First, to those of you who read my blog daily, thank you! I appreciate your stopping by! I have not blogged in almost a month and it is because my husband, our daughter and I made a very important and life changing decision.
Due to a difficult classroom situation, we had to withdraw our daughter from her fifth grade class. Our choices were public school, another private school, or home school.  Since we made this decision at the end of the semester, we were looking at a solution for four months, not the entire school year. Our public school system was not acceptable. Another private school would be costly as we would have to pay for registration, book fees and new uniforms and all for just 16 weeks before we had to do it all over again for the new year.
I was a teacher for 10 years before I started a career in show business and I have missed teaching so much. But to home school my own child? That took some thought and discussion with the family. Aside from the actual academics, home schooling requires the emotional support of the child… and the mommy!
My first step was to enroll her in our local public school and then have her released to home schooling. I then met with our home school teacher, Mrs. Lloyd. She not only gave me every book I could ever dream about, after visiting with our daughter, Pilar, she found books, materials and projects specified for us. She even invited Pilar to play groups on campus and is currently working on a service project in which Pilar can participate.
Home schooling has it’s challenges and blessings.  I will find time to describe them both to you in my blog. I will be blogging some of our ideas and events that have been successes so you can incorporate some of them and support your own child’s education.  It seems like I can find so many projects and outings that are both educational and fun.
A friend of mine who is the Independent Studies and Home Schooling Advisor in her school district, has been very supportive. She encourages me every step of the way. She said that this home schooling experience for the next 4 months can be a great big hug for my fifth grader before she goes into junior high.
I look forward to sharing good experiences and funny ones as well. Â Of course I will be using my blog to reach out!
Science lessons start in a few minutes!