I think I'm going to try homeschooling next year. There's nothing wrong with the school, no problems. I just want to keep my babies home. I feel a little selfish about it. I don't mind feeling selfish. They're my babies. It's my turn to be a mamma and these are my kids to raise.
The hubby says it's my choice to make as long as I keep the bedtime schedule the same as it is so they don't inturrupt his sleep by staying up all night. It's been going through my mind for a while and instead of going away the desire is getting stronger.

Reading eggs taught him to read real well. Kumon alphabet and Handwriting Without Tears 2nd grade workbook taught him to write. Now we've just started The Well Trained Mind notebooking. He has a 3-ring binder full of page protectors for history, science, and language arts. His language arts is an introduction to book reports. He copies one sentence from the book by hand to practice handwriting and good sentence structure. He then summarizes the story orally and I then write down what he says, Voila', book reports. In the history book we study the Usborne Encyclopedia of World History. He tells me what to write down from what we just read (outlining and note-taking skills). He draws a picture to illustrate and it goes in the history notebook.

It slowly builds up over the year into a nice notebook. Over the past few months we've accumulated a few pages in each book. I think it's super cute. There's a picture where tribes were hunting reindeer herds and the picture he drew has a red nose. He said, I hope they don't expect any presents from Santa if they're hunting the reindeer. I said it's history, it already happened a very long time ago, way before George Washington. He said, then I bet they didn't get any presents from Santa because killing the reindeer will get you on the naughty list for sure.

He also traces maps for the history notebook.

Math is mostly Bedtime Math word problems and youtube videos.
like this:


I find them. He watches them. He tells me about what he's learning, sometimes while the video's playing. Sometimes he likes to draw it out on the whiteboard. Google (any math subject) + You Tube + either Khan academy or Singapore math to access these wonderful free lectures for little kids. Also google any math subject + Maria Miller Mammoth Math for a supergreat professional math teacher showing you how to teach your kid real well using pen and paper. Google skip counting by (any number) + You Tube to choose from a variety of cute catchy songs.

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar