There is a possibility that DD1 will be going back into a school from HE. She turns 6 on Sunday, and would be in year one. She has some social and personal issues, so I want to try and make the academic side smooth for her, so I'm going to start making our homeschool gradually more formal.
She is a very solid reader, and is interested in the human body so knows quite a lot about that and so obviously basic scientific methods etc as she has done experiments to help her learn. We tend to have loose themes that we follow for a while, and so she has learned quite a lot about robots, ancient Greece, the heart, snow, states of matter, basic politics, weaving and coal mining.
Obviously when I say "quite a lot" I mean for a five year old, not in the grand scheme of things.
She works through workbooks and sheets, but in a fairly informal way - she has a folder of work that I expect her to work on every day, but sometimes that can be ten minutes, sometimes all day.
She works on year two upwards workbooks and so on, but obviously I know it is easier for a parent to get them to do their best and also I can give her much more personal help and attention so she might slip down in class - it's not a race, I only give her those tasks or else she doesn't bother thinking, and I'm sure school will be teaching her other, equally valid, skills.
Anyhow, ignore my rambling. My question is: what can I do to prepare her? I'm not worried about ability academics wise, it is more that there will be different skills for classroom national curriculum style learning.
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BrittaPerry · 04/03/2013 22:13
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