We started to Home school Clara this year for pre-school. We are using the "Abeka" curriculum, and have been loving it. Clara's schedule includes Phonics, writing, numbers, and even learning the Articles of Faith. (She knows the first and second by heart now.) With what the headlines are saying about the current (traitor) president going into schools and "talking" with the future generation, we feel that we have made the right decision in home schooling our children. And if anyone is worried about our children not getting the "social skills" they learn in school, obviously hasn't met our family (or for that matter, Clara-she is such a social butterfly!).
This book "A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century" (http://www.tjed.org/books) which we received through the TEAM leadership training system is a great book for home schooling.
ReplyDeletePeople may question the "social skills" aspect of homeschooling. Social skills are mostly taught by the parents, not teachers and classmates. The only way a home schooled child wouldn't develop social skills is if they lived in a cardboard box and never came out. Autumn has been to Arizona, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, California, Nevada, and Utah, all before she even turned one! She has been around people and kids wherever she goes, so she is learning social skills. It's not like kids don't know anything about social skills until they show up to class, they pick up things all along the way.
We have had a great experience home schooling Autumn since she was 4 months old, and really, every kid starts out home schooled (unless they are put into daycare while their parents go off to work).