im really interested in home schooling but im not sure if i want to change. does anyone know whats its like to be homeschooled and what a usual day is like?
2006-10-01 12:14:29 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
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2006-10-01 12:16:47 · answer #1 · answered by Sekkennight 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love homeschooling. There's way less social pressure and you can always join a homeschooling program, where they offer classes once or twice a week. The environment is much more friendly and open than normal schools. I go to classes once a week; in a usual day I'll get some work done at my own pace, when I want to. Then I have the rest of the day off to do whatever. It's great, as long as you don't put off all of the work to the last minute. Then you're screwed, but so long as you have some self-dicipline, then you'll be fine. You should try it for a while. If you don't like it (I think some people are better off in regular school) then you can always go back.
2006-10-01 13:02:13 · answer #2 · answered by cellogirl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My children are 13, 12, 6 and 3. My two oldest were in private school until we started homeschooling 5 years ago. They have no desire to go back to school. As for socialization, my children have a fuller social life now than when they were in school. We are usually finished with our school work by lunchtime. Birthdays are holidays and we can take our vacations whenever we decide to. If someone is sick or has a dental appointment and can't do their schoolwork, they don't get behind. If they want to move ahead in their studies, they can. We take fieldtrips with our homeschool group or as a family. Our local bowling alley has homeschool bowling day and it's cheap. All of these extra things are dependant on us getting our required 41/2 hours of schooling for 180 days a year. We usually start a little earlier than the public school system so we have the freedom to do these extras. Those are just a few of the benefits. Just like anything else worth doing, homeschooling has it's challenges.Do lots of research before you make your decision. There's lots of good info online. Good Luck and many many blessings! P~
2006-10-02 07:40:25 · answer #3 · answered by Psalm91 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter is only 9 years old but she has never been to school.
We do school work in the mornings and that usually takes about two hours and then we have the rest of the day free. I don't mind which subjects she does first, but I like her to complete her Math, Language, Spelling, Poetry & Social Studies every day.
I do know that she is keeping up to her friends who go to school and we only do 2 hours a day and no home-work!
She has never been teased in the school yard or bullied on the school bus, she has never had a teacher who disliked her.
When she is learning something new, I work with her until I know she understands it, and then she works by herself. If she has a problem I can deal with it immediately.
Other things that she is interested in reading about she can take as long as she likes. In the winter we skii once a week, ice skate on Wednesday mornings, visit friends who also homeschool, volunteer in our community, go swimming at the YMCA, go to the park, work in the garden, watch TV (History channel or A&E) generally do whatever we want.
2006-10-01 14:20:59 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My school day begins with studying something that has to do with either history,geography,or science,and that is either watching videos,reading books,or writing reports.When I have done that,I get on the computer and do language arts using switched on schoolhouse,then I do two lessons of Saxon math.Then I get off the computer,and do bible study and writing one page of anything I want to practice penmanship and grammar.It all takes about 2 to 2 and a half hours.When I'm done,and play on the computer,read books,or work on books that I am writing.I would never want to go to public school,cause sitting in a classroom with 30 other students for6 hours just doesn't sound fun. I also spend the night with my best friend if I can.I go to art class once a week,and I use email,IM,and cellphones to talk with my BF if I can't see her.
2006-10-02 05:33:14 · answer #5 · answered by thepinkbookworm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its up to you, your skills and your time and how fast you want a child to progress.
I can teach all day, with only a book here and there to brush me up. I can incorproate history, English, science and math into a few hours work and leave a kid knowing how to do something.
The best teaching shows exampes, gives hands one and shows you something important.
In my current book on video technology for the masses, my back section is all the dry stuff. The front section is about buying and using a video camera, but the back stuff is all the background.
So I started with the Ancient Chinese and Greeks, with loadstones, iron and amber. With glass blowing and refraction and then come foward and hit on each electronic or optical component down the history line.
The leyden Jar, Franklins kit experiment. All the biggies in history. Farady, Ohm, Watt. Then I incorporated Roget and his dissertation on Persistance of vision, silver and the photographic process. How every woman knows silver turns dark with age and time and how a chemical restores it's lustre.
How the first music "videos" were made by Edison in 1894, a good 70 years before MTV.
When I finish with you you have a complete science course in the basics of chemistry, magnetisim, electricity, electronics. You know who the main men and women were. You know what connected to what to make the TV set happen.
Then I get into how the TV set works, which introduces you to SINE, COSINE, engineering for simplicity, how you get full color out of two colors, why a piggy backed or hetrodyne signal is, why the digital connection is best, the S-video is next best and those yellow, white and reds are only so-so.
You walk away with a mini-BA degree in 3 chapters.
I give you history, science, math principals and literature in 10,000 words.
Takes 3 hours to read it.
You come away understanding why we have 120 V 60 cycle AC current in the US and why Europe has 240 v 50 cycle current.
YOu come away with an understanding as to why SINE is important in the world.
