click on it and it will take you to the bigger version. For term study this time we are doing a [...]