Wouldn't you know? The lovely mama who runs Catholic Mothers Online (see my pretty side bar?) is the same Angie from CHILD, my Catholic homeschool group!
Now I feel like I know someone famous :P
Showing posts with label CHILD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CHILD. Show all posts
July 6, 2008
June 18, 2008
The 2008-2009 school year will be our first year homeschooling. I had always wanted to homeschool, from the time Bailey was just a wee lil' lass, but my husband was never very keen on the idea. When we began our conversion process he was very insistent on enrolling her in the nearest Catholic school for pre-school (20 minutes away!! In another county!!) But since I have a tendency to hog the pants in the family, I decided to acquiesce to request in support of him actually making a decision for once. She attended 2 years of pre-K and Kindergarten there, and while we liked the school, it just made no financial sense to continue. Tuition was $205 a month, and driving that far twice a day added another $200 or so just in gas. Plus uniform fees, lunches, and all the extra things that cropped up. I can't believe we actually managed to send her that long, when we only make around 28K a year! We live right next to an elementary school (quite literally, it's like a 2 minute walk), but neither of us are comfortable with public school for a variety of reasons (like the total disregard for parental rights). So YAY my husband agrees to give homeschooling a chance, thanks in large part to finding a great Catholic homeschool group.
Mostly I'm excited and confident, but it's peppered with moments of absolute terror! (I tend to be anxious and high-strung, have you noticed?) Will I give her too much work, or not enough? Too hard or too easy? Will she be a socially inept pariah or will she crack under the strain of so many extracurricular activities?
*breathe*
I'm sure we'll be fine. Right?
Mostly I'm excited and confident, but it's peppered with moments of absolute terror! (I tend to be anxious and high-strung, have you noticed?) Will I give her too much work, or not enough? Too hard or too easy? Will she be a socially inept pariah or will she crack under the strain of so many extracurricular activities?
*breathe*
I'm sure we'll be fine. Right?
May 2, 2008
CHILD Co-op
In preparation for our foray into homeschooling for the 08-09 school year, I started attending the local Catholic homeschool group (CHILD- Catholic Homeschoolers in the Lafayette Diocese). I'm always nervous in new groups, especially Catholic groups. I'm a new convert, I'm young, I'm working-class, I have visible tatoos...
But they're a really great group of women, very friendly and welcoming. The monthly meeting is a support type event for the moms to discuss curriculum (curricula?) and various other aspects of homeschooling. They're starting a co-op for the upcoming school year, so Wednesday we met for that. I'm excited about it! Right now the plan is to meet every other week for 3 hours. So far we are for sure offering conversational Spanish (taught by two native speakers), art, drama, and music. And for middle school age some type of lit analysis taught by a mother who is pursuing her PhD in the subject. We'll also have a nursery and pre-K activities. Thankfully we were all in agreement that there should not be a potty trained requirement for the pre-K group (we'll just have the moms come change diapers if they're little one neeeds), so I can put dd2 there. Because of her delays I'm not sure how it will go but the mom who's in charge had made a point to say we shouldn't feel bound by the grades and should feel free to put our kids wherever we thought they'd do well. So dd1 will be 1st grade but can probably do some of the 2nd-4th grade classes since she's pretty bright, and dd2 can go between the nursery and pre-k depending on how she does and what exactly pre-k is doing. The nursery is going to be packed, we realized we have about 20 kids nursery age!
I'm sure by the time we start we'll have much more. Dh was relieved when I found the group, he's been unsure about homeschooling largely because he was concerned dd1 wouldn't get enough socialization.
But they're a really great group of women, very friendly and welcoming. The monthly meeting is a support type event for the moms to discuss curriculum (curricula?) and various other aspects of homeschooling. They're starting a co-op for the upcoming school year, so Wednesday we met for that. I'm excited about it! Right now the plan is to meet every other week for 3 hours. So far we are for sure offering conversational Spanish (taught by two native speakers), art, drama, and music. And for middle school age some type of lit analysis taught by a mother who is pursuing her PhD in the subject. We'll also have a nursery and pre-K activities. Thankfully we were all in agreement that there should not be a potty trained requirement for the pre-K group (we'll just have the moms come change diapers if they're little one neeeds), so I can put dd2 there. Because of her delays I'm not sure how it will go but the mom who's in charge had made a point to say we shouldn't feel bound by the grades and should feel free to put our kids wherever we thought they'd do well. So dd1 will be 1st grade but can probably do some of the 2nd-4th grade classes since she's pretty bright, and dd2 can go between the nursery and pre-k depending on how she does and what exactly pre-k is doing. The nursery is going to be packed, we realized we have about 20 kids nursery age!
I'm sure by the time we start we'll have much more. Dh was relieved when I found the group, he's been unsure about homeschooling largely because he was concerned dd1 wouldn't get enough socialization.
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