So, as you guys have read before I plan to start homeschooling my children this fall, and if you haven't read it already yet then hey, I plan to homeschool my kids and help give any insight to other homeschool moms about how I teach my kids and our day to day in teaching. I do not plan to buy any kind of curriculum and am hoping to try out just going by interest led. I have planned our year around the various jobs and the things my children love the most, such as -- my seven-year-old wants to grow up working with animals so we have based her main science around animals and of course we will continue learning the other parts of science and doing awesome experiments but since she wants to work with animals we are including quite a bit of animal sciences in. My son who is 11 has decided he wants to work more with marine animals and the ocean so we are including marine sciences in with his school work to help him learn more about what he would want his profession to be.

With this I feel like they are enjoying the thought of being homeschooled more because not only am I including their thoughts and the things they want to learn about in, but I'm also including the things that they are passionate about themselves. I really feel like since I am also having them express their likes that they are going to be more enthusiastic an excited to learn each day.

Being that I plan to homeschool them this morning I asked each to draw and write me a story of what they're most awesome summer vacation to be. Without too much problems each wrote four sentences with a littl coaching to write one more. They were well thought out sentences and only one misspelled word which really made me happy. But, seeing that it is summer and I am not trying to start schoolwork right now I thought that having this small amount of a brain workout would help them throughtout and they had to earn their electronics with this so, win-win for all of us.

Todays post is mainly about how easily it was for these guys to do some small amount of work for a summer reward and it showed me how excited I am to start homeschooling them this fall!