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My Fantasy Life: Homeschooling
One of the things I’ve been thinking about lately is homeschooling.
Mostly because I’m insane.
But today I had the idea for a co-op homeschool where five families get together and all the kids go to one house for school each weekday. This gives all the parents a chance to homeschool while giving all the families four days without kids. Kind of a best of both worlds strategy. Plus, if you’re only homeschooling one day a week you have time and energy to get a really great lesson plan together instead of trying to scramble it all together over the weekend.
The problem that I see happening is that I want to make a cirriculum for my kids that I don’t think matches any I’ve currently seen out there.
Let’s take math for an example.
Kindergarten – Learn about fractions and become comfortable with them through basic cooking/baking. Learn the names of pieces of money and what they are used for. (You know, concept and recognition stuff, no hard math yet.)
First Grade - Explore using fractions through the use of money and get deeper into the topic of finance. Buying, selling, adding, subtracting, fractions. (All through hands on training and examples.)
Second Grade - Concepts like interest, compounding, and more advanced finance topics. Maybe take them to the Chicago Board of Trade. Not so they can learn specific things, but so they can be overwhelmed by the awesomeness of the world economy.
Now, don’t get me wrong. There would be some globalization thrown in there – my husband is the geography whiz in this house – but the basic premise is first introduce the concept so they are working with something familiar, THEN teach them how to manipulate the familiar concept they’ve learned about.
If you know of a pre-existing homeschooling cirriculum that does things this way, please email me and let me know. I’d rather not create workbooks for the next year in addition to all the other stuff I’m already doing.
Using grades is just a guideline. Since if we do homeschool we’d be doing it during summer too (why should learning stop??) this may still be too fast for the kids, or they may take to it like ducks to water and we’ll be past these sooner than I anticipate. That’s not something I can know until the kids are doing it and I can see how it’s going.
At the same time, I could also just put them in kindergarten and call it a day. We did move to this town for the schools, and they are fantastic schools.
Luckily, I have a year to figure it out!
