My son is having behavior difficulties at school and we suspect it is related to boredom. He is currently reading at a 3rd grade level and is confident in addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
Does anyone have recommendations for learning apps to challenge him? He is particularly interested in science (biology/DNA) and reading. TIA
His dad and I are divorced and we have shared parenting decision making and he doesn’t think I can handle it and doesn’t trust me but he only sees him 4 days a month and doesn’t understand what my son and I have been dealing with. He is checked out of his life. My son has ADHD, ODD and now diagnosed DMDD. He has been refusing to do school work for years but it’s gotten especially bad this school year. He’s eventually going to get really behind. He asked me to be homeschooled out of desperation a few nights ago and my initial response was I’m sorry your dad won’t let me. But I’m going to start practicing this summer and keep a log of everything we do, keep his work, and when school starts next school year I’m just going to do it and prove to his dad that I can by showing him everything we worked on. I think it would change me and my son’s life for the better. I want him to love learning. He is so bright but not applying himself. When I see his worksheets he takes home from school I think no wonder why he’s bored. If his dad takes me to court over it I’ll be prepared. My son is neurodivergent and public school just isn’t working for him.
Thank you for listening!!!
I want to start homeschooling my audhd son. His doctor said it won't be good he will have social emotional problems. Does anybody go through this? Advice? I just want what's best for him and public school isn't working.
Hey everyone! I’ve been working through curriculums for my 5 year old, and found one called Bookshark. Has anyone on here used this company? It’s fairly expensive, however you get a lot of good books that are included. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!!
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For my kindergartener, who is struggling and will be homeschooled for the first time next year (continuing with kinder curriculum) is AAR enough before I invest in a spelling and grammar curriculum? Should I maybe do some handwriting without tears as well?
For my soon to be 3rd grader should I be getting AAR, AAS and something like fix it grammar?
Holy smokes there’s so much to learn and having so much on the market makes it even more tough.
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I [31] showed him [40] this reel and that's what he said. He wants children and now I'm questioning everything.
It seems like he's saying he'd rather the state take care of his child and it makes me sad because of the time I've invested in trying to show him the truth. Sometimes the truth is too much to bare? I cannot grasp that because children deserve to be safe. Clearly he is not ready for a child and I've made a mistake.
I've been following some mommy blogs and learning tools from Pinterest, printing worksheets and using home objects that have multiple textures to teach motor skills, spatial reasoning, and numbers, but lately I feel there has been no structure. Its not easy to curate a curriculum. Can anyone help me create this for a 3 year old or share any resources that might have helped you?
My daughter will be reading many sad books for school next year and I need some cheerful/funny/ happy books for her to counter this. Books she is assigned are “Where the Red Fern Grows,” “Number the Stars,” “The Hiding Place,” “Witch of Blackbird Pond,” “Oregon Trail,” “A Lion to Guard Us,” among others and is also learning about more mature things such as the Donner Party. She will be in 5th grade / 10 years old. She is a great reader and can easily read 50-100 or more pages a day.
Books she has read that were among her favorites:
Harry Potter Series
Ramona Quincy Collection
Junie B Jones Collection
Henry Huggins Collection
Who What When” series by WhoHQ - current favorite
I want her to have some just straight FUNNY books to help get her mind thinking about something other than the sad things that have happened in this world and what is happening in this world. But I need them to be age appropriate as well-nothing sexual and no profanity.
Thinking like a kids version of “Bridget Jones Diary.” Or a cleaner version of “Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging.” It can teach no lessons at all and be nonsense - but just be funny.
Thank you!
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Hi there! I started homeschooling my daughter about a month and a half ago. We pulled her from public school, 5th grade. We tried Time4learning and she wasn’t into that, so now we’re on Mia Academy and enjoying that a lot better. But I’m wondering, how much time a day do you spend doing actual curriculum stuff?
For example, we have been going for daily walk and talks. We signed up to volunteer at an animal shelter and go there a couple times a week as she’s interested in being a vet when she grows up. I’ve also been teaching her to cook. She helps choose dinner recipes and helps me cook.
I find that when it’s time to actually sit down to do math or language arts or anything like that she gets discouraged. But when we try to learn things she actually enjoys she’s all in and so happy.
I just want to be sure I’m doing enough for her without overwhelming her or making her hate it. And my main concern is if she decides she doesn’t like homeschooling and wants to go back, I don’t want her to be behind and stressed about that.
I think I’m just overthinking a lot and would love some input from some other homeschool parents.
I just watched a video that was about how Gen alpha cannot read.
As in they have no reading comprehension skills and can't tell you the main point in a paragraph or struggle to read and follow directions on school work.
I am going to start homeschooling my current 2nd grader this year but I have already noticed his reading comprehension is below where it should be just by doing homework with him.
Are your kids having this issue? How do you encourage their reading skills?
How are we managing to homeschool with babies and toddlers around? When we started our homeschool journey 4 years ago I didn’t have any littles. I now have a 14 month old and homeschoolers aged 7, 9, 11, and 14. A lot of their work is independent, but if I have to sit with them a moment it’s so difficult to help with the toddler crawling around and getting into everything. Especially in the dining room where we do most of their work, he climbs up on the table every 5 secs. 😅
I would try during nap time, but he only contact naps. 🙃 so it’s been a challenging year with lots of adjusting and being flexible.
I’ll preface this by saying that I suffer from FOMO when it comes to homeschool curricula. Always have.
I’ve been doing Real Science Odyssey with my almost 9yo for the last couple of years. She has dreams of being a conservation geneticist. We’ve been enjoying RSO, I have no complaints, but I’ve always been worried that I’m not choosing the “right” science curriculum to truly help her achieve her goals, particularly as she gets older. Chronic overthinker.
