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Debrond · 07-26-2004, 11:58 PM

I'm so sad...

My ds is 5 and although we've been doing our thing learning at home for so long 5 just suddenly feels different and sad. He's "officially" school aged now.

I mean it's not like I have to put him on the big yellow bus or anything but I still feel sad like I'm losing my baby. I'm totally committed to homeschooling and would never send him to school but all of a sudden out of the blue I'm wondering "what the heck am I doing?"

Anyone else ever feel this way? How about you other moms officially starting K this year...

skyblue · 07-27-2004, 12:05 AM

Course my daughter is going to be four in Oct., but I did kinda feel like because she is ahead, what am I doing? Not exactly the same, but my dh and I feel like we are getting ourselves in trouble having an accelerated learner. Along the same lines, it is the grade that made me stop and wonder.

Jenn

Debrond · 07-27-2004, 07:28 AM

I know what your saying. It's confusing to try to label them a grade that their peers are at yet at the same time they are way beyond what an actual "K" class would be doing.
I guess as they get older we'll get more confident in ourselves and them and rely less on the label of age/grade and let them just be at the rate they want to be. At least I'm hoping, lol.
Your dd is too cute in her ballet pose.

skyblue · 07-27-2004, 09:51 PM

Thanks! That was her first performance in June. She really likes to be up on stage now.

I was homeschooled. Never really cared about my grade, and don't care about her "number" but it is just overwhelming though to realize how fast we are going to have to move to keep up with her. Sounds like your ds is moving right along too. The thing that really gets me as that she has almost finished her handwriting book and she started it sometime in June! Thank goodness for extra HWT paper! There is no grade level obviously on handwriting anyways, but she isn't going to be ready to start the cursive as far as I can tell until six so maybe the other two will actually take more like a year to finish or I'll just have to use lots of paper.

I am going to hope that using just paper will make the 1st grade one wait until December but if she gets bored of just stuff I make up (she likes having a "book"), I'll just get it early. I know it certainly doesn't hurt her to be learning writing and phonics at the same time.

Jenn

3boysnagrl · 07-28-2004, 09:44 AM

You know, I feel that way this year about Nathan. He will be 7 in November - so he would be 1st grade this year. He will be doing 4th grade math in a couple of months. eeks!

Nathan is one to sit down and do his HWT workbook all at once. I have to limit what he is 'allowed' to do in the book per day (1-2 pages at a time) - then he can get the paper out and copy it onto the paper. I also have a bunch of preprinted HWT sentences (from the cyber charter), so he does a lot of that, too.

I just can't believe my baby (he still seems like my baby) is 1st grade. sigh...