I\u2019m sitting here, trying to find ideas and resources and get my ducks in a row for next week.\u00a0 And I\u2019m frozen.\u00a0 I just can\u2019t figure out where to start.\u00a0 Let me explain:<\/p>\n
I have a now 7 year old who does 2nd grade math and reads on a 2nd-3rd grade level.\u00a0 I have a 4, soon-to-be 5, year old who insisted on starting kindergarten work this year despite her age.\u00a0 I ditched the boxed junk this past September because of differences with the company I was using.\u00a0 We decided, meaning I decided and DH supports me, to try doing our own thing this year.\u00a0 I made that decision because the oldest one effectively taught himself to read last winter during some dark times in our family\u2019s last year.\u00a0 We\u2019re eclectic for the most part.\u00a0 I still have some workbooks we use for Math, the 4 yr old is about half way through hers.\u00a0 The 7 yr old HATES workbooks, so we\u2019ve taken more of a real-life experience with him (ie: keeping track of his own money, and estimating prices at the food store, and helping with the cooking and fractions).\u00a0 For language, we mostly just read, anything and everything.\u00a0 The big guy has a hard time writing, so I don\u2019t push it.\u00a0 He\u2019s very creative though, and will draw out stories and create his own mini books that way.\u00a0 We love lapbooks actually.\u00a0 ThePinkDiva, as I call her, is learning to write her letters with very little prompting from me.\u00a0 She plays with a Princess book I found, and suddenly she\u2019s writing her name and short 3 letter words all on her own.\u00a0 The 3yr old is picking things up from the older two, and doing a good job of it.\u00a0 All three are complete computer geeks.\u00a0 The 3 yr old has been running the computer and his own games for almost a year now.\u00a0 GeekBoy, my 7yr old, is on a lego league team, but we\u2019re really more of a glorified playgroup at this point.\u00a0 We\u2019re in a co-op for PE and Field trips, we have a subscription to GeeArt that I need to use before it expires, and thePinkDiva is in a weekly ballet class…<\/p>\n
That said… I know I\u2019m lacking in history and science.\u00a0 I feel all mentally constipated.\u00a0 For some ideas and guidance, I\u2019ve looked over the SOL\u2019s for the grade levels they should be in, and I know where we need work.\u00a0 I just get all frozen because I\u2019m not used to this!\u00a0 I need to *de-school* my own head.\u00a0 I\u2019m still stuck in the \u201cif we don\u2019t spend XX amount of time at the desk, we\u2019re failing\u201d\u00a0 mode.\u00a0 How do I get past that?\u00a0 I feel like I need someone (or a curriculum) to hold my hand, but I know in my heart that if I can just get past this mental hurdle\u2026\u00a0 I\u2019ll do just fine.\u00a0 Besides, I really don\u2019t want to shell out the bucks for something that is just going to be a list of suggestions basically, esp not when I can find that online readily.<\/p>\n
Please, someone tell me that I\u2019m not alone…\u00a0 That mental blocks happen to other people too\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m sitting here, trying to find ideas and resources and get my ducks in a row for next week.\u00a0 And I\u2019m frozen.\u00a0 I just can\u2019t figure out where to start.\u00a0 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}