Just Getting Through It
When my four-year-old began to express a sincere interest in completing home-school activities of his own, I figured it was time to order him his own curriculum from the same cyber school that my older son attends. At first , he was very excited to being learning like his big brother, but now I feel like we are just trying to get through it.
The curriculum I chose has activities to do on the computer, including short videos and educational games. These online activities are mixed in with offline activities that include experiments, stories, and yes, some worksheets. (The worksheets are how the teachers at the cyber school are able to evaluate his progress.)
Unlike other home-school curriculums, this online curriculum must be completed in order. We are able to skip activities that teach or reinforce skills he already knows, but it does not have the flexibility I am used to. My son has also begun to resist completing the activities, and, at four-years-old, I don’t want him to have his first home-schooling experiences to be negative.
I know he is learning with this curriculum, and the mix of online and offline activities is a good fit for him. I just wish it didn’t feel like we were going through a checklist of activities so that we could get to the end. I wish there were a way to tailor it more to his personal needs, but I haven’t yet figured out how to do that. I don’t want to drop the curriculum completely, but I have to find a way to make this one work better for our family before my son and I both get frustrated.
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Written by Laura on December 30, 2011
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