Through the Years of Home Schooling~

This is my 28th year of homeschooling.  I only have 3 more years and then.....  this journey will be over. Honestly it makes me sad. I will have 30 years of memories....  of home schooling my half dozen.  Time really does go so fast....

The early years~

Two teens left at home.

but, they do not look like that now....

Here we are now....

Wyatt who is 11th this year and Wesley who is 10th.

We use a hodge podge of curriculum.  Heart of Dakota is our main curriculum. Teaching Textbooks for math and sometimes Apologia for Science, sometimes Abeka Science. Easy Grammar is every year.  You may ask why? But, all of mine score high on English on the SAT.  So if it works why change. Although we are not "get the highest score" people.  My oldest three did a boxed curriculum. Abeka mainly.  They learned the information to pass the test... but not because of their love of learning.

We changed for the youngest three ....  about 9 years ago.  That is when we started with Heart of Dakota. We love it. It is a literature based program.  It is a lot of reading but it all correlates together. Somewhat like a unit study.

Of all our years of home schooling....  I would say ....  laugh more, read together more.... take walks, don't sweat the small stuff. Enjoy it. If your child is struggling with reading or math or handwriting.. IT. IS. OK.  They will get it. It may not be like your neighbor's child or the other 1st grader in the home school group....  or even the other 4th grader....  but they will get it! Do what is right for your family.

ENJOY this time with your children.  It goes way to fast. I say the same thing over and over...  but it needs to be said over and over....

Happy 2018-2019 school year!



Grace~ Teena