Homeschooling has begun!

For a few years I have been considering doing homeschool with Ted. I have read several books, tons of blogs, and even gone to a homeschool convention. Of course I have also said many prayers on the subject and had talks with Tyler too. For our family this feels like the path we want to take, at least for now. I am all about taking it one grade at a time. Before now I have been doing small toddler focused activities with Ted.

Ted just turned three and we felt it was time to put a bit more focus and structure toward Ted's education. Thank goodness for people who blog and create printables!! They are the most amazing people ever! I use several different blogs including 1+1+1=1 and Simply Learning  and Pinterest ;)

For now each unit will last 2 weeks. What I like about homeschool is that this can change. If Ted is miserable with a specific topic then we don't have to keep going with it. Adversely, if he is loving a topic then we certainly can keep it going. Each day we spend about 30-60 min on "preschool" time where we sit down at his table to do activities and worksheets. We take this time to learn letters, numbers, etc. Then throughout the rest of the day I try to find activities that can also be educational like story time at the library, walks through the park, trips to the beach and this past week we went to the aquarium.

As you can tell from the picture, our first unit was ocean themed. I also checked out a few books from the library on the ocean.

So far Ted is loving it. He even requests to do activities and preschool time. It is so much fun to spend time with him and see him figure things out and then later in the day apply what he has learned to real life. He is just amazing :)