As i sit here watching my children do their school work, i find myself having flash backs, to last year, when i first thought, and many others thought, that i wouldn't be able to do it or that we would fail THIS miserably ...
He has become a happy, motivated, little learner, why, you, may ask? Because as the lessons have become more harder, he considers it a challenge, and because its a challenge for him, he now loves it!
Praise God for his eager mind & heart.
Once he has done his work, he heads straight off to play and does his own thing for the rest of the day ... allow me to brag a little bit for him and share what he gets up too, in a average school day... you will find him finishing off a book or starting a new one or drawing, or making something, from the arts n crafts box. In other moments, you might find him at the computer, given his matheletics a blast or making his way through some other educational website. Most of the time he will take himself outside and do what kids do best; 'PLAY' . You might find him designing a new Lego creation, if not one of the above activities, you will find him playing a board game or creating his own board games and trying to coach or bribe his siblings into playing along with him ....and if he has built up enough merit ;-) he will ask for hour on the xbox or ask if he can watch a movie ...
what a great school day! ha
BUT HERE WE ARE, STRONGER AND MORE CONFIDENT THEN EVER...
When we first started this, home-schooling adventure, my oldest son; J1 was very happy to know, that he would no longer have to put up with incompetent teachers and even more thrilled to know that he didn't have to worry about his school yard bullies no more! ... read my Blog post, on "why we started home-schooling" for a rant on what happen... ...but at the same time, he was very disappointed to know, that he would be doing a grade lower, then what he was doing at public school 'what he thought was baby work' :-(But J'1 soon realised the joys of home-schooling and started flying through his work... and low and behold, before we knew it, he finished up, two grades in one year.
He has become a happy, motivated, little learner, why, you, may ask? Because as the lessons have become more harder, he considers it a challenge, and because its a challenge for him, he now loves it!
Praise God for his eager mind & heart.
{Now J'1 does, his school work at his own pace! and just flies through his work, like he always wanted too but was held back from doing so in public school ! ...would you agree that finishing off 5 subjects in a hour, is 'GREAT STUFF', yeah we do too! heehee.}Besides being able to do his school work, at the pace he wants, he has found other joys from home-schooling and has figured out, the quicker he gets his work done; the quicker he gets to play. clever cookie, if you ask me, heehee. So as soon as he can, he will dive straight into his school work, yes even while everyone else sleeps, he will wake early and dive straight into it, the little monkey.
Once he has done his work, he heads straight off to play and does his own thing for the rest of the day ... allow me to brag a little bit for him and share what he gets up too, in a average school day... you will find him finishing off a book or starting a new one or drawing, or making something, from the arts n crafts box. In other moments, you might find him at the computer, given his matheletics a blast or making his way through some other educational website. Most of the time he will take himself outside and do what kids do best; 'PLAY' . You might find him designing a new Lego creation, if not one of the above activities, you will find him playing a board game or creating his own board games and trying to coach or bribe his siblings into playing along with him ....and if he has built up enough merit ;-) he will ask for hour on the xbox or ask if he can watch a movie ...
what a great school day! ha
In all honesty, he has settled in wonderfully and become a thriving, bright child, who takes everything in his own stride and its funny, most of the time, i find my self, having to keep up with him..
........... Now onto J2, who out of all my children, has done the most outstanding... J2 started out with no care in the world or desire for learning and absolutely hated every aspect about education and sadly just struggled with it tremendously ... because...At public school, he was so far behind his peer's! that he become so lost with it, that he just gave up...he hated school with vengeance and would become angry, at the thought of even attending school. Most days he would work himself up into a frenzy, where nothing anyone said or done, would help him or comfort him...in time he become worse and would break down and cry in class and in the end he absolutely refused to do any school work at all.
He would become worse, when his teacher become impatient with him and she would growl instead of helping him and then id growl her heehee...well what she thought was helping him, only made him more upset and the lunch time detentions, for not finishing his school work, did not help one bit! :-(
........... Now onto J2, who out of all my children, has done the most outstanding... J2 started out with no care in the world or desire for learning and absolutely hated every aspect about education and sadly just struggled with it tremendously ... because...At public school, he was so far behind his peer's! that he become so lost with it, that he just gave up...he hated school with vengeance and would become angry, at the thought of even attending school. Most days he would work himself up into a frenzy, where nothing anyone said or done, would help him or comfort him...in time he become worse and would break down and cry in class and in the end he absolutely refused to do any school work at all.
