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[teachmoni]

Hello,
Your group sounds wonderful.

I am currently a teacher who is thinking about homeschooling next year. I feel my teaching abilities are now needed with my son. I am looking into this possibility and I would appreciate any advice. (I also have to figure out how I am going to afford it but I know God will provide.)

Thanks for any info, advice and anything else!

[Jackie]

Welcome! I'm Jackie. I teach three children, ages 11, 9, and 5. I am a former teacher, too. You might find that us teachers sometimes are at a disadvantage when it comes to HS'ing...we often tend to want to have school at home, as opposed to homeschool. It's hard for us to think out of the "education box" which we've had drilled into us, LOL! DH is a high school teacher, and he sometimes has REAL problems with that, but has improved over the years.

[teachmoni]

OH, the "educational box", I know I will have hurdles since I have been a teacher for so long! I am hoping I will have the opportunity to provide for my son in a "different" environment.

[HeidiPA]

Welcome to Homeschool Spot! We are a diverse group, but we are all working for the same goal here~ giving our children the best education possible.
I'm sure you'll enjoy your stay here!
My name is Heidi, and I live in PA, where I homeschool my 2 daughters~ ages 11 (almost 12) and 5.

[Brenda]

I'm Brenda; I have three high energy/high maintenance boys (the kind you really dread in your classroom:shock: 13, 10 and 7.

I home schooled our 10 year old twice now and while my heart is still with homeschooling him, my husband needs to be hit with the same convicting 2x4 that I had to have slam into my head a couple times :roll:

I hope you learn lots while you're here - we're really not harmless - I would say very knowledgable group of women (and a few men)...

[Lornaabc]

Welcome. This is our 7th year of homeschooling. Good luck.
Lorna

[Syele]

Welcome, I'm HSing my one Daughter. She turns 4 tomorrow. :)

[teachmoni]

Thank you for all the warm welcomes! I am sure I will learn a lot from this group.

BY the way, the high energy boys you mentioned are the ones, I LOVE to teach.

Thanks for all your support.
Monica

[Jackie]

Great! You can have Brenda's boys and my middle girl. She's the kid that, if in a classroom, would work very hard on her math for five or ten minutes. Then she'd be listening in on your reading group, sharpening her pencil, getting a drink, looking out the window, checking out whatever anyone on the computer was doing.... After an hour, she JUST MIGHT have the first row done, LOL! So, of course, you would make her stay in for Recess to finish her work, when she really would need to get outside and run off some energy. She drives ME crazy, and I don't have her in a classroom of 30 other kids. One day, she showed me her spelling words. I tried to take them from her to keep. NOPE!!! She didn't want to give them to me. She wanted to take them down the basement and practice them while JUMPING on her Dad's EXERCISE TRAMP!!! Not something you can usually do in a classroom, KWIM? But I have the flexibility to roll my eyes and let her go, LOL!

[Trish]

Hi I am Trish. I have one daughter who is 7 and in 3rd grade. She is also very high energy. You can teach her also.

Welcome aboard and I hope you enjoy it.

[teachmoni]

I love your story about your daughter and her spelling words!

You might enjoy this little event that occurred in my classroom this year with a “very high energy” girl. I had my students write their spelling words on their desks with Expo markers. (We have wonderful desks that allow this) I was busy helping another child. This lovely high energy girl finished her spelling words and started asking for my attention – RIGHT NOW. Of course, I was still busy with another child. She wasn’t satisfied with that. She PICKED up her desk and CARRIED her desk over to me. She looked me in the eye and said without blinking an eye, “I just NEED you take my Expo marker and put a star on my desk and I will be happy.” I put a star on her desk and she picked up her desk and walked away. I wanted to laugh out loud but I couldn’t but I was having a good laugh inside and thought, “I love those kids!”

My dream would be to take those children yours and mine and teach them the way need to learn via the trampoline or whatever it takes. I have become very creative with my son also. Who would think you can practice mult. facts while tossing a ball to a dog? We do!
Thanks for listening
Monica

[mom2girls]

hello and welcome. i am homeschooling my almost five year old daughter. i also have an almost one daughter. tracy

[Brooke]

How on earth did you lug all those desks home to grade that night???? ;)

Welcome! Nice to have you here. I'm in my 3rd year of homeschooling. I have a 9yo son and 6yo daughter. My son was suspended twice in kindergarten :lol: for being the high energy bored child. He has other things at play, too, like Tourette's Syndrome. He was once diagnosed with ADHD and that same doctor took that diagnosis off the records after we had been homeschooling for about 6 months. He suggested we'd found the cure! :D

Again, welcome!

[Jackie]

Monica, that sounds precious! I've had a few of them, too! What grade did (do?) you have? I wish I could share the "cartoon" Faythe made to learn her Bible verse last week. The guy in charge of AWANAS is dyslexic, and is constantly looking for "unconventional" ways of helping kids learn their verses, and making a cartoon was one way she really latched on to!

[EnerJenny]

Hi, I'm Jen. I'm homeschooling my (just barely) 4 yr dd and will be working with my 22mo old ds. Hopefully more kids are in the future for us. We are currently in NC but next year we are moving to Liverpool, England for my husband to attend univeristy. I'll continue hs over there. We are currently using A Beka K4. So far, it's going pretty well :) Welcome to the boards!

[Lornaabc]

Well moving to England will be school in its self. LOL How neat!

[N4Life]

Children are so precious (though admittedly high maintenance sometimes!) :D
Hs w/ a loving mama has got to be the best place for them, I believe.
Sometimes they figure out on their own what they need--like spelling words on the trampoline. My 9yo dd & 10yo ds recently invented "times tag". If there are only two playing freeze tag, how do you ever get unfrozen? Easy! You answer the multiplication problem your tagger gives you! They even made it possible for baby (22 mos) to play--they taught her 1+1! ;-) They amaze me.
Welcome!

[teachmoni]

Brooke -
I understand what you went through when your son was kicked out of KG! We had to take my son OUT of KG! Oh what a year that was! My son has Klinefelters Syndrome and believed to have Marfans (they don't have a test right now for Marfans) - So I have a lot of understanding. If we wouldn't have discovered his KS, he would have been diagnosed ADHD....

Regarding taking home the desks to correct - since I have the students self-correct, it will give them something to take home on the bus!! :)

Jackie -
I would love to see the cartoon! It sounds great.
I teach 5th grade this year. I have taught K,1,2

Monica

[EnerJenny]

Lorna,

We are very excited and I can't wait for the kids to learn all about England. We'll be doing lots of traveling while we are over there to learn as much as we can!

[Jackie]

Jen, check out the CD "Bethoven's Wig". It has a song on there to learn the kings and queens in order, put to classical music. Very easy to learn! And it would give them some kind of time-line to hang all that neat stuff they'll be learning on.