Homeschooling with Six Children
Now for Joel it was so simple. He loves to learn! He is also a very obedient child. I never have to tell him twice to do something. He always jumps up to "do" for someone. He will make a very good daddy one day. It was not a problem for him to advance to Josiah's grade (3rd this year), which is one grade level above his own. Now, he works side by side with Josiah. But, he always seems to finish his own work ahead of his brother...
Joshua is in first grade, learning how to read. He is having a tough time with it. He is a very sensitive child. Always has been. If I push him too hard, he starts to cry. He would cry now if he knew what I was writing about him! He knows his work but plays silly with me sometimes. I have to keep him in line or he will just float away into dreamland.
Jonathan is the hardest one to teach right now. Yes, Kindergarten is the hardest subject in my opinion. Think about it -- YOU have to teach your child how to read AND write AND color AND cut AND paste, etc, etc, etc. This is not as easy as it seems. For instance, what if he is a lefty and you are a righty? Or vice versa. Joshua and Joel are lefties and they were the hardest to teach how to write. What I finally ended up doing was sitting across from them and having them "mirror" everything I did. Jonathan is a righty but thinks that writing is the most awful thing in the world to do. All he wants to do is color, play games, play with his sisters, etc. Every time I sit down with the boys to do school, he always wants to join. But after 15 minutes, he is done. So I let him go for a while and bring him back later. That works for him and me and keeps us both calm.
Now the problem with choosing a curriculum. Since we are now living a Jewish lifestyle (we are what you would consider Noachides -- righteous gentiles) after years of xtianity, it is very difficult to find a G-dly curriculum that does not reflect xtianity. I have had to resort to public school type subjects for some (the safe ones like English and Math) and go
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