yeah I know I spelled cirricilium wrong, ashamed to say I grew up in with a family educational supply store & still can't spell it.... anyway...
My son is 7, going into 2nd grade. Spend the last 3 years at Montesorri. My main worry with homeschooling in general is a child developing with a lack of social skills. My son does not and will probably never have this problem--his problem is he is SO social he gets distracted from his work. (What's that joke... "works well when cornered like a rat in a trap"--that's my boy!) I know he's smart potential-wise, but both dh and I were way more advanced academically by this time & that sort of has me wondering. I think a year of homeschooling as a transition from private to public school might be a good thing for him.
Problem: I am not the most self-disciplined person in the world either. If I do this I need a good solid academic program to follow. He's got good reasoning skills, and I hate to teach to the test, but if I can boost his basic academics he might be able to get into a gifted program next year where some of his Montesorri friends will be. Like I said I grew up in an educational supply store, and there's some things I know I'd like, like the logic program I had in my gifted class. And dh will have lots of fun teaching science. But it's the basic three R's that I'm afraid of getting sidetracked from if I don't have good lesson plans to follow.
Am looking for suggestions for curiculium. What am I getting myself into price-wise? It should be less than private school, I'm sure (or at least I was sure until I heard one program described here as "breathtakingly expensive")but the VALUE for the money would be more important to me. Plus, we're pagan, so it would have to be a non-Christian program as well.
My son is 7, going into 2nd grade. Spend the last 3 years at Montesorri. My main worry with homeschooling in general is a child developing with a lack of social skills. My son does not and will probably never have this problem--his problem is he is SO social he gets distracted from his work. (What's that joke... "works well when cornered like a rat in a trap"--that's my boy!) I know he's smart potential-wise, but both dh and I were way more advanced academically by this time & that sort of has me wondering. I think a year of homeschooling as a transition from private to public school might be a good thing for him.
Problem: I am not the most self-disciplined person in the world either. If I do this I need a good solid academic program to follow. He's got good reasoning skills, and I hate to teach to the test, but if I can boost his basic academics he might be able to get into a gifted program next year where some of his Montesorri friends will be. Like I said I grew up in an educational supply store, and there's some things I know I'd like, like the logic program I had in my gifted class. And dh will have lots of fun teaching science. But it's the basic three R's that I'm afraid of getting sidetracked from if I don't have good lesson plans to follow.
Am looking for suggestions for curiculium. What am I getting myself into price-wise? It should be less than private school, I'm sure (or at least I was sure until I heard one program described here as "breathtakingly expensive")but the VALUE for the money would be more important to me. Plus, we're pagan, so it would have to be a non-Christian program as well.