You come away learning that a magnet on the refrigerator is something the Chinese knew about thousands of years ago and if they had given things more though they would have also made refrigerators! The knowledge was there, they just didn't make the connection!
The refrigerator could have happened 5,000 years ago if man had only "played" more with magnets.
The refrigierator, TV set and computer are the combined knowledge of 20 or 30 men spread over 5,000 years and one person who saw the potentials of all of what they discovered and it all came through the written work and reading it.
That is what you have to instill in a child.
Part of how you do it is by knowing something of it yourself. Going to museums and seeing things in action. Going to Radio Shack or Edmunds scinetific, spending a few bucks and seeing how things work, then reading about the background.
Science, math, history and literature all come together, but it takes a trained mind to see the potentials.
Any idiot can memorize facts and data.
It takes a thinker to see the future by learning the past.
Schools take 17 - 20 years to do this and they fail 90% of the time, producing only people who memorize and can then repeat or teach.
10% of the people that come out of Graduate Schools actually produce!
A good home school can cut this time line in half.
Once upon a time the Isaac Newton's of this world were actually out producing things by the age of 23, today we keep them in school until almost age 30 and most can't produce nothing.
When I design a book, like my one on video, it's a complete BA course in Cinema with a lot of other scholastic elements built in, becasue they work hand in hand. If you can't do math, you can't budget a film.
The average high shool graduate should be able to teach up to at least grade 9.
The average college graduate should be able to teach up to at least grade 13
If you can't motivate and teach, then you better leave it up to professionals.
The idea behind homeschooling is you know you can do a better job.
2006-10-01 19:08:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Home-schooling is pretty okay if you like to be by yourself and not be bothered with a whole lot of drama. But, you get to go on field trips and you can kind of like do what you want, like you can sit around all day and not do anything until late. It's really cool! You should try it out, and visit www.ohdela.net
2006-10-01 17:11:57 · answer #7 · answered by itsphaya2u 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have been to public school, home schooled, and done virtual school online. Of the three, virtual school has been my favorite and I would most definitely recommend it to anyone who does not enjoy the public school atmosphere, but does not have that ambition or discipline to teach themselves.
Homeschooling can be a great way to learn. Wake up later, work in your pj's and work ahead when you want. The perks of homeschooling are comfort and convenience. You can work at your own pace, and wherever you see most comfortable. Grab one of your school books and study at Starbucks! There is also no need to rush, if you are excellent in English, but slower in math you can get ahead in those subjects you enjoy, while taking your time with others.
You can order your curriculum online and teach yourself, (although this is difficult because you need to create your own transcript when graduating high school) or you can work in a distance learning program. Distance learning is where you are technically a student of a school, but you do your work at home. Your work is sent into the school and report cards are sent back to you. Some programs you may want to look at for more information are Sonlight, and Christian Liberty. For any information of homeschooling. HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association) is a helpful site.
Virtual School, I find easier than home schooling for many reasons. You are able to access your lessons, turn in your work and recieve your grades without leaving the comfort of your computer desk. Assignments can consist of work documents, multiple choice, essay questions, power point presentations, etc. For those of you that enjoy working with computers, or find it easier that writing by hand, this is for you. I would recommend that you check out FLVS (www.flvs.net). It is Florida Virtual School. It is free for Florida residents. You have an actual teacher that you call once a month to discuss your progress. They are available by phone, email, and IM for any questions you have concerning your work. It is really an excellent way to learn and I have enjoyed it immensley.
(Feel free to email me if you have any other questions regarding homeschooling or virtual schooling)
A normal day for homeschool may be
Wake up, shower, your morning routine (breakfast, etc)
Grab your books and study (repeat per class)
Take any tests, or complete assignments,
Break for lunch
continue studying, reading, until you have accomplished your days work.
Do whatever!
Virtual School Day-
Morning Routine
Log in to your "classroom"
Go to your lessons page and study the material
Go to your assignment page and turn in the assignment based on the lesson. (repeat per class)
Lunch
Study
Your Done!
2006-10-01 14:14:06 · answer #8 · answered by short n sweet 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everyone is different, mine is like this:
8am Feed pets
9am Begin school
11am Break to play and have morning tea
12noon Computer and art activities
1pm Lunch
2pm Resume school
4pm end school
2006-10-01 14:51:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well its kinda boring and you don't get to see your friends, and your really lucky if you get a good teacher, who doesn't want to give you alot of home-work, because their are no after school activities, so they think you have alot of time on your hands, for me i liked it at first, but when you are out of school for awhile you end up losing your friends and in most place you do not graduate with your class.
2006-10-01 12:55:18 · answer #10 · answered by connie m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's great! when you home school you feel free. You can go places when you would normally be in school and just do it later. our home school sends us the stuff we need and the rest is on the computer (I guess its actually a charter school). I hope this helps!!
2006-10-01 12:30:10 · answer #11 · answered by Doglover94 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