is it quality or quantity for your style of home-education? for us, it's not about how many subjects we can squeeze into the day. it's not how many workbook pages that can be filled in correctly. or endless lessons of cause and effect... which by the way, you can teach in the car. nor is it about grades or testing.
it's about the quality of education. it's about offering things that public school kids cannot get. or, if they do... it may be taught by a secular educator that doesn't have my family values.
that said, i rented a wonderful dvd from our library about mother teresa. i knew bits and pieces about her life. my husband knew very little. and my son, knew nothing. after watching the dvd by myself on saturday and again monday night with the boys... i thought, how can one not go through life without knowing about hers? what she sacrificed, what the white and blue signify on her robe, her missions, etc. want to give your children quality education? rent this or read about her! i love her. and happily, my son learned really wonderful things about this beautiful person by laying on the floor with a popcorn bowl. i'm glad we have this freedom...away from the public system.
we've also turned the corner from "history." there is so much we need to cover... yet so much we've already covered. so, for awhile... we're covering "current events." since, he is "growing up in history and this era will no doubt go down in history, as a really tough time." we've been using this site:
http://www.izzit.org/events/index.php
some topics are just way over tommie's head (and mine, too), but i pick and choose... print off and discuss and work on.
quality or quantity?
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