He would become worse, when his teacher become impatient with him and she would growl instead of helping him and then id growl her heehee...well what she thought was helping him, only made him more upset and the lunch time detentions, for not finishing his school work, did not help one bit! :-(
WHY did any of the above happen; because he couldn't do the work set before him and he never understood what the teacher was trying to teach him!
and AFTER MUCH TEARS OF SEEING MY SON STRUGGLING; THIS IS WHERE MY HOME-SCHOOLING DESIRE WAS BORN.
Read my post on "why we started home-schooling" for a rant on what happen.
Fearfully, we had to start, right from the beginning and i do mean from the beginning and this is where his journey began... right there in the books of Learning to Read of C.L.E. Grade1 curriculum but now in the comfort and stress free environment of our home!
Although he was in grade 2 level in public school, according to his readiness test of the C.L.E curriculum, he was only at a prep/kindergarten grade 1 level but i decided to start at grade 1 level and back that up, with lessons from prep school curriculum, as needed and with lots of practise of writing out the alphabet and numbers and a ton of patience to boot from both of us.
AND
WHAT DO YOU KNOW, HE DID IT! J1 CAN NOW READ READERS! WRITE HIS NAME! DOES HIS WORK, WITH NO FUSS, NO TEARS, NO MORE STRESSING OUT BECAUSE HE CANT DO THE WORK....
He actually NOW enjoys his lessons and because he can do the work set before him, he has become a happy, brilliant and bright little learner and better yet, he loves to read all the time now! He walks around the supermarket with me, reading any sign, package, or billboard that he see's and if he doesn't know the word, he will ask with a happy little smile, instead of a frustrated frown and is a eager little learner! ... much more so, that at times it drives us a little nutty with the constant questions of wanting to know what this word is or what that word is heehee .... but what a blessing its been! to see my son turn into a sponge that just wants to soak everything up!
Its been a wonderful year for him, and when i see him reading with a big smile on his face, it warms my heart to know; that he knows, that he can do it!
AND GUESS WHAT,
he is now learning at grade 2 level and im sure in 6 months time, he can jump to grade 3.
WOOHOOO!!!
Now onto my my baby girl, who is not so much a baby, but thats her nick name, because she is our last baby heehee. She has actually been so blessed from her brothers being home and although she can be annoying to her brothers, she has been learning right along side them and doing as they do and has growing so much
Her brothers have taught her a few things, while she watches over their shoulders. She has picked up on a few words, lots of numbers and likes to listen in, on the lessons, as im teaching the boys. She will even speak up and give the answers, from time to time and very cutely makes sure her brothers are listening and for good measure, she will even repeat what ive said, to see if her brothers are paying attention. heehee.
I would have to give credit where credit is due and its all because of been able to home-school
She has done so well, that she has finished off her kindergarten curriculum before she was supposed to in 2012 and this year she has started on a few grade 1 subjects and i had to buy more kindergarten curriculum....as this year is officially, her first year of school and is now enrolled heehee.
Home-schooling has helped her tremendously! and has given her a head start in life, in learning and in her self.
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so that is us, so far, so good!.... its been a great journey so far and we are so blessed to be able to Home-School.
..................................................................................................................................
Read my post on "why we started home-schooling" for a rant on what happen.
Fearfully, we had to start, right from the beginning and i do mean from the beginning and this is where his journey began... right there in the books of Learning to Read of C.L.E. Grade1 curriculum but now in the comfort and stress free environment of our home!
Although he was in grade 2 level in public school, according to his readiness test of the C.L.E curriculum, he was only at a prep/kindergarten grade 1 level but i decided to start at grade 1 level and back that up, with lessons from prep school curriculum, as needed and with lots of practise of writing out the alphabet and numbers and a ton of patience to boot from both of us.
AND
WHAT DO YOU KNOW, HE DID IT! J1 CAN NOW READ READERS! WRITE HIS NAME! DOES HIS WORK, WITH NO FUSS, NO TEARS, NO MORE STRESSING OUT BECAUSE HE CANT DO THE WORK....
