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Homeschooling

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Every so often my mom,a former public school teacher, gets on me because my daughter is not doing “preschool ” meaning using curriculum which I have more than enough for her at this point but I’m not going to force her or fight her to do school. Why some might ask? Let me ask you this… when you were in school and by school I’m talking traditional public/private schools did you like being forced to follow a schedule,have your day basically dictated to you away from your parents and come home all tired from teachers telling you what to do,how to behave and discipline you then expected to do a ridiculous amount of homework?

Well I didn’t and at times I felt forced to do the homework which I’m not going to do for my daughter. I believe she’s learning more than she needs at this point in her life. As creative as she is without electronics (which gets taken away when she refuses to do school) everything she has around the house is all very educational so even if all she does is play with a train set she’d still learning,playing a game still learning… reading a book or looking at pictures in a book still learning. I’m not one to compare her to another child but when she’s willing to learn more or do school we have more than she needs. For now we’re unschooling and believe it or not it’s still homeschooling… child led,untraditional,gentler approach to school.

Think I’ll get her some games though since she’s taken interest in games recently. We can gameschoool… yes it’s actually a way of homeschooling.

MyFirstWorkout

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I recently came across a workout company that is designed for kids and since I have never heard of anything like this until a month or two ago I decided to check out their website href=”https://myfirstworkout.com”>https://myfirstworkout.com to see what it’s all about.

It looks really easy to use and adaptable. With this in mind I decided to try contact the company to see whether the company is for common core or not. It took awhile to get a response but she did respond saying that she was trying to get into public schools in the East Coast but I assured her if you’re trying to market to homeschoolers as well because we homeschool and I’m planning on doing this at home with my daughter….they would be most grateful if she doesn’t align to Common Core Standards. So guys get the word out.

It has dropped!

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Good Morning homeschool family!

So many things to get excited for today! Firstly  All About Reading IS better than ever because today they started selling All About Reading Levels 1-4

We’ve been using All About Reading Pre Reading for over a year with great success but I don’t just use AAR. I use multiple brands including LLATL (Learning Language Arts through Literature Blue book), phonics/sight word readers various companies,rhyming books,hands on,coloring type of manipulatives too. Next month I’ll be selling the level 1 black and white readers to purchase level 1 in color.

Secondly today makes exactly a year from my daughter’s last seizure so later today we’re celebrating with cake!

Thirdly my daughter is going to the park with her friend Katie which she loves. Also she loves making friends too especially if it’s the same people.

Have an awesome day! I’ll be sharing some of what we’ve been doing in our homeschool later today.

Hello homeschoolers!!!

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Exciting announcement for #homeschoolers !!!! All About Learning Press is FINALLY releasing for All About Reading levels 1-4 colored readers instead of black and white! I’m so thrilled to get the word out amongst homeschooling moms!!

https://blog.allaboutlearningpress.com/aar-color-edition/?fbclid=IwAR1QNOKnhb4Es6L9bwgGjwpO8eFBTzAOWP-LcaxdVjx7X-cLX21ZPRX7zdY

Starting new homeschool curriculum for 4 year old/last year of preschool

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Today we started a bunch of new curriculum and it turns out I am not using Heart of Dakota Little Hearts For His Glory because I switched out too many things but I am an electric homeschoolers who doesn’t do Common Core. What I didn’t know until later is their editions of Singapore was before Common Core. But what’s done is done. The other reasons I didn’t use it is I am not a fan of reading kids chapter books before they even do sight words/beginning to read and I,personally,believe that Geography and History should be alternated year to year.This year we’re doing some geography. We didn’t finish up all of the Little Hands to heaven but if we need something from it we can go back to the guide.

Just today Vicki did Bible(Horizons Preschool for 4 year olds),Devotions(Preschool level understanding Devotions),Math(LOF/Horizons),Writing(Write Shop Primary A), and Art(Artistic Pursuit).We also did some Art(Artistic Pursuits Preschool) which is really easy so far. We looked at the picture and found whatever was asked. Then I had her draw her reflection of the picture we went over. Her drawing was a vase. Kind of looks like one too. I also made an Artistic Pursuits Group on Facebook for homeschooling families that use it because I have not seen a group for Artistic Pursuits.It is a closed group but all homeschoolers are welcome. Artistic Pursuits Support Group

Here is what V covered/mastered so far:

This year she’s gotten better at

*coloring,

*tracing,

*cutting,

*gluing,

*drawing a bit,

*recognizing her ABC both upper and lowercase,

*able to write her nicknames(Vicki/Alli),

*knows her birthday, c

*can count to 5,

*rote counts to 4,recognizes numbers 1-10,

*able to do up to 4 piece puzzles

*tries to follow with her finger while reading.

*Continues to know her primary/secondary colors though we’ve not touched on gray yet.

Bible,(Horizons),Devotions(Preschool level devotions)Art(Artistic Pursuits Preschool),Geography(GeoMatters),Math(Horizons/LOF unless it becomes too challenging for V)Science(Science Shepherd Introducing Science),Writing/Copywork/Literature(Write Shop and Learning Language Arts Through Literature) Goal is to take it slow for mastery so about two years I think but that’s just an estimate. This is actually going to be her last year of preschool then we’re just going to call it school since we do not go by grade levels. By the time she’s done she’ll be around 5 or 5 going on 6. January will make 3 years of homeschooling v. On her birthday we will also take a walk to her local elementary school and file our letter of intent to homeschool that same day. Exciting!

We also have All About Reading and All About Spelling level 1 for both.

We will do everything in small increments or as long she remains interested. Every day will be different too.Will post a review later as we move through the curriculums.

What about grade level?

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Yes yes this! This is exactly what I do for v! When I choose curricula for her I ALWAYS go by her current skills she’s mastered. I NEVER follow grade level but grade level and how every kid should do x and x by x is just ridiculous because we all know even generally speaking we shouldn’t compare kids to siblings or other kids so why try to group them into a standard??!! Do you go by grade level or how do you place your kids?

What about grade level?

New Common Core site for companies and products

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I’ve started a new website on Blogger for companies that I’ve researched on my own that is not listed on the HSRoadMap.If you choose to use Common Core or not in your homeschool it is entirely up to you. Some of these companies support Common Core others don’t.A list of Companies and Common Core Stance.There’s only a few on there as of now but the list will grow as I am always continuing to research curriculum for my daughter.

Homeschool freedom

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This is something a lot of homeschool parents tend to forget. With homeschool there’s lots of freedom… we don’t need to do everything. We can be flexible as we need to. Hey if my kid wants play toys all day and it passed my inspection I count it as school. Cutting paper? I’ll count it.

http://www.notbefore7.com/2018/04/06/freedoms-homeschool-parents-forget/?utm_sq=fq3pie82dt