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6 year old son keeps getting kicked out of school
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 717074" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Do you have a Children's Museum or Science or History Museum that you can go to? What programs do they offer? Are there any exhibits coming that you can tailor lessons around?</p><p></p><p>One thing I LOVED about homeschooling was being able to make any lesson interesting to my child. Sure, he had to learn math and LA and all that, but he could learn those things in many contexts. I could wrap them in what we were interested in. I would take him to dinner and we would plan out what we wanted to study together. Even when he was just a year older than your son, he had wonderful ideas and contributed quite a lot. We chose overall topics and then I found lessons in books and online to fit what we wanted. He understood not all of it could be about the topic, but a lot of it could. I also found libraries that had story time for kids his age and met moms there who were welcoming and like minded. </p><p></p><p>Include food whenever you can. The more senses you can include in a lesson, the more it will be ingrained in a memory. With food, especially if he helps you make it, you involve many senses. We cooked food from other cultures, other eras, food shaped like dinosaurs, used food to do math problems (and ate it when we were done! especially fun with mini m&ms etc... as a treat for something especially hard or for a test), and we used food to make art - it is great fun when your art is edible! Food always kept the kids' interest. </p><p></p><p>My father was a science teacher so I had a lot of help with that. We mostly did experiments for science. The kids wrote out the steps for the scientific method (yes, even as early as grade 2) and we experimented with whatever. I can recommend some books if you want. Many of the supplies were things we had around the house or could get easily for very little money. </p><p></p><p>You also can check out <a href="http://www.khanacademy.com" target="_blank">www.khanacademy.com</a> for ideas. I know you probably don't want to do online lessons, but they have all sorts of things there. I haven't explored the elementary school things, so I don't know what they offer for that age. I do know it is free. I will see if I can find my old homeschool sites and see what is still in operation after all these years and send you the sites. Many had lessons for various things that could be tailored to different ages and ability levels. </p><p></p><p>Let me know what, if any, of this is helpful. I will happily PM you specific things if you want. I LOVED homeschooling when my son was little.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 717074, member: 1233"] Do you have a Children's Museum or Science or History Museum that you can go to? What programs do they offer? Are there any exhibits coming that you can tailor lessons around? One thing I LOVED about homeschooling was being able to make any lesson interesting to my child. Sure, he had to learn math and LA and all that, but he could learn those things in many contexts. I could wrap them in what we were interested in. I would take him to dinner and we would plan out what we wanted to study together. Even when he was just a year older than your son, he had wonderful ideas and contributed quite a lot. We chose overall topics and then I found lessons in books and online to fit what we wanted. He understood not all of it could be about the topic, but a lot of it could. I also found libraries that had story time for kids his age and met moms there who were welcoming and like minded. Include food whenever you can. The more senses you can include in a lesson, the more it will be ingrained in a memory. With food, especially if he helps you make it, you involve many senses. We cooked food from other cultures, other eras, food shaped like dinosaurs, used food to do math problems (and ate it when we were done! especially fun with mini m&ms etc... as a treat for something especially hard or for a test), and we used food to make art - it is great fun when your art is edible! Food always kept the kids' interest. My father was a science teacher so I had a lot of help with that. We mostly did experiments for science. The kids wrote out the steps for the scientific method (yes, even as early as grade 2) and we experimented with whatever. I can recommend some books if you want. Many of the supplies were things we had around the house or could get easily for very little money. You also can check out [URL="http://www.khanacademy.com"]www.khanacademy.com[/URL] for ideas. I know you probably don't want to do online lessons, but they have all sorts of things there. I haven't explored the elementary school things, so I don't know what they offer for that age. I do know it is free. I will see if I can find my old homeschool sites and see what is still in operation after all these years and send you the sites. Many had lessons for various things that could be tailored to different ages and ability levels. Let me know what, if any, of this is helpful. I will happily PM you specific things if you want. I LOVED homeschooling when my son was little. [/QUOTE]
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