my lastist idea is this i and mama can only do this me and mama can go to grammy and grammpis house.

Homeschool book review

I finished reading The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child: Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start a few weeks ago. Within the first couple of chapters, my excitement about homeschooling next year increased tenfold.

I loved the encouragement to look first at why I'm choosing to homeschool and then what my educational philosophy is.

Seeing the different categories of homeschooling types/philosophies laid out for me helped me decipher how I want to go about doing school. (My method will probably fall somewhere in the Flexible/Eclectic area with some online and some classical and some Charlotte Mason!)

There are plenty of reviews for the book on Amazon, so here are just some of my personal notes I took when reading it:

Why am I choosing homeschooling?
- cultivate/keep Nate's love of learning
- go at a faster pace
- his (minor) behavior issues at school are continuing to occur

"Learn everything you can and, as with parenting, let love take care of the unknowns."

My goal is not to outschool the schools! Let's laugh, play, and learn!

What is my educational philosophy?
End goals:
- someone who likes to learn, can learn/figure out on his own/searches it out
- productive, positive member of society, bold for Christ
- person of character, humble

Don't overreport! Know the law. California requirements: file private school form in October; keep general records.

Each week have a "this is what we're doing this week" schedule. Include appointments and outings.

I've already recommended this book to a friend planning on starting to homeschool next year. I really loved reading it and will probably read it again.

nate's ideas

my new idea is this i want to do this we can go to the science center

nate's ideas

my last idea is this i want to do this we can go to missouri

nate's ideas

my ideas are ,i want to do this i want to go on car rides together
and this i want to go to the spectrum

A new beginning

Here is where Nate and I can write our homeschooling ideas and adventures! We plan on officially starting 1st grade homeschool in the fall, so for now, we'll post about our ideas. Eventually, this will be where Nate can write notes about what he is learning and post pictures about what we're doing together.

Here are some of our ideas.

Math
Khan Academy
Make a quilt together
Possibly Singapore Math

Science
Nature walks in our neighborhood: identify all of the trees and birds we see

Reading
Selected works from the Charlotte Mason lists, including history
Weekly library visits

Bible
Begin with the Proverbs

Music
Instrument names, sounds
Field trip!
Learn to read music

Real life
Intentional grocery store trips--learn to use calculator