Jan 08 2009
What Are Your Home-School Resolutions?
Get out of that slump! Go on. You know what time it is. It’s the new year! So let’s look back at the last semester of home-school and focus on what worked and get rid of what didn’t. After all, even the best laid plans may need a little tweaking.
So what did I do right last year? Frankly I didn’t do a lot. I don’t mean that I didn’t do much right. I mean I didn’t have much to do, period! The boys are now in 7th and 9th grade. I pretty much plan the curriculum and let them at it. I’m feeling pretty useless. It’s like they don’t need me anymore. And I think that it probably is the best thing I’ve done in home-school so far! When I first started home-schooling, one of my goals was to teach my boys to teach themselves. So I guess I don’t have too much to complain about.
What did I do wrong? Well, it’s always something isn’t it? I guess if I had to pick something derogatory I would say that I didn’t check up on the boy’s work enough. I need to start grading daily, instead of weekly–so I can catch their mistakes early. I’d say I also assigned too much reading for Jay. He wasn’t able to keep up. So I cut the reading back and made a home-schooling resolution to check their work daily.
How about you? Have you made any home-schooling resolutions? If you have why don’t you share them with us, so that we all can be motivated and encouraged to have an even better home-schooling year.
