Mr. Stebbing's company is called How Great Thou ART and I would definitely recommend this program to other homeschooling families around the country!
Friday, October 7, 2011
How Great Thou ART
The girls & I spent the first 3 days this week at an art camp taught by a man named Barry Stebbing. He's a Christian artist who travels around teaching homeschoolers art basics (drawing, shading, color blending, painting, etc) with some art history added in...all from a Biblical perspective. It's an INTENSE three days, especially for a 6 year old, but overall well worth the investment of both time & money for both of our girls!
Mr. Stebbing's company is called How Great Thou ART and I would definitely recommend this program to other homeschooling families around the country!
Mr. Stebbing's company is called How Great Thou ART and I would definitely recommend this program to other homeschooling families around the country!
Saturday, October 1, 2011
That Didn't Take Long
I started this school year full of excitement & anticipation of what homeschooling was going to be like for our family. I had illusions of grandeur filling my mind.
Thankfully, I really wasn't completely deluding myself. Although I was REALLY hoping to blog daily or at least a few days/week about our adventures, and that clearly hasn't happened...we're a month in and the girls are showing HUGE progress! I is at ease...she has a peace about her that I haven't seen in her in years. What a blessing! Her academics are on track and she's actually ASKING to do additional projects like book reports! YAY! M is flying through her work at a rapid speed. It's amazing how much 1st grade curriculum you can cover when there's only 1 child to teach! She has such a strong grasp of the material she may even advance to 2nd grade work before this school year is complete. I'm finding this to be one of my favorite aspects to home education...the lessons can tailor to the individual child as opposed to the middle of the road student in an over-crowded classroom.
Admittedly, we're still figuring out what homeschooling looks like in our home. We've been pretty regimented thus far, following the curriculum daily, but we're looking to expand our horizons to include more field trips & hands on activities. That will no doubt be a welcome enrichment to the current routine! Of course, there's going to be a 2 week shift while Sam & I travel to Ghana to visit our children there & file their USCIS paperwork. I & M will spend that time with their grandparents. We (the kids & I) have discussed it quite a bit, and decided that rather than lugging all of their workbooks & all of the teacher's guides to Grandma's, they'll take their Bible & Math with them and work on independent study projects for History, Science & Language Arts. I am excited to see how they do on those when we return.
Odds are, I won't blog again until our return from Africa...so until then, God bless!
Thankfully, I really wasn't completely deluding myself. Although I was REALLY hoping to blog daily or at least a few days/week about our adventures, and that clearly hasn't happened...we're a month in and the girls are showing HUGE progress! I is at ease...she has a peace about her that I haven't seen in her in years. What a blessing! Her academics are on track and she's actually ASKING to do additional projects like book reports! YAY! M is flying through her work at a rapid speed. It's amazing how much 1st grade curriculum you can cover when there's only 1 child to teach! She has such a strong grasp of the material she may even advance to 2nd grade work before this school year is complete. I'm finding this to be one of my favorite aspects to home education...the lessons can tailor to the individual child as opposed to the middle of the road student in an over-crowded classroom.
Admittedly, we're still figuring out what homeschooling looks like in our home. We've been pretty regimented thus far, following the curriculum daily, but we're looking to expand our horizons to include more field trips & hands on activities. That will no doubt be a welcome enrichment to the current routine! Of course, there's going to be a 2 week shift while Sam & I travel to Ghana to visit our children there & file their USCIS paperwork. I & M will spend that time with their grandparents. We (the kids & I) have discussed it quite a bit, and decided that rather than lugging all of their workbooks & all of the teacher's guides to Grandma's, they'll take their Bible & Math with them and work on independent study projects for History, Science & Language Arts. I am excited to see how they do on those when we return.
Odds are, I won't blog again until our return from Africa...so until then, God bless!
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