Blegging Homeschool Vanity

Vanity | October 29, 2003 | Restorer

[Restorer]

Please excuse the vanity.

My daughter has been homeschooled since 2nd grade. She is now 11 and rapidly getting bored with the curriculum we are presently using. It is just too easy.

I would greatly appreciate pointers from other Freepers to resouces that will help her accelerate her learning curve.

Thanks

[JenB]

As a homeschool graduate, let me just say:

Saxon Math. If you don't have it, get it. Use it every day until she's ready for Calculus. There is no better math out there.

[biblewonk]

What academic topics does she like? I read once that the average homeschooled child, mine not included so far, is ready for college at about 15 years old. If she wants to persue education it may be time to finish off a quick highschool diploma and move up. Personally I don't like seeing women get into the career world though. Too often they choose that over full time parenting.

[grobdriver]

Search your area for homeschool-oriented science providers.
We had our daughter in a couple of pograms - physics and chemistry - that were provided by a retired high school teacher who maintained a facility with all the lab stuff.
You could teach the lessons from his lessons guide and send the child to his lab, or he also taught the lesson just before the lab.
We also used another fellow who provided the same service for advanced math - when it got to the point that I couldn't walk her through Calculus proofs, we sent her to him.
"A man's got to recognize his limitations"
And so I did.

[AppyPappy]

Blegging?

[Restorer]

Blegging?

Not completely applicable, I must admit.

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[aardvark1]

Recommend you contact Christian Liberty Academy.

[Ignatz]

We homeschool as well.
This is an excellent resource for molding the well-trained mind.

[Boxsford]

Have you looked at or considered the classical approach? Foreign languages? Music? Robinson Curriculum that involves a great amount of reading good books? Whatever you do, don't consider public schools. It's not the answer.

[mountaineer]

Don't know which program you're using, but my sister is using William Bennett's K12 curriculum with her children in the Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School program, with great success. LINK

[Blood of Tyrants]

There is absolutely no reason to hold her back. Believe it or not, even so-called "high school" level books are written on about a 6th or 7th grade level. Why not increase the level of her cirriculum by about 3 years? She is just the right age to fill her brain with all sorts of stuff.

Also, let her pick the cirriculum and the books she wants to get into.

[proxy_user]

Teach her Latin and Greek. Reading Homer and Sophocles, Virgil and Cicero in the original languages is not 'too easy'.

[SuziQ]

Check out the TRISMS curriculum. It will be as hard as she wants it to be. It involves the student doing research in the areas studied. In the middle school program, it can be stretched over a two year period (there's enough material, believe me). It includes all subjects except Math, for which they recommend Saxon. When she's finished with "History Makers", she can go into their high school curriculum. The high school curriculum also does not include Math, and you can add the Hard sciences and Foreign language courses she would need for college entrance requirements.

If she enjoys reading about lots of stuff, this would be great for her. And the lesson plans are all laid out, so once you get her used to the set-up, your day to day job will be checking work and giving tests. Your main concern will be making sure she has the books she needs, either from your own reference library, or the public library.

[Concerto in D]

I agree. Christian Liberty Academy is one of the best I've used. Their Literature and History textbooks are great!

[Zogby]

My brother is Senior VP at K12. I plan on using K12 as soon as we have a school aged child.

[dawn53]

We have a college program that lots of homeschoolers use (you have to be finished with your 9th grade work, so most kids start around 15).

Here's a link:

http://www.spcollege.edu/ac/dc/#DC

[biblewonk]

Interesting, thanks.

[momOFsix]

I have an 11 yr. old daughter, too. She is currently doing Saxon Calculus, Apologia Biology, Rosetta Stone Spanish, etc. I agree with the other poster who said to bump her up a few grades. My philosophy is that if they can handle it, give it to them! If you challenge them all along, when they get to college it will be easy. My oldest started full time at a university on a full-ride scholarship when he was 15 yrs. old. He graduated with honors with a degree in electrical engineering when he was 18 yrs. old. He always tells people that homeschool work was harder than college.

[Rainmist]

What is Saxon math ??

[GovernmentShrinker]

An early start on the career makes it a lot easier to do both -- first career, then full time parenting.