Confession
Walking hand in hand on our way to meet our pastor for premarital counseling, my guy and I each carried a little marriage workbook. We had each written under the question: “If you plan on having children, where do you intend to send them to school? Public, private, or homeschool?” the answer:
“1st choice: Public school, because we want our kids to not live in a bubble, but help them learn how to live their faith in the real world. 2nd choice: Private Christian school, but only if necessary and our child wasn’t thriving in the public schools. 3rd choice: We are against homeschooling.”
3 years earlier, I was in a freshman speech class at Moody Bible Institute, where I gave my first speech: “Why Christians Shouldn’t Homeschool.”
Alison says
August 13, 2016 at 6:57 amInterested in how you use Draw Europe. I am using Draw USA this fall for the first time and am curious on how often you draw, how many pages you complete in a sitting, how you organize /keep their work. Thanks so much! !
Gretchen says
August 16, 2016 at 2:18 pmWe did Draw USA last year, and loved it! Draw Europe seems a bit harder, but still doable. We do about 2 countries a day, so 2 pages. It makes each session go very fast, so it doesn’t feel like you are doing much at first. But sometimes just learning the names of the countries, and building that knowledge slowly, they start noticing news stories about those countries, or see the countries listed in our history books. Since it’s so fast, we do it as a part of our morning hour, which has a lot of little things like this plugged into one hour when we’re all there. We read a chapter of the Bible, we pray, we work on our memory verse, then we work on either the poem we are memorizing, or the artwork we are looking at, or listen to a podcast on classical music. Then we read a section from our history book, do this geography, and then finish with spelling. I find that we all do better when we get all these “little things” done first thing in the day, and we all feel very accomplished before we dig in to the deeper work that is done more individually.