TeachingMyTwo Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 DD is 4 and I am looking as to how I am going to do school with her now that she is ready for something a little more structured. Right now, I have a hodge podge assortment of materials for more ecclectic style learning but it feels like it's more work for me to do it this way. I do have a decent amount though and it seems like enrolling in a school will be throwing money away in the sense for what I aleady own, but it will help me stay accountible and keep us all on task. What age can you enroll your child in Laurel Springs? DD is reading very well, how to they handle asynronicities between subjects? I thought about using time4 learning and What your ______ needs to know as a base, and then working everything else we already own aroud it, and it would be a lot cheaper, but I feel like it would be so nice to have support and accountibility. Although, a message forum and a good magnetic daily tracking chart would probably take care of all that. {sigh}. And I won't have to convince we need to drop 2K on school which will be a huge disagreement, I can already see that coming. We are moving to Japan in 6 months and I'd really like to enroll the kids in Japanese school (which is not free because they will still be in yochien). But that means I need to be very consistant working with them at home to ensure they continue progressing since there will be a language barrier until they begin to pick up the language and truly learn at school. But doing a half day Japansese program and then a stuctured online private school would probably be overkill both on them timewise and financially on us as parents. They are accelerated as it is, so I don't have much fear of them falling behind, but I do want them to continue growing and the LS school seems like such a "safe" comprehensive choice starting out on this journey in a more formal way. I just need a sounding board...the wise choice is probably to develop a good schedule and plan at home, stick to it, use the materials we have, invest minimally in a few more, and most likely enroll the kids in time4learning. Is T4L *that* bad? LS just sounds so lovely in their marketing materials.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeachingMyTwo Posted December 25, 2012 Author Share Posted December 25, 2012 Thanks for your reply! I sent you a PM with my email address. :) You really make me lean in the direction of LS, does DD have to be 5 to begin? I planted a litle seed tonight to Dh that we may need to drop 2K on curriculum. He wasn't as opposed as he could have been, which is a good start! They also assigned me a point of contact, I figure I'll hear from them after the holidays. We'll see how it goes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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