Friday, August 14, 2015

Our Flexible Homeschool

We have become very flexible over the years.  For instance, this year we had planned to continue with Life of Fred for Bee.  Now, he has loved Life of Fred for the past couple of years, but at some point in Fractions he seemed to become kind of lost, and he didn't want to go back and re-do what he had already done.  Plus, his book was lost. 

So, the first day of school we switched to Khan Academy, and that seems to be a good fit for him right now.  Even though I was attached to the Life of Fred series and liked the idea that he could continue to love it all the way through Calculus, it didn't work that way. 

He might go back to Life of Fred, and he might not, and that is okay.  He might continue with Khan Academy for a long time, or he might switch to something else next year, and that is okay too. 

The important thing is that he is learning math and feeling positive about it.  Years ago, I would have tried to make him stay with the Life of Fred series.  So, I think that is progress.  Sometimes I feel bad for my oldest because I learned so many lessons on him.  Of course, Bug has his own lessons to teach me.  And Dot will benefit from what her older brothers taught me and teach me even more.