If you follow me on twitter then you saw me tweet the following a little while ago:
Why, oh why, aren’t there any books for secular homeschoolers? I don’t want Bible verses every second paragraph. I want ideas & inspiration.
This was brought on by attempting to read Homeschooling for the Rest of Us: How Your One-of-a-Kind Family Can Make Homeschooling and Real Life Work
So, when the guidance I find for making homeschooling work within your life is all centered around being Godly and raising your children in a Godly way. I feel myself recoiling. I know there are good secular resources out there, but I’m struggling to find them.
I guess my fear is coming from the fact that I don’t have a plan. I don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t know where I’m going. I know what he needs to be able to do. I just can’t figure out how to do it. I don’t want super structured. If I wanted that, I’d do Well-Trained Mind or Calvert. We tried something with lesson plans — Oak Meadow — that were for the week, but I just can’t make it work. My son doesn’t like the artsy part of it AT ALL. He can’t draw things and he doesn’t want to. But the curriculum is like totally drawing and art and it’s not his thing.
He likes worksheets, at least sometimes, so we’ve been doing some of that. But a lot of the time he doesn’t want those either. I just don’t know what to do.
I guess what’s really flipping me out is the fact that I can’t figure out how to fit the way I teach, normally, to someone who is 5 years old.
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Have you looked at Time4Learning yet? This has been the curriculum that truly changed our outlook on homeschooling. It is secular. It is fun. It is multimedia. You can do anything you want with it – – design unit studies around it, use it as a core curriculum OR a supplement. It’s really an all-around multi-purpose homeschool tool. Or at least it has been for us. Might check it out if you haven’t already! Best of luck!
I’ll have to look into it. Thanks for the suggestion.
I realized that I’m mostly panicking because the “sign” went up at our local elementary school for registration for kindergarten. Technically, he could register this year because he was born 2 days before the cut off or I can hold him out a year and register next year.
I’m planning to wait so I don’t have to start the evaluation process by the state until he’s six to seven.