homeschooling through charter school? - Page 3

[moondiapers]

Originally Posted by elizawill

but even connections academy or k12, which are very 'school at home' aren't like a typical brick and mortar school, yk? i know for certain in the elementary grades, the actual seatwork only takes about 2 hours and you can log the remaining hours doing whatever you want. field trips, cooking, tv shows, playground, etc. even though it is public school...it still is "learnig at home", which i think is a good alternative for some families. and the great news is, if you try it and hate, you are free to pull your child out mid year and return to traditional homeschooling

K12 curric takes a long time. If your child is really bright you might get it done in 4 hours....but if you're only taking 2 hours you aren't doing all of the work. That said, we do it our way. I even use some of my own curric, then just mark the K12 lesson complete that corresponds with it.

[elizawill]

i'll be honest ...i don't use k12 and never have. but my understanding is that you aren't supposed to do all of the work. since it's a mastery based program, you choose the best activities and lessons to help your child master the concept. they give you a variety of choices to do this, but they don't expect all of it to be done. that's what i've read on here anyway many times.


i only meant to say virtual schools are still a lot less than b & m schools. even assuming it take 5 hours a day (which is a lot for sure!!)...it's still a lot less than a full day in a public school b &m setting... plus homework. that's all i meant.

[moondiapers]

Originally Posted by elizawill

i'll be honest ...i don't use k12 and never have. but my understanding is that you aren't supposed to do all of the work. since it's a mastery based program, you choose the best activities and lessons to help your child master the concept. they give you a variety of choices to do this, but they don't expect all of it to be done. that's what i've read on here anyway many times.

No, but they expect each subject and sub-subject to be done. My son is in 3rd grade. Here was his schedule for today...

Math 3 (choose from 3 activities, plus assessment)
Literature 3 (3 chapters of charlotte's web with worksheets) then assessment
Handwritting
Grammar
Vocabulary
Science 3 with Lab and assessment
Art3 (it's applied art plus art history on the same timeline as the history curric)
French
Study Island
PE must average 20min per day. We do 60 min twice a week.

This was just for today. Everything except studyisland and french had assessments. Assessments may not be skipped. And you do have to do something in each subject each day because the teacher has to look through your notebooks and see that you are doing the work. Science labs may NOT be skipped etc. On days were there isn't any science there is History. There is a lot of reading for history. Unless you allready know the history you can't pass the assessment without reading. And you ahve to keep a history notebook with something from each lesson in it. So you can't just read then assess. You have to also do an assignment or write a narrative about what you learned, so you can show it to the teacher at your face to face meeting. On days when you don't have Grammar and Vocabulary you have Composition. Comp req. a lot of writting. YYou can assess out of the math until you get to challenging work, but then you MUST show that you are doing the work by keeping a math notebook with the units and lessons labeled and dated.


This is NOT possible in 2 hours a day. It's more like 5-6 hours a day.

[moondiapers]

I used to use a waldorf independant study charter school. We loved it, and chose to use our own curric instead of the waldorf one provided. Then we moved and it was too hard to get to the meetings in another county with all of my daycare kids in tow.

[elizawill]

Originally Posted by moondiapers

No, but they expect each subject and sub-subject to be done. My son is in 3rd grade. Here was his schedule for today...

Math 3 (choose from 3 activities, plus assessment)
Literature 3 (3 chapters of charlotte's web with worksheets) then assessment
Handwritting
Grammar
Vocabulary
Science 3 with Lab and assessment
Art3 (it's applied art plus art history on the same timeline as the history curric)
French
Study Island
PE must average 20min per day. We do 60 min twice a week.

This was just for today. Everything except studyisland and french had assessments. Assessments may not be skipped. And you do have to do something in each subject each day because the teacher has to look through your notebooks and see that you are doing the work. Science labs may NOT be skipped etc. On days were there isn't any science there is History. There is a lot of reading for history. Unless you allready know the history you can't pass the assessment without reading. And you ahve to keep a history notebook with something from each lesson in it. So you can't just read then assess. You have to also do an assignment or write a narrative about what you learned, so you can show it to the teacher at your face to face meeting. On days when you don't have Grammar and Vocabulary you have Composition. Comp req. a lot of writting. YYou can assess out of the math until you get to challenging work, but then you MUST show that you are doing the work by keeping a math notebook with the units and lessons labeled and dated.


This is NOT possible in 2 hours a day. It's more like 5-6 hours a day.

well, like i said. i don't use k12. but what you listed seems reasonable and typical for a public school. i still think doing work in your pajamas, taking breaks when you want, and having the freedom to do what subjects you want first, etc. are fabulous alternatives to a typical b & m.