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RE: At What age did you formally start school? - 6/16/2008 9:54:51 AM
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misaham
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We started with our daughter when she reached Kindergarten age (5), but she was anxious to do school, and it was pretty easy with her. However, we did Sonlight, which is mainly reading to her, and not much "seat work", which I love! I taught both of my kids to read using "Sing, Spell, Read & Write" (which my daughter loved and my son did not) and the "Bob Books". (They are the best!)
We strayed away from homeschooling, but are doing it again, and we are returning to Sonlight this year. My son is NOT a textbook and worksheet learner. We have never lived in a state where we had to do standardized testing, but are in the process of moving to one.
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RE: At What age did you formally start school? - 6/16/2008 10:25:24 AM
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Legally 'doing school' does NOT mean 'seatwork'. Is she learning? Are you covering any subjects that your state law requires? (in WA we have a list of 11 or 12 subjects we have to cover, but every one of them can be done without putting a bottom in a chair, lol).
If she is beginning to want to learn things like writing, etc, then you must be doing a good job.
As for the time it takes to learn to read...it really doesn't, if the child is ready. I had one teach himself to read at age 6 and one who was NOT ready until about 9 and then learned with my assistance, but who reads voraciously and way ahead of his grade level now at age 12, and then there was one who demanded that I teach her when she was 4 and so we broke out the Bob books for 15 minutes a day and in three months she was reading well enough to get herself into trouble when her mom sent her to kindy.
So long as you aren't shortchanging her (being unable or unwilling to help her learn when she wants to, and providing an environment and conversation that encourages learning) I don't think you need to worry at this point.
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RE: At What age did you formally start school? - 6/16/2008 12:58:11 PM
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I think it would depend on how much paperwork you actually need to have according to the homeschool law in your state. You don't have to overload on seatwork, either. Keep a log of what you do. We used to do math outside with chalk, I would just write it down in my log.
Jen is right about reading. Ds didn't even learn to read until he was over 6 years old. It didn't take a lot once he learned phonics. he just took off and started to read by himself.
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RE: At What age did you formally start school? - 6/23/2008 7:35:09 AM
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ORIGINAL: Jenny-Fair
Legally 'doing school' does NOT mean 'seatwork'. Is she learning? Are you covering any subjects that your state law requires? (in WA we have a list of 11 or 12 subjects we have to cover, but every one of them can be done without putting a bottom in a chair, lol).
If she is beginning to want to learn things like writing, etc, then you must be doing a good job.
As for the time it takes to learn to read...it really doesn't, if the child is ready. I had one teach himself to read at age 6 and one who was NOT ready until about 9 and then learned with my assistance, but who reads voraciously and way ahead of his grade level now at age 12, and then there was one who demanded that I teach her when she was 4 and so we broke out the Bob books for 15 minutes a day and in three months she was reading well enough to get herself into trouble when her mom sent her to kindy.
So long as you aren't shortchanging her (being unable or unwilling to help her learn when she wants to, and providing an environment and conversation that encourages learning) I don't think you need to worry at this point.
I pretty much ditto this post. My kids have all started 'formal' schooling much later- around 7-8 years old, but as required by Ohio, from age 6 I make sure all subjects are covered with reading and projects and field trips, etc... and they have still passed the CAT every year with flying colors.
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RE: At What age did you formally start school? - 6/27/2008 11:24:57 AM
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Well, the older two had a little time in PS first. DS I started the year he turned 5 in Nov so he was 4. However, it was fun stuff liking coloring and gluing and stuff. We started doing Hooked on Phonics that spring. He didn't really like it and wasn't motivated to do it. THen when we started again in the fall he was all for it and zipped through it (and everything else I give him).
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RE: At What age did you formally start school? - 6/28/2008 11:25:29 AM
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I have over twenty years invested in teaching/mentoring/facilitating homeschool and I STILL don’t know how to answer a question like this. Maybe we never did formal school at all?
If you are going to define formal school as seat work, I still don’t know how to answer. At three years old, my kids were doing drawings at least three mornings a week. That was done in a seat. Sometimes it was coloring books, sometimes blank paper, sometimes letter stencils… sometimes crayons, sometimes pencils, and if I was really into it, perhaps paint. But I never once thought of it as 'doing kindergarten.' I considered it as practicing coordination.
By the time my first child was 18 months, I’d slowed down on checking all the 'milestone charts' and by age two I’d about given them up completely.
When my older children were 3 & 5, I started keeping a weekly calendar. They were photo-copied sheets of a grid five blocks wide (for each weekday) and four blocks high for numbers, letters, drawing and story time. And I put a little clipart cornucopia up in the corner to make it look more 'professional.'  Even then, my main motivation was not to 'do school' but to test myself—I wanted to see how hard it would be to keep records when the state's compulsory education laws would kick in. I found it was sort of fun to be able to see how much we accomplished!
At some point during that season of life, I heard Dr. Dobson on a radio interview with Dr. Raymond Moore discussing research supporting their contention that children are not psychologically ready for formal learning until age eight to ten. I also got copies of Ruth Beechick’s (then) newly published three-booklet series; (now combined and known as The Three R’s.) Her booklets were confirming things God was leading me to anyway. I never fussed about 'formal' schooling after that; except to meet state requirements beginning at age six.
At what age did my children formally start school? In their late teens when they entered college. (We did do/are doing formal high school graduation ceremonies though, which seemed/seems perfectly appropriate.)
I’m sorry about your standardized testing stress; when my kids were that age I’d use occasions like town hall meetings, 4th of July political rallies, and candidate debates to make sure the school board members, local & state representatives heard a homeschooler’s voice. A lot of public school teachers hate teaching to the tests too, so on an issue like that you wouldn’t even have to mention homeschooling. Even though it is very hard to change other’s minds, it is sometimes possible to create enough debate that they become reluctant to make things worse.
I don’t know if this would work in your state, but here I did not have to declare a child’s grade level, (their math & verbal were usually two different "years" anyway;) therefore I was able to choose the most appropriate testing level and not go by ages.
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RE: At What age did you formally start school? - 6/30/2008 6:27:24 PM
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princeqaz
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oh i think that in this time of young ,you had better enjoy the life
do what children do , donot think anymore
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RE: At What age did you formally start school? - 6/30/2008 11:50:59 PM
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Jemtree
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I started my daughter at 3 1/2.
I started my son at 5. He wasn't ready before that. He was shy, so we also sent him to a Christian preschool in addition to my teaching him at home. My daughter went to, but mostly for social and because I was pregnant and just needed a break from them for a bit, lol. She was already way ahead of the other kids her age. In fact, I have slowed up a bit so she doesn't get too far ahead.
I will be starting my youngest this fall, and he just turned 3 last week.
He is ready.
He knows all his colors, shapes, can recognize numbers and letters, he can count to 10 in order, for goodness sakes, and I have not even begun yet to teach him. He picks things up from the other two, and his dad and I.
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I have read that starting late is okay, so I went with "what felt good for my own personal reasons"... but like I said, now I am nervous about it. I wanted her to be ahead of things and now I need to really buckle down to do standardized testing in this state.
