So, because I’m random you get an entire post about my kids education.
When Corban was little I decided I was going to homeschool. I only planned to homeschool threw elementary school, then send him to school.
THat’s not what happened. Here’s our journey!
At age 4 we in-rolled him into a virtual school out of Mequon Wisconsin. He used the Little Lincoln curriculum. I’m not sure what possessed me to use virtual school with a preschooler, but I’n sure common since wasn’t used. He enjoyed it. It gave us a foundation. Before that he did Montessori daycare and I’m not sure why I changed from that. Anyways, I did, and although virtual preK wasn’t all that bad, being tied to someone else’s schedule was annoying.
We finished the year, switching to My Fathers World for K and first. You can find that at mfwbooks.com it was great, but not enough for my budding learner. However, we must complete what we started right? So, that’s exactly what we did. His second year, we did Exploring Countries and Cultures. That curriculum again is found from My Fathers World. Along side that we used some worksheets from superteacherworksheets.com, education.com, pbskids.org, and whatever I thought he needed. We did not complete all 36 weeks of Exploring Cultures and Countries because week 12 in, I was supplementing more than i liked. I felt confident on my decision to allow Corban to explore his own learning desires by then, so we switched to unschooling.
I let people get into my head how bad unschooling was, so I in-rolled him in to Bridges Virtual Academy out of Merrill WI. That was the longest school year ever. Third grade was hell, and we didn’t care for the teacher. His problem was he was testing 2 grades ahead, and the teacher had no clue what to do with him. We kept trucking along because I wanted to prove to people my kid was not screwed up. He’s pretty smart.
We finished that year of hell, he went from 3rd grade to 5th grade. Crap that was a jump. I was not ready for that. However i was responsible for him. His learning, his education.
I listened to him, and let him learn what he wanted to. THe boy has a vas ocean of likes, and he loves to research. He loves to learn. I’m Blessed to be able to facilitate his education. It’s been fun watching him progress and learn new things. Eighth grade is where we are now. So much fun! He hates geometry but loves everything else.
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