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Homeschooling at Our House
We are eclectic homeschoolers in the beautiful Pacific
Northwest. When our son began having problems in the 2nd
grade, we made the decision to homeschool him, and
when his sister's school closed two years later, she
came home too.
We love being able to have more time together as a
family, including traveling together, and yet also give
them time to pursue activities and interests in more
depth. Both of our children have some learning
challenges of one sort or another, but we've found that
our current approach to schooling also gives them more
time for targeted practice and remediation while
allowing plenty of time to play.
Our Basic Plan
Our children cover
all the conventional subjects listed at left, but in
varying amounts. Our kids are voracious readers, and
this makes our job much easier. We use some workbooks
and conventional texts, but also plenty of "real" books,
one-on-one and one-on-two tutorials, online classes
(with discussion forums), and in-person classes at a a
local Homeschool Resource Center two mornings per week.
Our children have very strong interests, so we
incorporate that into our choices as much as possible,
but we also have had our kids keep pace with or above
conventional standards for language arts, math, and
science.
Since our kids were quite young, we've tried to
emphasize critical thinking and synthesis in all
subjects- this means being able to analyze, critique,
and reformulate information, yet still know basic facts
and language or other conventions.
Because both of our children have some auditory
processing issues, we've incorporated some cognitive or
perceptual training in their regular schedules.
Because we considered our
children's individual differences in how we approached
their schooling, we made up a simple Homeschooling
Interest Planner (here)
that some of you might like to use. All sorts of
other free planning templates and schedules can be found
at the
DonnaYoung.org site and
thehomeschoolmom.com.
For more about specific resources activities that we've
used and enjoyed, check out the pages at left.
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