Home School Room

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 10/29/2012
Our current homeschool schedule:
We usually wake up between 6:30-7:00 am
Eat Breakfast together.
Read Scriptures (Dad leaves for work)
Clear off the table and do the dishes.
Jeremiah feeds the dog, while Caleb moves the bins to the table.
We sit down and have table time, or school or whatever you want to call it.
After table time we change the laundry and do a little physical exercise.
Lunch
Caleb takes a nap
While Caleb is napping Jeremiah reads to me.

The rest of the day is unscheduled as far as having a routine.  We go shopping or to the park, to the library or the CERC in Eagle Mountain.

5/25/2012
Dr. Raymond Moore, author of over 60 books and articles on human development, has done extensive research on homeschooling and socialization. His book, The Hurried Child, should be in every homeschooler's library. "The idea that children need to be around many other youngsters in order to be 'socialized,'" Dr. Moore writes, "is perhaps the most dangerous and extravagant myth in education and child rearing today."

Read more on FamilyEducation: http://school.familyeducation.com/home-schooling/human-relations/56224.html#ixzz1vukLih1b

The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.


I had always wanted to home school my children.  I really like the idea of it, and think there is a lot of things that children could do with out in the public school system.  I was scared though and had no idea how or where to start home schooling.  So I put him in the charter school lottery, thinking well at least it'll be better then the regular public school, right?  His name didn't get drawn, but shortly before school started he got a spot!  I was elated, to put it lightly!

While I don't think the year was wasted, because he has learned a lot, and so have I.  I also don't feel like he has had a very 'good' experience.  After doing a bunch of research, with more yet to come, I have determined that public school is not for us.  And while my decision is still considered public school, I feel like it is anything but.  We have decided to go with a K12 vitural (online) school.