Home is where you start from: A great first day back at homeschooling

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

A great first day back at homeschooling

I've been a little scarce lately with the blogging, I was trying really, really hard to be prepared for this week and our start back at homeschooling. I really have to say that this was one of my best days homeschooling, and probably our most satisfactory first day of school.

I'll try to post later more in detail about why this day was different, and what our day looked like; but I will sum it up for you as I did today -reviewing it with hubby. I think our day was so right on for a few reasons-

1) I ditched the Abeka , 2) I finally learned through trial and error what material works best with my teaching style and more important-with the way my brain works 3) using what I have learned I also realized that picking the simplest and easier way to teach something is spot-on for me (keeping in mind #2-workbooks being maybe easier don't necessarily fit...it depends) 4) plan ahead and conquer the dreaded and hated (for me) schedule...print your plan for the day, and follow it. 5) realize that I am easily distracted and that I finally had to focus on my job for the day as teacher and not try to do laundry, clean, relax, just go walk-about..etc. my day said- start at this time, and I followed through till done. 6) I don't have babies and toddlers to keep busy, all 4 children are now students.

we really had a good day. I will post more tomorrow, for any new homeschool moms out there surfing for looks at what a typical day homeschooling might look like.

I hope everyone else had a great back to school too!

Labels: homeschool

posted at 12:19 AM
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5 Comments:

At 9:15 AM, Lisa~ said...: Sounds like a wonderful first day!!

Love the beach on the last post.... We are about 2 1/2 hours form the beach.... and we dont have as nice of weather.... wish we did!

Lisawa~
At 8:57 PM, momto5minnies said...: So glad to hear that you had a great beginning to the school year.

This is a totally "trial and error" year for me. While there are aspects of ABEKA that I like, I think that I didn't need ALL that I purchased (mostly the language arts curricula).

I still have a 2 year old to contend with, but so far (crossing my fingers) she has been content just playing alongside us. The biggest challenge for us is the focus part. We all need to stay on top of our subjects and get to the less important stuff later.

We are all learning in my house!
At 4:42 PM, Joyful Days said...: Homeschool is a work in progress here. I am easily distracted too. Glad you are making it work for you, instead of you working to make you fit someone else's plan.

Blessings,

Julie
At 9:06 AM, Anonymous said...: Hi Jenny,
Glad your year is off to a good start...I am doing some of the same things with trying to be more organized, and only do schoolwork during school time, etc. Let's see how long we can last, :)
At 10:17 PM, Hen Jen said...: OC mom, Hi!!

so, how is the being organized going? You seem to me, to be much more organized than me...first impressions, huh?

we can cheer eachother on!! I am always tempted to do things early in the day before everything gets crowded..but no-more!! I am reformed! At least for this week...

hope you are having a great week!

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