This past week marked my daughter’s first day of Kindergarten and also our first week of homeschooling. Two very big firsts for our family!
Credits: Kit is “A New Day” by Sweet Shoppe Designs, the lined paper is from Misty Cato‘s “School Girl” kit, ABC border is from Quirky Twerp’s “Little Classroom Borders” (FREE), Template is by ChrissyW.
I certainly didn’t have any problems coming up with journaling for this one! For those of you who are interested in reading the journaling, it reads:
The decision to homeschool you for Kindergarten did not come right away. It was a series of events that started out with us realizing that we did not want to put you into our local school district since it was rated one of the worst in the state. Though we had put your name on a waiting list for a nearby charter school nearly 2 years in advance, by the summer of 2010 there were still 60-something children ahead of you in line to be accepted. So Greg suggested homeschooling.
I’ll admit, my first reaction to his suggestion was NOT in favor of the idea. Though I’d been homeschooled myself in high school and loved it, I just wasn’t sure I was up to the task. But as the summer went by, the idea grew on me until I realized that I was actually excited to keep my little girl home with me an additional year and to be your teacher.
Wouldn’t you know it, but the very charter school we’d originally hoped to enroll you in called us the very day after we’d ordered our homeschool curriculum with a spot open for the upcoming school year?
I thought about this new turn of events for all of 10 minutes and decided to continue on with our decision to homeschool. Though the school is great, they did not allow for part-time Kindergarten and I knew I was not ready for you to be gone for 5 full days a week, even though I am sure YOU would have handled yourself just fine.
So, here we are, a homeschooling family.
We enrolled you in a once-a-week homeschool co-op through another charter school so that you could meet other kids your age and also so that you could attend some of your favorite classes: art and recess!
When our own homeschool books arrived in the mail, you were so excited to start school that you begged me to start a day early. We are starting out with the Sonlight curriculum, which has a heavy emphasis on reading aloud, which I think we will both enjoy.
We now have one week of homeschooling under our belt. I think it went pretty well. You even asked me to do some school work today (Saturday). So we read another chapter in The Boxcar Children. I am already loving the fact that I can see exactly what you already know and what we need to work on together. You are such a smart, inquisitive girl. I am looking forward to being your teacher.
so…how is it going? are you enjoying SL so far? i recognize those books in the picture!:) i have a lovely white SL box upstairs waiting to be opened on my desk! It only has some Explode the Code books, and 2 new Handwriting W/O Tears books for my littles, but still…can’t wait to open it! 🙂
Hi Angela! Thanks for the comment. We are enjoying SL so far. I love that it gives me a general plan for the day/week. We modify it a little and I am supplementing with stuff I find online too. So far, so good.
I am so glad we are homeschooling Adrianna this year. I am enjoying this extra time with her. We haven’t decided (yet) if it homeschooling will be our permanent school choice (we will be taking it year by year) but so far I feel like this was the best decision for our family this year and I love it! She is enjoying her coop that is one day a week too. I am glad she gets art and “recess” there since those are her favorite classes. LOL.
We took a 2 week break for vacation since we had a wedding to go to in California, so we’ll start our third official week next week. I am already looking forward to getting back into the swing of things.