On the weekends, DO NOT look at my dining room table. I'm preparing for next week! And that Huggies box? It's full of papers my children have completed since last November when the Elf began homeschooling. What's funny is that I cull a lot of the 'useless' ones out before saving them. At this rate in three years, I will have an entire closet-ful of papers.26 October 2007
Teacher Organization Day
On the weekends, DO NOT look at my dining room table. I'm preparing for next week! And that Huggies box? It's full of papers my children have completed since last November when the Elf began homeschooling. What's funny is that I cull a lot of the 'useless' ones out before saving them. At this rate in three years, I will have an entire closet-ful of papers.
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Oh... I wish I could homeschool. I honestly don't know how I would. Maybe I can but I'm just scared. I have 5 kids ages 1 month, 2, 4, 6, and 7. I had 5 kids within 7 years and all are pretty hyper. I love them to death but I feel like they are all so little at the same time, I don't know how I'd homeschool. The truth is, I've always wanted to but I'm just not sure how.
ReplyDeleteVirginia, I'd encourage you to go ahead and look at www.hslda.org and see what is REQUIRED in your state to homeschool (the map on the right on the website!). Then you'll know what you would HAVE to do, and see if you're up to that. Likely only the seven-year-old has to be taught at all. I *could* technically get away with doing nothing with Emperor until he turns seven. Which is nice, but he's ready now.
ReplyDeleteYou may consider only homeschooling one child till you get the hang of it. Maybe pick Chaz only, or one without special needs that would be more flexible for YOU.
Honestly, other homeschoolers will kill me for saying this, but with autism I'd have preferred to have kept Elf in public school so he could learn things like what people say versus what they really mean. Or how to interact with the lunch lady. Or what to do when you don't understand what someone else wants from you. I just see how extremely backward my children are and while I try to work on it, it makes me very sad. Plus there ARE therapies the school does for "free" for your child if it's in the IEP.
If you have a good IEP and a good teacher I'd be afraid to mess with that at this point because once you pull the child you may not get everything back as you want it if you want to re-enroll.
Of course, if you know you're not going to want to send him back at all that won't be a factor LOL.
Have you considered all the homework and conferences and extracurriculars your kids do at school, too? That is a real time-eater that at least for my younger kids I don't have to do any more. But again, they DO miss that social interaction... though... some of the kids they'd be "interacting" with would leave much to be desired LOL!
You sure did have your guys close together, though... they'll be such good friends when they're older :]
Maybe I will post sometime soon about "how to homeschool" LOL! It's easier than it sounds. Bless you.
Mrs. C