Last summer, as I planned our 6th year of homeschooling, I got a little scared because I was putting together our first year of truly custom plans. I wasn’t using a boxed curriculum for our together subjects. I trusted myself to know what had worked over the previous 5 years of homeschool but I still doubted if what I planned would be exciting to the kids or cause a mutiny.
Our homeschool day officially starts at 9 am, when the Google Home plays our gathering song, “Good Morning” (from Singing in the Rain) and turns the classroom lights on. Gotta love customized Google Routines. Before Google tells us to gather, everyone is on their own to get dressed and eat breakfast. I am often the last one to come downstairs and usually eat while everyone plays LEGOs. Sometimes if the weather is suitable at least one child will go play outside before we start as well.
His birthday is the first week of school, and he would be one of the youngest in a traditional classroom, but that doesn’t matter in our classroom. We make lots of accommodations for his Autism and ADHD as part of our routine.
He started demanding his own “school” at 3 (to be like the big kids, of course) so I complied with a preschool program for him. Here we are, 4 years later, starting 1st grade. He is the only one who has never been in a traditional classroom.
The flexibility to meet her where she is at is part if the beauty of homeschooling. This girl started it all when she was taking chapter books with her to her public school Kindergarten class.
