sleeping judy
Proud Parent
Sorry, this might be long.
So, this is not necessarily a gym question, but our gym experience has opened us up to a society where there are more people who homeschool.
My daughter is 10. She has been in gymnastics since the age of four and her social group is primarily at the gym though she can make friends everywhere. She's a level 7 who is average in an elite gym. She is definitely NOT one of the rockstars there and it is ok with us. She is a beautiful gymnast who holds her own, but doesn't sweep away the competition at every meet. We in no way hold out hope for a gym scholarship or elite training.
She currently trains in the evenings. We pull her from school early and she misses P.E. I have toyed with homeschooling her in the past as she struggles in school. Despite the fact that we have very small classes at our school, she struggles with focus and has a hard time retaining things, especially math. I work with her on the side with math and I feel that she works very well one-on-one. It's amazing to me that this girl who can hop up on the beam and focus through a routine in front of five hundred people, struggles sitting and learning a math lesson and retaining it. I basically have to put a good amount of time in with her to learn the lessons.
One of her friends who is in our school district was chosen to join the elite path and is doing a partial day of homeschooling. Her parents approached the school and they were very accommodating with the plan. Part of my reluctancy of homeschooling was in how the school would react and all the hoops we would have to jump through to get this in place, especially the partial day. She has a fantastic literacy teacher in the morning who can engage her. We would like to pull her for the afternoon. It was simply a matter of filling out a paper for them. I have already researched curriculums and formulated my plans so I know how it will work for our family. Both my husband and I work, but we have very flexible schedules and are home 90% of the time.
I am considering homeschooling dd for math and science for the rest of this year. Is this crazy of me? What am I missing? I feel like I can work with her very efficiently and get her to above where she is performing now. I feel like I am working with her a ton now, even though she is in school full-time. Homeschooling would open up her day a bit more, give her some down-time and hopefully would ease her frustration. Have I thought through this enough? What am I missing?
So, this is not necessarily a gym question, but our gym experience has opened us up to a society where there are more people who homeschool.
My daughter is 10. She has been in gymnastics since the age of four and her social group is primarily at the gym though she can make friends everywhere. She's a level 7 who is average in an elite gym. She is definitely NOT one of the rockstars there and it is ok with us. She is a beautiful gymnast who holds her own, but doesn't sweep away the competition at every meet. We in no way hold out hope for a gym scholarship or elite training.
She currently trains in the evenings. We pull her from school early and she misses P.E. I have toyed with homeschooling her in the past as she struggles in school. Despite the fact that we have very small classes at our school, she struggles with focus and has a hard time retaining things, especially math. I work with her on the side with math and I feel that she works very well one-on-one. It's amazing to me that this girl who can hop up on the beam and focus through a routine in front of five hundred people, struggles sitting and learning a math lesson and retaining it. I basically have to put a good amount of time in with her to learn the lessons.
One of her friends who is in our school district was chosen to join the elite path and is doing a partial day of homeschooling. Her parents approached the school and they were very accommodating with the plan. Part of my reluctancy of homeschooling was in how the school would react and all the hoops we would have to jump through to get this in place, especially the partial day. She has a fantastic literacy teacher in the morning who can engage her. We would like to pull her for the afternoon. It was simply a matter of filling out a paper for them. I have already researched curriculums and formulated my plans so I know how it will work for our family. Both my husband and I work, but we have very flexible schedules and are home 90% of the time.
I am considering homeschooling dd for math and science for the rest of this year. Is this crazy of me? What am I missing? I feel like I can work with her very efficiently and get her to above where she is performing now. I feel like I am working with her a ton now, even though she is in school full-time. Homeschooling would open up her day a bit more, give her some down-time and hopefully would ease her frustration. Have I thought through this enough? What am I missing?
