I totally forgot to blog about ChristianHomeschooler being on Smart Parenting last month!  Thanks to Smart Parenting and Tina Rodriguez for the feature and the traffic to this blog that resulted.

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The above screenshot about Homeschooling Your Big Kid (6 to 7 Year Old) is a little blurry. You might want to go to the Smart Parenting website to read the whole article. It might not be on print all right. But we all know that online is where all publications are soon to go anyway. It’s more permanent. And really, I believe more and more people now favor reading online magazines over the physical one (I do!). But then again, it is still lovely to turn the crisp and colorful pages of a physical mag  from time to time.

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So I said, our homeschooler is soon to take his Post Test for Level 1 soon. Turned out, there is no more test to take like such when a student has reached Level 1. All we have to do is to submit the Master Record Sheet, the pace tests, order the Level 2 paces and he’s good to go.

We’re really thrilled to be doing the Level 2 PACES. We ordered the PACES last week and we’ll get hold of them soon. The package for colored PACES costs P8,000. Plus the Academic fee of P3,000. The hubby decided that the colored PACES will better help our son to be more interested in his class. We ordered the non-colored ones for his Level 1, we only paid less than P3,000. He was okay with it. But we are hoping to assess how he’s going to respond to the difference.

FYI, the Academic Fee is paid on a yearly basis. Regardless of the number of Levels the student has finished throughout the year.

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My son’s “official” graduation from ABC’s with Ace and Christi is slated on April 5, 2011. My folks and I are going to witness him go up the stage again with his fellow homeschoolers. For those who are not familiar with homeschooling here in the Philippines, I mentioned “official” in the first part of this entry because, technically, my son is already in Level 1/ Grade 1 of The School of Tomorrow’s system (ACE- Accelerated Christian Education). Since we are homeschoolers, graduation is only done on a yearly basis. So we have to wait for that schedule to be able to “officially” graduate.

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Below is a video of our son looking for some verses from the Bible. This is one of the new things that he has been fond of doing for the last couple of weeks during our family devotion.

He would first look from the table of contents of the Bible and find out what page the particular book is and when he gets there he’d go to the chapter and the verse. At one point in the video, he had to go grab his PACE and check for the particular verse that he was looking for.

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There are just so many benefits homeschooling has been doing for our family. As of late, our son is fond of  going over verses that he has encountered during our class. Verses are incorporated in every subject PACE.

It started during one of those nights my husband led our family devotion and was randomly teaching our son how to look for verses in the Bible. Our son, then asked if they could look for verses from the Bible that he encountered during the day as he went through his PACEs during our homeschool time.

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Unlike attending traditional schools, a homeschooled child should also know the pledges regular students know – pledge of allegiance to the national flag and to the school. We cannot just withhold our children from learning these.

Aside from nurturing in our child respect for the country and the Christian flag, these two flags that sit on our son’s office also serve more than a single function. i.e.:

Phillippine/National Flag is raised:
1. Request permission to score.
2. Recite Memory Verse
3. Request permission for breaks (drinking, playing, etc.)

Christian Flag is raised:
1. Help with subject or lesson.
2. “Supervisor Score” strips.
3. Supervisor’s Initial (for check-ups and self tests)
4. Long or Detailed Questions

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The lovely thing about browsing through very informative homeschooling websites is that you chance upon interesting facts such as this. Although we have been told time and again that there are a good number of homeschoolers who are actually known for their worthwhile contribution in our society, it is another thing to actually see those names in homeschooling websites, even in print. Gives me a sense of pride somehow for having chosen to homeschool our child.

Here are some of the Famous Homeschoolers:

Artists
Claude Monet
Grandma Moses
Leonardo da Vinci
Rembrandt Peale
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Athletes
Michelle Kwan
Jason Taylor
Tim Tebow
Serena Williams
Venus Williams

Authors
Agatha Christie
Alex Haley
Beatrix Potter
C.S. Lewis
Charles Dickens
George Bernard Shaw
Hans Christian Anderson
Louisa May Alcott
Margaret Atwood
Mark Twain
Phillis Wheatley
Pearl S. Buck
Robert Frost
Virginia Woolf

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Here is my homeschooler in one of our many dress down days.

Every start of a program, we make sure we get into the habit of dressing up for school time. Teacher Mama in her slacks and our little homeschooler in his uniform. Read this article »

Another advantage for homeschooling families is the fact that our children do not have to endure endless hours on the road in his school service, which is becoming a common scenario nowadays. This is especially true for children who are living around Marikina and Rizal area during heavy rainfall.

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And when I say curriculum, that would be ABCs with Ace and Christi. My son graduated last March from his Preschool with Ace and Christi with honors and we just got done with our first month on this current curriculum. This particular curriculum is designed to be preparatory for the child to shift to Level 1/Grade 1.

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