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Looking at positives and negative vs public school. We're having major second thoughts on sending our soon to be kindergartener to LPS. Have a soon entering 8th grade in LPS. Wife has researched the hell out of it and prepared herself.
Thoughts?
Year 1 update.
We, by we, I mean maily my wife decided to and I followed along with homeschool our 6-year old. At first, I was extremely relunctant thinking it would be a massive headache and failure. In the end, it was a great decision for our family. We did the Classical Conversations co-op.
Positives.
- Learn at his own pace. In the intitial months this was a little bit of a struggle because of distractions around the house. Now he's built into his daily routine and has blown through the Kindergarten reading and math, and nearly 2 months into 1st grade level reading.
- Allowed him explore his interest more and do more hands on everyday life learning. With the weather least week, he's really into learning about how thunderstorms develop and about hail, wind, and tornados associated with them. He's wanted to learn about WWII, Civil War, and various other history subjects. That really helped with engagement.
- Homeschool isn't just about the student, it's about family. All holiday events, birthdays, gatherings, play dates are geared to the whole family not just just one member.
- This is probably my most favorite part - I get a lot of time with him in the afternoon. Pretty much everyday for the last 2 weeks we've played catch with football or baseball for about 10-15 minutes. Doesn't have to be much, but we get to something several times per week that couldn't do if he was in school.
- I thought it would impact him socially, but we're finding out the opposite. Anytime we're out of the house he's organically trying to socialize and play with other kids. Through sports we're still able to build relationships with kids his age and public school he'd be at.
- No learned negative behaviors. My nephew and one of my good friend's son go to the same elementary school. We're not around either at the same time, but both boys behave the same, talk back the same, same bad behaviors, same name-calling. My sister in law mentioned this to us as well that she noticed his behaviors changing to match his classmates.
- Our 4-year learns along. He might not get it all down, but he's picking up math and history extremely well. He can tell you how to calculate the area of a square, triange, circle, and a few other shapes. He knows the basic major event of history starting BC. Count by 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 10s.
Negatives.
- We don't plan on homeschooling him forever, but we don't know how to assimilate him into school. With the learn at his own pace and freedom to learn things that interest him, lots of outside play time and discovery, it's going to be hard.
- It can be pretty stressful. I don't do much for school work, wife does that all, but it can be stressful on the bad days.
- No set routine for the day.
- Lots of dishes for me. Since they eat breakfast and lunch at home and my portion is the dishes, I have a shit-ton of dished each day to do.
Thoughts?
Year 1 update.
We, by we, I mean maily my wife decided to and I followed along with homeschool our 6-year old. At first, I was extremely relunctant thinking it would be a massive headache and failure. In the end, it was a great decision for our family. We did the Classical Conversations co-op.
Positives.
- Learn at his own pace. In the intitial months this was a little bit of a struggle because of distractions around the house. Now he's built into his daily routine and has blown through the Kindergarten reading and math, and nearly 2 months into 1st grade level reading.
- Allowed him explore his interest more and do more hands on everyday life learning. With the weather least week, he's really into learning about how thunderstorms develop and about hail, wind, and tornados associated with them. He's wanted to learn about WWII, Civil War, and various other history subjects. That really helped with engagement.
- Homeschool isn't just about the student, it's about family. All holiday events, birthdays, gatherings, play dates are geared to the whole family not just just one member.
- This is probably my most favorite part - I get a lot of time with him in the afternoon. Pretty much everyday for the last 2 weeks we've played catch with football or baseball for about 10-15 minutes. Doesn't have to be much, but we get to something several times per week that couldn't do if he was in school.
- I thought it would impact him socially, but we're finding out the opposite. Anytime we're out of the house he's organically trying to socialize and play with other kids. Through sports we're still able to build relationships with kids his age and public school he'd be at.
- No learned negative behaviors. My nephew and one of my good friend's son go to the same elementary school. We're not around either at the same time, but both boys behave the same, talk back the same, same bad behaviors, same name-calling. My sister in law mentioned this to us as well that she noticed his behaviors changing to match his classmates.
- Our 4-year learns along. He might not get it all down, but he's picking up math and history extremely well. He can tell you how to calculate the area of a square, triange, circle, and a few other shapes. He knows the basic major event of history starting BC. Count by 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 10s.
Negatives.
- We don't plan on homeschooling him forever, but we don't know how to assimilate him into school. With the learn at his own pace and freedom to learn things that interest him, lots of outside play time and discovery, it's going to be hard.
- It can be pretty stressful. I don't do much for school work, wife does that all, but it can be stressful on the bad days.
- No set routine for the day.
- Lots of dishes for me. Since they eat breakfast and lunch at home and my portion is the dishes, I have a shit-ton of dished each day to do.
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