I’ve been looking at Oak Meadow for quite a long time. But I’m willing to look into ANY suggestions, really, that promote a deep understanding of relevant science disciplines. I don’t mind heavy parent involvement, but I don’t have time to plan every part of a curriculum year after year (BFSU gives me ADHD paralysis every time I try to sit down with it, even with the massive community help).
Any advice, suggestions, etc., would be great.
Any recommendations for a secular 6th grade math curriculum?
My child is enjoying piano, but progress feels pretty gradual. I’m not sure if that’s normal or if I should be adjusting something in how we’re approaching it.
Hi all — not a homeschool family but would love advice from this group. I have a preschool child who doesn't have a lot of confidence around academics. (For example, when I ask her a simple problem like 2+3 that's well within her knowledge base as she adds things on her fingers all the time, she just freezes up and says "I don't know!" without trying.)
In advance of starting school, I'd like to do an informal year of kindergarten "homeschool" — working on some workbooks and lessons for maybe an hour a day just so she's a little more ready and confident going into kindergarten.
I would be very grateful for any recommendations for this group about materials they've used for a robust kindergarten/foundational curriculum — either a holistic course, or one-off materials for different subjects (math, writing, reading, etc).
Open to all formats, though we'd greatly prefer something pen-and-paper vs online.
Thank you so much in advance!
I’m hoping for help choosing curriculum. I have a lazy learner. She’s not motivated to write, or do activities. Will be 8th grade next year. We currently use masterbooks math,IEW grammer(but stopped a few weeks ago) campfire unit studies for the rest.. some days it takes way too much dependence on me for her to do what needs to be done.. I’m burnt out.. we’ve been lagging the last few weeks.
I have an upcoming highneeds kindergartener I will need to put time into, as well as a sweet 3year old who wants to be involved.. I can’t be reviewing my oldests math 30 minutes a day, and then leading her to correct mistakes, 15 minutes of grammer correction and then spending 40 minutes on a campfire read aloud, and then preparing and doing an activity, all while trying to keep the littles happy.. lately they’ve been scrapping it out in the background or being obnoxiously loud and distracting.. my daughter isn’t getting her best work out, I’m feeling overwhelmed and frustrated, and the boys behaviors have gotten out of control..
I need to change the game plan because next year now includes schooling the middle child as well and still my oldest and life in general..
I need mostly hands off curriculum suggestions for lazy bare minimum middle/high students…
We love campfire and it crushes my soul to consider leaving it as she enjoys the readings.. but I can’t keep doing it this way..
I’ve looked into ctc math.. but I think she would mental math it all and refuse to do it right or review the reinforcement part.. her attention span for videos are sub par… idk… she hated ixl in public school and this didn’t look a ton different..
I failed last term after starting school late. However, even at the start of this term, I've been kind of struggling, though I am making plans to try and get back on the right track. But now my mom dropped a bomb on me after she saw that I was behind on some of my work and declared that if I don't do well with my grades at the end of the term in June, I would go back to regular school.
For my mom, good grades are grades above, like 80-85% average minimum. I haven't gotten grades like that since the 3rd or 4th grade, maybe 5th, but no later. I'm in the 10th grade now, and I can say from certainty that I have no confidence that i could even get 10% on any subject right now. I literally know nothing. But I don't want to go back to regular school.
Background: 2 homeschooling families we were close to recently moved away last November. Our entire community collapsed. We ended up putting both kids into Catholic school in January. Also we are home church/parish orphans floating around without a real anchor we go to mass/church service outside where we reside.
Also last November we were kicked out of religious pre school advertised on our homeschooling message board as homeschool friendly which to me means the entire family comes older children as well.. However I was the only mom that brought an older child and the teacher didn’t like him because he acts like a normal energetic boy. (To me he was great with the younger children). (In my post history)
A few years ago I was into a well organized Catholic homeschool co op which we stopped going to because I had a baby it was a traumatic birth. When I tried to re enter they said no because I’m not a member of their parish but I wasn’t before. They didn’t care I went before and had a baby.
Also last fall:
A homeschool religion class was advertised at my parish Catechisis of the Good Shepherd. I signed both my kids up and they came back saying one of my children could get in but not the other. Of course I’m not doing that.
Most recently
I brought my kids to an homeschool event put out there as religion lesson taught by parish priest. I’ve been going to this for SEVEN years. Father spoke to kids for less than 3 minutes said the blessing then released them into chaos to eat pizza. No one sits by us at these events. The veteran moms sit together and the CGS moms sit together none of which ever sit with us or ever include us . I introduced myself to everyone and only got one word replies back from everyone. There’s even a mom who outwardly greets everyone else but not me. Being completely objective here.
I feel like Father should speak to the kids for MORE than a few minutes or have something more structured??? 3 minutes is too short and the kids end up running around the church basement, the Church staff acts like we’re a burden.
Good thing: we also did a wonderful Protestant co op that was great they focused on activities but it is TOO short. My son needed MORE than once a week. They didn’t have activities for my daughter’s age though.
Questions for Reddit: my kids are now in Catholic schools despite me being a very committed homeschooler philosophically. School is best for.our older boy for now it’s actually boys only and embraces energetic boys he’s thriving. I’m comfortable with that. But should I drop this other co op where no one sits with us?
Should I give the board this feedback? To be constructive?
Can I homeschool our youngest while her brother goes to school?
Anybody else have co op or community issue? We have zero family around us so outside community is so important. Heck I just want someone to sit by after SEVEN years.
Thanks for reading if you got this far and any advice or just similar vent?