When Evan first started learning to read we did word lists and rhyming word book. He loved it, it was fun, and it helped. After a while though, it became a hindrance. He didn’t want to do the books, the lists of words bugged him, and he showed this by purposely reading simple things wrong [...]
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I don’t often talk about it, but my freshman year of high school I was home schooled for most of the year. It was only for that one year, though I would have preferred to stay at home for the rest of high school. Still what I learned in that one [...]
Having a niece that is only 2 months older than Evan and in preschool sometimes leaves the door open to comparisons. As she is learning to write her letters there have been some comments about how Evan hasn’t even begun to draw lines and circles, much less attempt to create the marks needed for letters. [...]
I’m the kind of girl who gives in to peer pressure. First I saw this posted over at Relaxed Homeskool and Schoolless, and then Doc mentioned it. And now I have no choice but to join in the fun.
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