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Reno Co KS | We started hs during covid and have keep with it. The homeschooling culture is not what some ppl try to pigeonhole it as. Most of those are looking from the outside in. "Crazy Bible thumpers who lock their kids away from society and don't really know how to teach." People are shocked when they find out we homeschool as we don't fit the "mold". Whatever that preconceived idea they have is?
The homeschooling movement has exploded over the last few years. Along with microschools, coops, unschooling and other types of education sources. The amount of resources out there are mind-boggling and, to some extent, overwhelming.
We started with a temberdoodle set. Over the years we've made adjustments to the curriculum. Our kids like saxon math and we us IEW for writing. Science has been through a local homeschool coop along with some art and personal finance. These classes are taught by subject matter experts or former teachers.
Use your resources too. Everything you do is a teaching opportunity. Why is there still snow on the north side of a tree row? Why does water expand when it becomes solid? How many degrees until we are above freezing? Just a few examples that can all be expanded on depending on age.
Now, it is a lot of to work to do it right. You will have rough days. Some day we may send our kids back to government school. Homeschooling is not perfect but neither is public school.
Our place was full of awkward, unsocialized homeshoolers building tunnels in snow drifts this weekend. Weird
And, what's so bad about having some religion in school? Those 10 commandments are pretty good rules no matter your beliefs. | |
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