We finished Pre-K 4 today! We are planning to take the rest of this month and July off to just read a little and play a lot!
Thomas started out knowing very little and now my boy is reading and even writing in cursive! I am so proud of him.
I am thankful to have had this year to explore homeschooling without a lot of formality, rules or regulations. We took almost a full year to complete the school year. There were several "life happens" weeks where things were stressful for one reason or another and we just chose to table homeschooling for a while (knowing we had plenty of time to complete our work) and other days when we just didn't feel like homeschooling so we didn't.
The beauty of homeschooling is that we are not ruled by the "attendance lady" and don't have to worry about excused or unexcused absences. If one of us was having a bad day, we could just not do school. I hated the days when I knew I was setting one of my older kids up for a bad day at school by sending them because it would have been an unexcused absence. Who wants to get a ticket for truancy? Ugh...
The scary part of homeschooling is that if you aren't too careful, you can fall behind and catching up could be a real bear. I have seen this with a friend...life happened, they fell behind in school and catching up was exhausting. Thankfully I am pretty disciplined in general.
All in all this has been such an amazing year. I have loved spending the morning with Thomas and KK teaching them everything from their ABC's to stories from the Bible. Who would have thought that when reading about Abraham taking Isaac up to sacrifice him that I would get choked up just thinking about the horror Abraham must have felt and wondering if I could do that with Thomas? Or when teaching the kids about Mary washing his feet with the perfume from her alabaster box I could sing CeCe Winan's song "Alabaster Box" to them and they could understand (at their age level) what that song meant?
I am so thankful and feel so blessed to be a part of their journey through education...God has blessed me, my gratitude runs deep.
Next year I will be homeschooling BOTH Thomas and KK. I will definitely have to be more disciplined and focused but I KNOW that I will be doubly blessed!
Thanks for reading...until August! ♥
Thomas started out knowing very little and now my boy is reading and even writing in cursive! I am so proud of him.
I am thankful to have had this year to explore homeschooling without a lot of formality, rules or regulations. We took almost a full year to complete the school year. There were several "life happens" weeks where things were stressful for one reason or another and we just chose to table homeschooling for a while (knowing we had plenty of time to complete our work) and other days when we just didn't feel like homeschooling so we didn't.
The beauty of homeschooling is that we are not ruled by the "attendance lady" and don't have to worry about excused or unexcused absences. If one of us was having a bad day, we could just not do school. I hated the days when I knew I was setting one of my older kids up for a bad day at school by sending them because it would have been an unexcused absence. Who wants to get a ticket for truancy? Ugh...
The scary part of homeschooling is that if you aren't too careful, you can fall behind and catching up could be a real bear. I have seen this with a friend...life happened, they fell behind in school and catching up was exhausting. Thankfully I am pretty disciplined in general.
All in all this has been such an amazing year. I have loved spending the morning with Thomas and KK teaching them everything from their ABC's to stories from the Bible. Who would have thought that when reading about Abraham taking Isaac up to sacrifice him that I would get choked up just thinking about the horror Abraham must have felt and wondering if I could do that with Thomas? Or when teaching the kids about Mary washing his feet with the perfume from her alabaster box I could sing CeCe Winan's song "Alabaster Box" to them and they could understand (at their age level) what that song meant?
I am so thankful and feel so blessed to be a part of their journey through education...God has blessed me, my gratitude runs deep.
Next year I will be homeschooling BOTH Thomas and KK. I will definitely have to be more disciplined and focused but I KNOW that I will be doubly blessed!
Thanks for reading...until August! ♥
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