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too much school work
Sawyer has decided that he has too much school work to do. I agree, he took on a pretty heavy load this year, but I don’t think it’s “too much.” I have to constantly remind myself that he is not quite FIFTEEN which means that (big breath) even though I went over, and over, and OVER all of this stuff with him before I bought any of this year’s homeschooling materials, I REALLY should NOT have based any of my descisions on his input. Now I’m frustrated and he’s frustrated. The kicker for me was when he, yes HE, planned out his year to include geometry, algebra II, biology, chemistry, Spanish and early 19th century British literature ~ on top of the Beautiful Feet Books Ancient History I told him we were going to do this year.
One of his chief complaints with history is that he doesn’t understand why he has to spend so much time studying something he couldn’t care less about. That’s definitely not the attitude toward history that we’ve tried to foster in him. I’m disappointed, and concerned, that this is the attitude he’s showing these days.
So, I guess I’m going to have to re-think what we’re doing for history this year. When the kids were little we did a lot of delight-directed learning and unit studies. I’ll have to look into that again. Maybe we can come up with a plan to complete world history this year without having to start over after Christmas break ~ I definitely don’t want to have to buy a new curriculum.
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Homeschooling is all about tweaking, tweaking, tweaking. LOL
Homeschooling is all about tweaking, tweaking, tweaking. LOL
My oldest son did TONS of Beautiful Feet guides and LOVED them. I consider them the cornerstone of his high school education (he’s now 21-years-old and no longer at home). My second son (16) totally doesn’t “get” them – he says the questions don’t go with the books, etc. I know my sons won’t ever see this, but I consider the 16-year-old to be smarter than the 21-year-old. They obviously just learn and process in a different way.
Streams of Civilization uses a different format – more textbookish – and there is an available test book and answer key. That may be a route to consider. I think we’re going to have to switch to it, because this year is another failed BF attempt for us.
D ~ the funny thing is, after 13 years of homeschooling you’d think that tweaking would be minor. Nope! This is a major biggie ~ especially since I spent quite a bit of time tracking down some hard-to-find out-of-print books that BFB uses in this history unit. I doubt now we’ll be using them ~ maybe I should try to resell them on Amazon?!
Dawn, one of the books Sawyer is using for this history unit is Streams of Civilization. I’m glad you mentioned it, since Sawyer and I are going to sit down tomorrow and go over exactly what he will be expected to complete before Christmas vacation, and what we’re going to do 2nd semester. We’ll look at Streams of Civilization as one of our options.