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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Homeschooling 101

Many of you asked for me to tell you a little more about us homeschooling.  We are still very new at it, and are trying to get a feel of how we like it with E - she's in preschool right now and is supposed to start kindergarten next year.

We have a few friends who home-school, and after asking around we decided to go with Calvert Education.  We loved they way they taught, it wasn't just workbooks, or just online - they give you all of the supplies you need (pipecleaners, paint, paper, clay, worksheets, books, music cd, yarn, shapes and so much more) to teach.


Their lesson manual explains to you in detail how to cover each subject, what questions to ask, and how to challenge your child more (if you feel he/she needs it).  It also tells you how to teach and how much time should be spent on schooling.

A typical day includes story reading and answering questions, learning poems and nursery rhymes, drawing pictures, learning shapes and letters, crafting, math, singing songs and playing a game.  All of the lessons seem to be perfect for E and she really enjoys when we do school - she's learned a lot in the few months that we've been doing it and has perfected writing her name.



I love being able to spend one-on-one time teaching her and so far it's something that I really enjoy.  We do keep her very social, taking her to the park, library and playing with all of her little friends - I'd never want to isolate her and have her miss on having friends and the fun that comes along with childhood :)

If you have any other questions - let me know!!

PS - I'm guest posting over at Recent Somethings today about my beach must haves, come on over and say hi!


Happy Wednesday!

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Pink and Fabulous said...

This is great!! It's so awesome that you are doing this!

BLovedBoston said...

So great that you are able to do this!!! Going to check out your guest post now!!

Pamela @ alittleglitter.com said...

Thank you for sharing this information! Your daughter is totally adorable!

Courtney said...

I didn't realize y'all are homeschoolers too! That's awesome!! I'm starting prek with Abigail in a week or so and have had quite a few people ask me to do a post like this too :)

Nina @ Flowers in my Hair said...

I love your fam!

Jillian said...

i really had no idea how homeschooling worked but that's great that you have a book to help guide you along!

xo jillian - cornflake dreams

Christina @ Still Lucky said...

Great post, so happy to hear about how homeschooling is going for you. It sounds really interesting! I love how much support you seem to get from your program too, that's wonderful!

JMO said...

Very neat!! I look forward to hearing more about it!

amanda @ as the wine cork turns said...

awesome! and i love the picture with the play-dough!

Nat said...

Great post! Sounds like it's working out really well for you all which is awesome! I didn't even know places like Calvert Education existed but it makes sense now- so nice that they provide you with all the resources

P!nky said...

I've heard many wonderful things about homeschool, that's awesome. Good luck!

Becky M said...

This sounds so cool! You sound really organized!

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Ashley Brickner said...

You are such a rock star mama for doing this!!! :)

Rachel said...

So cool! I love seeing young homeschooling families! I was homeschooled from pre-k till college--from my perspective it's a great way to spend a childhood. :)

Ashley Rios @Love.Marriage.Baby said...

Wow I did this same post today! Some of my favorite blogs have been doing this so I decided to give it a try as well! And you do not look like you're 30...but I'm sure you get that a lot lol! I enjoyed getting to know you! Can't wait for your next post! :)