Father against homeschooling
Wendy Silver
Hello,
My husband and family were all of the "ok, we will give you a year to
prove what you can do"I tend to be more of an unschooler, but to start,
things were more structured, because my husband was nervous about this
choice. I did actual papers as a routine, and tested after the first year,
so he could see the results. Although, I never purchased a packaged
curriculum, we picked up math workbooks, and reading books. Then, I ordered
an iowa test and spent a week teaching to the test.
The test results in the areas that were structured daily, math and reading
were the lowest scores on the test, but they were still acceptable. The
areas I never attempted to teach were off the charts. The entire time we
were doing the test, I was annoyed at wasting our time, but I just did it to
prove that my daughter can learn at home to a skeptic.
I guess my point is that to me it was very important to homeschool, and I
had to compromise for the benefit of my husband, but now, year three, he
seems to be much more relaxed about the entire thing. He still occasionally
wonders about our decision,but he is satisfied that they are learning, and
now we both have more of an unschooling philosophy. Also, he is the first to
defend our homeschool decision when people question it.
If your husband would feel more comfortable with a curriculum, maybe you
could look for a loosely structured,little time consuming one, ie., FIVE IN
A ROW-read classic stories available at the library-then the author gives
suggestions how to apply the story to the different subjects.
Wendy
wew99@...
My husband and family were all of the "ok, we will give you a year to
prove what you can do"I tend to be more of an unschooler, but to start,
things were more structured, because my husband was nervous about this
choice. I did actual papers as a routine, and tested after the first year,
so he could see the results. Although, I never purchased a packaged
curriculum, we picked up math workbooks, and reading books. Then, I ordered
an iowa test and spent a week teaching to the test.
The test results in the areas that were structured daily, math and reading
were the lowest scores on the test, but they were still acceptable. The
areas I never attempted to teach were off the charts. The entire time we
were doing the test, I was annoyed at wasting our time, but I just did it to
prove that my daughter can learn at home to a skeptic.
I guess my point is that to me it was very important to homeschool, and I
had to compromise for the benefit of my husband, but now, year three, he
seems to be much more relaxed about the entire thing. He still occasionally
wonders about our decision,but he is satisfied that they are learning, and
now we both have more of an unschooling philosophy. Also, he is the first to
defend our homeschool decision when people question it.
If your husband would feel more comfortable with a curriculum, maybe you
could look for a loosely structured,little time consuming one, ie., FIVE IN
A ROW-read classic stories available at the library-then the author gives
suggestions how to apply the story to the different subjects.
Wendy
wew99@...
amy mathews
five in a row is great "curriculum" it uses simple stories and creative ideas to "teach" math, science, history ect.
we love it
and consider it the only acceptable unschooling curriculum because if the children are very interested in a place, or time period, or subject we can look it up in one of the five in a row books and get a book from the library and start "learning"
it also proves to be a good "resource" for skeptics because the family that writes it are long time teachers.
even the bible lessons are included along with great map skills
every year I loosely go over the manual and choose a few for reading aloud.
Amy
we love it
and consider it the only acceptable unschooling curriculum because if the children are very interested in a place, or time period, or subject we can look it up in one of the five in a row books and get a book from the library and start "learning"
it also proves to be a good "resource" for skeptics because the family that writes it are long time teachers.
even the bible lessons are included along with great map skills
every year I loosely go over the manual and choose a few for reading aloud.
Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: Wendy Silver
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:20 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Father against homeschooling
Hello,
My husband and family were all of the "ok, we will give you a year to
prove what you can do"I tend to be more of an unschooler, but to start,
things were more structured, because my husband was nervous about this
choice. I did actual papers as a routine, and tested after the first year,
so he could see the results. Although, I never purchased a packaged
curriculum, we picked up math workbooks, and reading books. Then, I ordered
an iowa test and spent a week teaching to the test.
The test results in the areas that were structured daily, math and reading
were the lowest scores on the test, but they were still acceptable. The
areas I never attempted to teach were off the charts. The entire time we
were doing the test, I was annoyed at wasting our time, but I just did it to
prove that my daughter can learn at home to a skeptic.
I guess my point is that to me it was very important to homeschool, and I
had to compromise for the benefit of my husband, but now, year three, he
seems to be much more relaxed about the entire thing. He still occasionally
wonders about our decision,but he is satisfied that they are learning, and
now we both have more of an unschooling philosophy. Also, he is the first to
defend our homeschool decision when people question it.
If your husband would feel more comfortable with a curriculum, maybe you
could look for a loosely structured,little time consuming one, ie., FIVE IN
A ROW-read classic stories available at the library-then the author gives
suggestions how to apply the story to the different subjects.
Wendy
wew99@...
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