-=> Quoting Jessica Edwards to Alinda Harrison <=-
 -=> Quoting Alinda Harrison to Sharon Davis <=-
 
 AH> Right now, I'm getting ready to convert the room in our garage that my
 AH> sister-in-law just moved out of into a "library/classroom". I figure
 AH> that will
 AH> give them more of a sense of "school" and help them to focus. Eleanor
 AH> is particularly excited about the idea because we will be moving her
 AH> desk, which has been buried due to lack of space in the house, into
 AH> there to use as a table. It's a big metal office type desk that my
 AH> husband pulled out of the dumpster at work a few years ago. It's
 AH> amazing the things that just get thrown
 AH> out! 
 AH> ...peace...
 AH> Alinda Sue...
 I know what you mean.  We went through the house and found a few things
 to convert over.  Once you start looking you became pretty glad you
 didn't throw some things out.
 JE> Alinda,
 JE> When you are ready for some painting help...hollar!!  Naomi is
 JE> getting bored now....She knows it is almost time for school and
 JE> right now I think all the kids in the neighborhood are boring her to
 JE> tears!! So some painting help just might be the thing :)
 JE> I went to School Daze with my cousin (she teaches Preschool at her
 JE> church in Oregon, and was amazed at the stuff here...she plans to
 JE> come and buy much more here next year!!)...anyway I bought a small
 JE> USA map, Alphabet (which is now up in the hallway and on the
 JE> bathroom door), a write/wipe small board, and a couple of books..one
 JE> is Kindergarden review and the other is numbers 1-20.  She will
 JE> enjoy those and I plan to buy more stuff in Sept.
 JE> Jessica
 Yes my children have already asked if they could start school Friday,
 that would be tommorrow.  We hung up maps (still need one of Michigan)
 and a write/wipe board (a fairly big one since I have 3 children to
 teach).  I just mite do that.  I figure maybe what we would do is
 make class rules together and talk about what I expect and what they
 should expect from themselves.  I did not buy much although it did
 cost close to 100 bucks.  I bought three workbooks and art supplies,
 including paper and pencils and special paper to learn cursive.  My
 8 year old son brought home ditto's on cursive so we will use that.
 My main concern will be to get them to understand to work at their
 own pace, especially since I have twins in the same grade level and
 one is really academically intelligent.  I will have to get my 8 year
 old son to understand not to compete with her and vise versa.  We will
 be reading alot out of a religious book designed close to their age.
 I will also use that to show them two aspects of science and social
 studies.  I still need to buy my 11 year old the speech program he
 needs possibly this week, but it probably won't come in for a month (it
 is a special order thing).  He still has too much tongue action when
 we pronounces words and that slures the sounds.  I also go some shareware
 programs for the computer so they can learn and have fun at the same
 time.  My father just left for another country and so we will start to
 study that also.  Actually I think I mite be more excited than they are.
 My daughter told me one of her friends are going to be homeschooled.  The
 children make alot of awful remarks to her, name calling and stuff and the
 poor child is getting really emotionally distraught from it.  I figure I
 would go down their today and say hi to her mom and maybe give some
 support.  I remember this child from last year when I volunteered to
 supervise a science class going to Cranbrook Planaterium.  You could tell
 she had a bad self esteem and my young daughter hung around her alot that
 trip.  My oldest son told me about how everyone teased her alot.
 I've talked to some of my neighbor's and warned them I am homeschooling so
 they don't have any complaints.  They seem to support me on the idea.  Is
 Eleanor in first grade?  I love that age.  This is an age where you really
 can learn how your children learn best.  And they get pretty excited about
 learning too.  Good Luck to ya!!!!
 Regina
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