I am having a really really hard time deschooling. Now my Sassy hasn't had a hard time with it. She has always disliked school and had a hard time. She deschooled on the last day of school last year!!! ;-) She loves loves loves being homeschooled. She is not your average bear. :) I can't get the rigidity out of my head and the planning and organizing and grading and all that jazz. I am currently using the Abeka line of curriculum but I'm not very pleased. I feel so bored with it and I know Sassy is too. I am thinking of creating my own curriculum or changing over. It feels just like regular school rather than the interactive, creative, free-flowing homeschool we'd like it to be. I realized I haven't blogged about homeschooling once. That's because I can't deschool myself enough to do stuff out of the Abeka organized curriculum. I believe what I'm going to do is be a 1/2 unschooler 1/2 homeschooler. I think next year I'm designing my own curriculum with things we want to learn about, with recommended books and possibly using curriculum only for math and english studies. IDK, who knows. All I know is that it's gotta get more exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
DeSchooling
Perhaps it's field trip time. Perhaps I could start lapbooking and notebooking with her. She'd love that. Ok. Plan time. ;)
Posted by Amber at 12:11 PM
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I hope you're able to find something that works, Amber. Have you found some online resources to help?
Also, a technical question: How do you make your photos so large? I'd love to do that on my blog, but don't know how. (Your photos of Operation Christmas Child were amazing! Wow. What a difference you all are making in the lives of children. OCC is a phenomenal program.)
I think you know how much I love lapbooking. I have some online resources that I could forward to you if you'd like.
I wish that I could have the opportunity to homeschool Sophie. I think that she would love a way of learning that is so hands on. I worry that she'll feel stifled by the parameters of school when she starts K in the fall.
That's the beauty of homeschooling - you get to be in charge and change things up when you want. I love education and sometimes I wish I did homeschool, because my kids enjoy learning and I'd love to tailor a curriculum just to them, their needs, and interests.
I'm sure you'll come up with an amazing plan for your daughter.
-FringeGirl
I strongly encourage you to put the Abeka aside and find something more engaging, fun, and inspiring. :-) Homeschool (and learning) should be a delight not a drudge.
Have you downloaded the Homeschool Toolbar? It may be a good starting point for doing more research about various methods.
http://homeschoolbar.com/
My kids used Abeka in a private school. It is a rigid curriculum. You have time to figure it out, I tried to remember that kids are learning all of the time! It's what they are learning that matters. Kudos to you for caring enough to homeschool her.
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