Homeschooling Begins
Yesterday I was driving home from the playground with my three youngest, when I said, “Boys, school starts next week”.
My 4 yr. old hollers “Oh Man!!”.
Danny, 10, says “What are you upset about, you don’t even have to do any school work.”
Andy and Troy then both began talking about not wanting to go to school.
Troy told me he loves being homeschooled, and he hopes he never has to go to school. Andy just said “I never want to go to school!”
Seeing my 4 yr. old, it is scary to think of sending him of to be with someone else all day every day. In our state he is legal kindergarten age. He will be 5 in November.
Thank God for the option to homeschool.
I know it isn’t for everyone, and I am not pushy about my convictions for homeschooling.
I am however opinionated and convicted that I am to do it.
A lot of people have the misconception that homeschoolers are weird, and sheltered from “real life”. Some people think there is no socialization.
Homeschooling is very social, and we have more oportunity to be in the real world with our kids- simply because we are with our kids.
Today we begin our homeschool Fall Soccer program. We go every Friday for 6 weeks. There are over 120 kids involved (last spring that was the amount anyhow), and 4 age groups, each with 2 coaches.
When the soccer program is done, we will begin our fall Co-op Classes. Parents volunteer to teach classes of about a dozen homeschooled kids. We have had classes such as “Red Cross First-Aide”, “Red Cross Babysitting”, “Automotive”, “Biology Lab”, “Fun With Math”, “Cooking”, “Sewing”, “Painting”, “Geography”, “Creative Writing”, “Health”, “Sign LAnguage”…..I could go on and on. Anything a parent or volunteer can teach well, can be offered as a course. Again, we have age appropriate courses, and 3-4 groups of ages.
When the homeschool choir performs they go to nursing homes.
I am looking forward to a great year of teaching my kids.
Now, to get ready for soccer….where are those shin-guards??
August 31st, 2007 at 9:14 am
Absolutely. The opinion that homeschoolers are anti-social little hermits huddling around the kitchen table with the blinds drawn has always made me chuckle. If we’re in the house so much, why does my van have so many miles on it?
August 31st, 2007 at 6:26 pm
I got my first socialization comment of the year. It’s officially school season again. LOL I’m writing about it on Tuesday.
September 3rd, 2007 at 8:18 am
I have to agree with you Lydia, why do we seem to always be running if we are so unsocial? Sometimes I think we should just do our school work in the van, between homeschool activities.