First, let me welcome all my homeschool-blog-reading friends to our new locale. Glad you made your way over here from Life on the Road!

Before I really get started, I want to share two recent news items that reinforce some of the most important reasons we homeschool.

First, I kid you not, the Lego Ban:

There’s really not much that needs to be said after that, is there?

The second item is the speech Barak Obama will be giving to all school children on Setember 8th. William Jacobson’s article Ask Not What Your President Can Do For You, and his corresponding post on the Insurrection Blog (watch those two videos!) sums up my feelings about this indoctrination very clearly.

This whole line of reasoning and questioning is backwards. It may have become lost in the mania, but HE works for US, not the other way around.

And no, this is not Obama’s “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” moment.

But let me get back to the issue of the day in our house… A bright 4 1/2 year old.

Is it Pre-Home-School, or Home-Pre-School, or ??

The biggest “problem” we have right now is that I’m not a big fan of “busy-work,” and I tend more towards the philosophy that at this age they need to be learning to be good people, not struggling to master certain facts.

Jewel watches her big brother, though, and very much wants to “do school.”

So far we’ve just found useful ways to play – writing letters on her magnetic writing pad, or on paper, reading together, and of course homemaking skills.

But I also decided to take a chance and dabble with the Weaver Interlock curriculum this year.

Things I like about it:

• Three days-a-week schedule (vs. five)
• Solidly Bible-based (not just including Bible study, but acutally structured around the Bible, and using it in all subjects)
• Lots of “real-world” activity (nature walks, etc.)
• Reading from “real” books, not special readers (the reason I liked Sonlight for Nick)
• No rote work (at this age)

Sounds pretty good, eh?

Now the challenge is figuring out what to do with the littlest one.  He’s too interested to do something else by himself, and too disruptive if he’s involved…

P.S. Don’t forget to enter our “Housewarming Party” drawing for a set of 3 Homestead Blessings DVDs!

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