I'll just jump right in here and say that 5 months of public school has messed my son up so acedemically that it is making me so upset. Last nightI was looking through our supplies to see what books I will need to start homeschooling again next year. anyway I gotout his math book and and told him to flip through the lessons and stop at the page he hasn't learned yet. He went about 5 lessons ahead. I was like "Honey are you sure?" I mean in 5 months they haven't even learned half of what he would have at home. I am so upset with the school and then upset with myself for having my "melt down" I could just cry. I have a feeling we will need to repeat everything this year and that he will be a year behind now. :x
Just take it one day at a time. Maybe you could get one of those placement test workbooks from a local tacher supply place (or online) and test him to see what he still needs to learn. And start there. Don't stress about it. He's home now and you know you can help him work through the work quicker and you'll catch up in no time.
I'm sorry! How very frustrating that must be! They usually catch on faster and go through things more quickly when being homeschooled. I wouldn't want you to skip any concepts of course, but it's WAY obvious that you can move much faster than ps was! If he works on it over the summer, he could catch up quite a bit. Even if he goes into the next school year still working on it, you can just go straight into the 6th grade math at that time. Best wishes to you and him both! I'll be praying for you!
can you guys work on the filling in for the summer? Its ok that you sent them to public school, how else would you know? Thats probably why they aren't so enthused about learning, because they have been bored to death at school, which the teacher should have noticed and put him in advanced placement.
Sarah, Just think about the kids on the base that will be moving to a new location next school season and they will have such different standards that those kids will be behind.
I am so sorry! That is just terrible. My fil is a teacher and said the first half year is just review from the previous year. Just awful. Just take it one step at a time. He will be fine. We often talk about being ahead and being behind. Well...those standards comes from the schools right? So, he isn't behind. In fact, any improvement or any length of time you are with him easily be ahead in no time. Don't worry or stress. He will be fine. Try those Summer Bridge workbooks. Those are really nice.
I can totally relate. We pulled dd out of ps back in Dec because of how far behind they were compared to what she was doing with me after school. We saw a friends K papers from school a few weeks ago, holy cow, dd is so far beyond what they are doing now. I don't regret for one minute pulling her out. Had I left her in she would have been labeled as ADHD and would just not be counting to 15 and writing all of her ABC's. It's insane. Don't worry, you'll be able to get him caught up because he'll be able to go at HIS pace at home with you and you'll be amazed at how quickly you go through things.
