I have tried several different homeschool programs, I even tried public school.

This school year specifically, I was using Sonlight. I have recently discovered something about myself and that is that I don’t adapt things very well unless I am very sure and very familiar with it. So, for example, when doing the Sonlight Language Arts lessons, I read the directions and if it is not clear or I have questions, or the kids don’t understand, I am lost. I don’t know another way to explain it or help the kids see it from another angle.

As far as the other subjects, I cannot explain how frustrating it was. My plan was to teach my kids as a group. I wanted to have some time set aside for my youngest, who is a first grader(phonics, language arts).Then I realized the the older son should be doing more if he was going to be prepared to do Sonlight high school. So, then the plan was to do some reading outloud as a group, doing things one on one w/ my youngest daughter and also w/ my oldest son. The middle 3 were all very similar and I kept them in a group.

It seemed like a good idea, but it was such a headache. Each one in that group of 3 could be taught the same thing, but worked at a different pace! And my older son wasn’t ready to take off and do more on his own and my first grader wasn’t getting any time w/ me because I was too frazzled. I wasn’t able to personalize each child’s education the way I wanted to.

 When I started T4L, I started those 3 off at about the same place, but they are so different now! My 8 year old daughter is in 3rd grade math and 3rd grade Language arts. My 10 year old son does a fluency lesson from 2nd grade(he is dyslexic) and just started working on 4th grade Language arts and math. He will have to go back and work on multiplication/division facts, but he is doing well. My other student, the neighbor’s grandson is 11 and he is doing 2 lessons of 2nd grade language arts(fluency, comprehension, some phonics) and one lesson of 3rd grade LA. He is working on 2nd grade math.

I am going to wrap it up for now since I have gone on so long, but I would be happy to answer any specific questions or go into more detail if needed. Just ask!