“In all our years of homeschooling, we’ve never used a packaged curriculum, which is probably just as well. Knowing our kids’ unpredictable patterns of interests and opinionated personalities, I suspect it would have been substantial money down the tubes. Instead, we’ve found it easier – and more rewarding – to invent curricula of our own. [...]
In her article titled “Reading Lessons” for the March-April 1997 issue of Home Education Magazine, Valerie Bonham Moon describes how her children learned to read by being read to: “The skill of divining the sense of arbitrary ink marks on paper isn’t taught from other arbitrary ink marks in books. As with the spoken word it’s passed on, over time, from a more experienced reader to a less experienced reader.”
“M-A-T-H. What thoughts come to mind with the word MATH? The three R’s. A government school ‘required subject,’ according to many state statutes and some local regulations. An essential topic in any homeschool.”
So writes Cafi Cohen in her column for the Jan/Feb, 1997 issue of Home Education Magazine, as she addresses Rethinking Midschool/High School [...]
If you are wondering about how homeschooling is going to change your life read this post. Of course this is not some sort of road map, but it is an interesting look into one mother’s thinking after two years of homeschooling.
This was originally published in December of 2007, a few short months after we started [...]
