Comments on: Our Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum

By: Au Pair » 30 Blogs with Back to School Tips for Kindergarteners

Au Pair » 30 Blogs with Back to School Tips for Kindergarteners — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:12:53 +0000

[...] Our Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum [...]

By: Tara Ziegmont

Tara Ziegmont — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:28:40 +0000

We didn’t drop the class exactly. I had Grace promoted to the next grade level. We had to prove that she could already do all of the skills in the pre-k curriculum (by actually doing the graded assignments), and they let us skip all of the extraneous stuff.

Grace is in kindergarten, so they don’t cover every subject every day. We do the whole cyber school curriculum in about 10 minutes a day – because I use an alternate curriculum for reading, writing, spelling, handwriting, science, and social studies. If we did all of those subjects in the Calvert curriculum, it would obviously take a lot longer.

By: Veronica

Veronica — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 04:34:56 +0000

I love your post. Tomorrow I begin my journey with Samantha- my 5 year old. My husband and I tried to enroll her in public school. We lived 3 out of the 15 schools in our city. They were all “A” graded schools and came back with 100%. In our district – you have to list all schools by number of preference. We later found out that she was enrolled into our last choice of school- which was the furthest and worst in the district.
So after discussing it with Daddy- we decided to enroll her in Cyber School. Fortunately we are not new with this. 2 years ago we put our house in the market and did not want our teenage daughter to be pulled out of school and transferred half way through the 8th grade. So we chose Connections academy. We LOVED it! She was always a great student but without the distractions- she learned so much more. She is a very shy girl so once we settled in our new home- we decided to enroll her back in Public School for her first year of high school. As much as she benefited from the academics of online school- at this point she was suffering socially.
She just completed her first year if highschool and was an honor roll student the entire year. She was promoted to English Honors 2 months in and she was only 1 of 2 freshmen to be recommended for Dual Enrollment (Early College).
So we weren’t “disappointed” when we decided to enroll our little one in connections academy. Daddy is thrilled. Now she will have much more time together plus he will have swimming, and gymnastics classes for socializing.
My question is this- you wrote that you dropped classes- I was wondering how? I’m not judging because only YOU know what’s best for your child. But do you just check off the class as if it is completed? Or did you get the courses modified? Also the time- correct me if I’m wrong but you are able to complete each class in 10 min- or the whole day? I’m just looking for tips.
Thanks for all the great insight. :0)
Sincerely,
Veronica C

By: Robyn Wright of RobynsOnlineWorld.com

Robyn Wright of RobynsOnlineWorld.com — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 03:53:20 +0000

Fabulous post! I knew you would love homeschooling. I am all about combining subjects together for learning also. T loved when we immersed into a subject he was into.

Don’t forget when you are cooking with G on those Little House recipes that you are doing math and science too!