He actually NOW enjoys his lessons and because he can do the work set before him, he has become a happy, brilliant and bright little learner and better yet, he loves to read all the time now! He walks around the supermarket with me, reading any sign, package, or billboard that he see's and if he doesn't know the word, he will ask with a happy little smile, instead of a frustrated frown and is a eager little learner! ... much more so, that at times it drives us a little nutty with the constant questions of wanting to know what this word is or what that word is heehee .... but what a blessing its been! to see my son turn into a sponge that just wants to soak everything up!
Its been a wonderful year for him, and when i see him reading with a big smile on his face, it warms my heart to know; that he knows, that he can do it!
AND GUESS WHAT,
he is now learning at grade 2 level and im sure in 6 months time, he can jump to grade 3.
WOOHOOO!!!
Now onto my my baby girl, who is not so much a baby, but thats her nick name, because she is our last baby heehee. She has actually been so blessed from her brothers being home and although she can be annoying to her brothers, she has been learning right along side them and doing as they do and has growing so much
Her brothers have taught her a few things, while she watches over their shoulders. She has picked up on a few words, lots of numbers and likes to listen in, on the lessons, as im teaching the boys. She will even speak up and give the answers, from time to time and very cutely makes sure her brothers are listening and for good measure, she will even repeat what ive said, to see if her brothers are paying attention. heehee.
I would have to give credit where credit is due and its all because of been able to home-school
She has done so well, that she has finished off her kindergarten curriculum before she was supposed to in 2012 and this year she has started on a few grade 1 subjects and i had to buy more kindergarten curriculum....as this year is officially, her first year of school and is now enrolled heehee.
Home-schooling has helped her tremendously! and has given her a head start in life, in learning and in her self.
...........................................................................................
so that is us, so far, so good!.... its been a great journey so far and we are so blessed to be able to Home-School.
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HOME-SCHOOLING IS:
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what some call, the odd balls of society ..
THE PIC IS A VIEW OF WHAT MOST FOLKS THINK ABOUT HOME-SCHOOLING BUT WE SUIT BEING RED AND WOULDN'T CHANGE BACK TO BEING GREEN FOR ANYTHING, OR ANYONE.
LETS BE REAL AND TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT WHAT GREEN TRULY MEANS AND STANDING ON THIS SIDE OF FENCE LOOKS MORE AND MORE THE BEST DECISION WE HAVE EVER MADE.
I WOULD ENCOURAGE ALL FAMILY'S TO TAKE THIS JOURNEY ALSO....ITS JUST THAT GREAT!
THE PIC IS A VIEW OF WHAT MOST FOLKS THINK ABOUT HOME-SCHOOLING BUT WE SUIT BEING RED AND WOULDN'T CHANGE BACK TO BEING GREEN FOR ANYTHING, OR ANYONE.
LETS BE REAL AND TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT WHAT GREEN TRULY MEANS AND STANDING ON THIS SIDE OF FENCE LOOKS MORE AND MORE THE BEST DECISION WE HAVE EVER MADE.
I WOULD ENCOURAGE ALL FAMILY'S TO TAKE THIS JOURNEY ALSO....ITS JUST THAT GREAT!
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and last but not least..about me...its been a wonderful year of learning; for all of us... but for my self, ive been able to learn more about my children and who they are as individuals and not just what they know academically but what makes them tic, what makes them happy, what makes them cry and what makes them thrive and most of all what makes them, purely THEM.
Its been such a blessing of seeing what God has blessed each one of THEM with; and guess what, "i cant wait to see the future" ... MMMMM no matter how terrifying at times that might be for this momma, i know this path that God has given us, is the right path that we need to walk...
On top of all these blessings, we are ALL learning a new set of skills together, that which is of, utmost importance, of how to love one another, how to be kind to one another and to uplift one another according to Gods Word! and that also has been the biggest blessing, of being able to teach my children of Gods word, without the hindrance of permission slips, without the burden of the world, trying to teach them other wise!!! and without the world trying to have its way with my children's hearts and minds in public school ..
So to end this post
2012 was a blast, it has been filled with many up's and downs but from where im standing, its had more up's - then down's!
The perks that have come with home-schooling, the joy that it has given each one of us, the blessing of it, the future it holds for us and if i had to do it all over again, i would! and the only thing that i would change, is that we would started this venture from the get go of their schooling years....but 'all good things are in Gods timing and not ours'
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