Cieslak's Homeschool-journey
It's all about the fun, the craziness, the things we learn and our thoughts!!!
It is unbelievable, but we finished our last day of the school year. When we started last August, I wasn't sure how things would go, and how I would manage, but I am not regretting the decision at all, especially with the way the world is changing and what children have to deal with nowadays, and I feel like not only have we learned a lot during the last 9 1/2 months, we are also closer as a family. Of course we still have our struggles and fights and arguments, but I feel like we have learned to love spending time together and even our boys seem to be getting along great (most of the time at least) and have become real good buddies. I love it. Our school room has also changed quite a bit compared to when we started out last year. Our walls have filled up with maps, art work and posters and our timeline has also changed since we have added many different famous people, or events, from the past. Classroom before (beginning of the school year): Classroom after (end of the school year): And of course here are also pictures of our boys, at the beginning of the school year and a picture of them from today. :) We are excited for our well-deserved summer break, but we are also determined to keep up certain learning habits during the summer, like reading and math exercises. We also have a few more weeks of spelling words/ tests left, since we started those a few weeks after the school year started (I had to get used to our new schedule and different teaching style's and curriculums). I have to say it will be strange not to have our set daily routine over the summer months, but I am very grateful that things worked out so well, and I am already excited for the new school year. It was so much fun to learn so many cool and interesting things and I know more fun is going to await us in the school year of 2017/2018.
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Marion Wolfert
6/14/2017 08:20:16 pm
Wonderful Rebecca, keep up the good work. David's wife Tanji home taught her boys while in Alaska and in the Philippines and it has worked out great for them and three of the boys graduated with excellent grades from High School. I guess they were "tested". In Utah home schooling is a big thing now. More and more mothers are engaged in it. Tell you the truth, I don't think I would have had the discipline to do it, but when our kids were little, hardly any one did home schooling.
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