pre-k, kindergarten

[pecangrove]

When you first started schooling your child/ren, how old were they and how many hours a day did you do it? Did you start off as a pre-k type of schedule, where you did an hour or 2 a day, a few days a week, or did you go into a full 3-4 hr days, 5 days a week?
Thanks!:wave:

[Dianna]

I've homeschooled all of my children from the start (they've never been to school). For pre-K and K years, I didn't do anything different than I did all along - I read to them, went places together, talked, played, etc. We didn't do any structured learning until 1st grade, and then just for a few things. It took just an hour or so each day for the structured subjects.

Dianna

[MomsTherapy]

It is funny, I am starting my second year and realizing that structure isn't all that important, the LEARNING is! All the structure was just making us both more and more frustrated. Workbooks are such a bore!

My only questions (yeah right) is how to keep a journal of talking about things in the car - do you just keep a notebook and jot down anytime you have a "school talk" and then classify it to a subject at night when you transfer all of your "jots" to a journal/schedule?

More on the question at hand, my daughter went to "enrichment" classes before I started homeschooling and it was 8-12 MWF. So, I imagine if you take out the recess, lunch, pottybreaks, standing in line, etc and focus on time they actually spent learning you would be left with 1-2 hours a day maybe 3-4 days a week. I think for kindergarten, one on one with you - that is plenty, but that is my opinion. :smile2:

[Dianna]

My only questions (yeah right) is how to keep a journal of talking about things in the car - do you just keep a notebook and jot down anytime you have a "school talk" and then classify it to a subject at night when you transfer all of your "jots" to a journal/schedule?

Yes, you can keep one of those small flip notebooks (what are they called?) in your purse and jot things down as you go throughout the day. Or you can rely on your memory. Either way, just transfer them to your journal at the end of the day or week. I keep a weekly journal on my PC and transfer things over at the end of the week.

Dianna