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| Welcome, Cassie! Will you be schooling her for preK or waiting until she's older? |
| posted by Gidget on 06/10/2008 01:49 PM
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| Well we are doing like colors and shapes and letters a little and matching like things and stuff like that. I got some flash cards at the dollar tree the other day and we worked on those for a while. We are not doing school on a routine right now, just when she wants to and until she gets bored like 30 min at a time. |
| posted by Cassie on 06/10/2008 03:34 PM
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| Sounds like you are doing a great job!! Doing it when it interest her at the age she is now is a great way to start. This will make her love the learning she is doing so she isn't being forced :). There is all different methods of homeschooling. You will find what works best for you and your family :). Do you have any specific concerns or questions? Please feel free to ask them here. We have all been new to homeschooling at one time or another so we know where you are at now :). Welcome again to the group!!! |
| posted by Jody on 06/10/2008 03:37 PM
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| One concern that I do have is I have seen diffrent familys do it diffrently during the years and the way that my husbands family did it was totally diffrent than how I would like to do it. Such as I want a time they get up and take a shower we eat breakfast and start and finnish not drag it on all day long. When I have brought this to my hubbies attention he dosen't really feel it needs to be done that way. and I just tell him that I am the one that is going to be doing it. Any advice on that one????? I am sure I am going to have lots and lots of questians for ya!! |
| posted by Cassie on 06/10/2008 04:08 PM
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| I will answer your questions tonight I promise :). We are abou ready to go some where. I just didn't want to leave you in the dust till then LOL. I am sure many of the other wonderful people here can help you too :). I'll be back later and answer your questions a little better when we return :). TTYS. |
| posted by Jody on 06/10/2008 04:15 PM
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If that's how you want to do things, I would start a routine while she's young. Not really doing school on a time table but other things like what time she gets up, what happens after she's up, etc.
I started out wanting to be on a schedule but it really didn't work well for us. Be willing to tweak things as you go along. We now have a loose schedule...we start school around 10 in the morning, we don't drag things into the afternoon (my boys work better in the mornings). We do things in whatever order works best for us that day. I started out saying we'd do this subject on this day and time and that didn't work for us.
My advice (after all that) is to be flexible. :) |
| posted by Gidget on 06/10/2008 05:47 PM
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| o.k thank you for the advice. I know it prob with come to a point when I will have to change some things but for now I want to live in my world of this is how it is going to be. HAHAHAH. |
| posted by Cassie on 06/10/2008 07:12 PM
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| Ok I am back LOL. I have to agree with others. If you want a routine start a little at a time now with bed time and wake time and things like that. I kind of do a schedule with my boy's. But it's more for me than it is for the boy's. The mornings is when I am most motivated. So we get up around 7 a.m. (they get up that usually on their own anyway) and we have breakfast and get dressed and teeth brushed. Then we sit down to start school work usually by 8 (some day's it differs though) then we usually start with Bible Lessons (we are Christians so this will be different for others) and then after that I let the boy's choose what they want to do 1st 2nd 3rd etc... They know they have to do all their lessons but they get to choose when they do them for the most part. We are usually done with schooling by 11a.m. or noon. If we do a project it might take longer but the boy's are pretty happy with that so they don't even care LOL. So we are on a very loose schedule. It can vary day to day if things come up. This way we don't feel like we missed something. Just remember to stay flexible and if something isn't working it's really ok to change it :). |
| posted by Jody on 06/10/2008 08:33 PM
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ya that sounds more like how I would like to do it. Have a bed time a get up time and be fully dressed and breakfast eatten and then what they do lesson wise 1st 2nd and so on I really dont care. My main thing is to get it done and not be doing it all day long. Such as my husbands family did it like in front of the TV and watch a movie here and a movie there and I just dont really wish to do it that way, and I know that my mother in law is going to tell me it really dosen't matter when in reality it really dosen't I guess but I would just rather not do it that way. Thank you all for the advice.
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| posted by Cassie on 06/10/2008 11:38 PM
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| Just remember to not get wrapped around a schedule though. Sometimes things come up and you have to do "school work" later or maybe even have a shorter or loner day depending on what needs to be done. Don't stress yourself out over making a schedule. Like I said mine is very loose so if something happens it's no big deal. You will find the first year is the hardest just because you are just trying to figure things out. Don't give up though :). |
| posted by Jody on 06/11/2008 08:17 AM
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| o.k thanks |
| posted by Cassie on 06/11/2008 12:06 PM
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I"m just going to chime in and agree with everyone else. Schedules look so wonderful on paper, but beware they can become slave drivers that suck all the life out of your day. Can you tell I speak from experience?? That was probably the single most valuable lesson I learned from our first "official" year of homeschooling. Now, a couple years later, we have a vague, loose structure to our day and it goes so much better, everyone is happier, and we get lots done. But then again, you may be one of those families where an actual schedule works, there are a few families like that out there. Just don't be afraid to change what doesn't work. Thats one of the beauties of homeschooling. :)
Have fun with your daughter while she's so young, you have plenty of time!! I'm new here too, so its nice to meet you!
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| posted by Sheralyn on 06/11/2008 03:27 PM
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