January 26, 2010
Home school in our jammies
I started homeschooling Mikayla half-way through last year. She enjoyed it a lot as compared to “regular” school. She liked that she could work at whatever pace she wanted to. Mikayla excels at reading, math, and science. Art related things take more time for her. It is not that she is not good at them, she is a perfectionist. At 5 years old, she does not want even the slightest bit of color outside the lines. She takes her time. At home, I can give her all the time that she wants/needs. She blazed through our Kindergarten curriculum already and is doing a grade 1-3 review book that she is frankly doing even better on than I expected. She will do the crossword puzzles in her school book and will refuse to look at the word at the top, she wants to spell it herself.
Miranda is 3 and she already went through 3 preschool books. We are now working on a book that really focuses on the alphabet. She is doing really great and can now recognize the letters that we have gone through. She wants to read just like her sister.
Here they are, just after breakfast, doing a little school.
Zack sits happily next to his sisters, about two minutes after I took this, he fell asleep.
We are pretty pleased with our choice to home school. I think next year we will join a group or coop so that we can have more social time. I would also love to get both girls involved in a dance or music class but that will depend on the budget.
