Homeschool

When Tevon was in Kindergarden I fell in love with his school. His Kindergarden teacher was wonderful. Well to put it nicely, I'm not exactly "in love" with the school this year. Some things have improved but some things have gone wrong. Top that with the fact that Tevon has been having some health issues, and it's just not a good year. They have not been and helpful and understanding as I thought they would be.

This upcoming year, 2012, will either turn out to be ok or it could be a horrible, scary year. Because of this I am debating on whether or not to homeschool Tevon until we can figure out all his health issues. I can see pro's and con's to both ways. See, he is in catholic school and it costs a lot of money to send him there and we are afraid he may not be in school for the whole year. We still have to pay whether he is there or not because we will sign a contract. If i homeschool him, he will still get social interaction through Cub Scouts, as long as he can attend, and hopefully basketball next winter, as long as he is okay health wise when it comes time. I guess I will pray about this for the next week or two.

Tonight we did a little "practice homeschool". He was really struggling with his spelling words this week.
We wrote them in triangles, typed them on the computer, wrote them out on paper, and my favorite, wrote them in shaving cream. It was really fun for him and really easy for me. I covered a cookie sheet with plastic wrap and sprayed on the shaving cream. When he was done, you simply, unwrap the plastic wrap and throw it in the garbage. I washed the cookie sheet just because I'm a germaphobe but it really did not get anything on it. I love to find new, unconventional ways for him to learn where he is having fun. The lesson seems to stick a lot better too.

I seen a version of the on Pinterest a few weeks ago. They put shaving cream in a ziplock bag (because they had a baby and toddler) and a little food coloring. Then they Used a q-tip to write/ or draw in the shaving cream through the bag. I wanted a bigger writing space so I put it on a cookie sheet and left out the food coloring so his fingers wouldn't turn colors.

We also have a continuos math lesson going. To practice money, he had to "pay" for snacks and drinks and anything else I can think of at the time. He has a box with some change in it. I'll give him the "cost" and he has to lay out the change to the amount. Once he gets it right, he gets whatever he was wanting and gets to keep the money for next time.