Author Topic: Home Schooling Myself (Read 1240 times)

vinceaglieri · « **on:** January 26, 2013, 02:27:16 PM »

Hello everyone!

I am finishing my highschool career with the Grade 12 corriculum of Our Lady of the Rosary School and have created my own schedule. I'm on my own though and this schedule probably can use some touching up or something. Is there anyone here who teach their children at home or who have any good advice regarding this?

Elizabeth · « **Reply #1 on:** January 26, 2013, 05:10:55 PM »

May God bless you! Our Lady of the Rosary is a good curriculum. Ask Hobbledehoy? He is a brilliant auto-diadact if there ever was one.
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vinceaglieri · « **Reply #2 on:** January 26, 2013, 05:24:11 PM »

O.k I will ask him, and may God bless you too! :)

Jerome · « **Reply #3 on:** January 28, 2013, 01:49:30 PM »

My children are still below 2nd grade, and we plan on homeschooling them until a good Traditional Catholic school is available to us.

I'd like to know how Our Lady of the Rosary School compares to Our Lady of Victory's program in Post Falls, ID? http://www.olvs.org/index.asp?

Thanks!!

Tiffany · « **Reply #4 on:** February 13, 2013, 05:16:18 AM »

Hi Vince, did someone help you? :)

vinceaglieri · « **Reply #5 on:** February 13, 2013, 10:29:10 AM »

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My children are still below 2nd grade, and we plan on homeschooling them until a good Traditional Catholic school is available to us.

I'd like to know how Our Lady of the Rosary School compares to Our Lady of Victory's program in Post Falls, ID? http://www.olvs.org/index.asp?

Thanks!!

Well the courses I'm doing with Our Lady of the Rosary School (OLRS) are English Literature, Religion, History, American Government - these first four are compulsory courses - and then the two electives I'm doing are first year Latin and Christianity and the Eastern Religions.

If you go on olrs.com, and go to course offerings, you will see there all of the courses for each grade and you can compare them to the ones on the Our Lady of Victory website. One thing I can note is that there seems to be much more selection with OLRS, but they don't have philosophy, civics, or health science - all of which our lady of victory school has.

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Hi Vince, did someone help you? :)

Yes hobbledehoy gave me some sound direction. I think I have the practical part of it all down; but what is really important is that I think ahead about my vocation and my potential and try my best to accommodate for these things. I've always been pretty lazy and not goal oriented so that ultimately is the biggest challenge for me with homeschooling.

Nadir · « **Reply #6 on:** February 13, 2013, 03:00:40 PM »

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I've always been pretty lazy and not goal oriented so that ultimately is the biggest challenge for me with homeschooling.

No doubt homeschooling will help with that!

Congratulations on your stand and your approach. May your determination be equal to those. You will have a lot of people praying for you.

copticruiser · « **Reply #7 on:** February 14, 2013, 01:27:54 AM »

When I homeschool I pick it all from secular to protestant to catholic curriculum each book custom made for each child.

With regards to a formal catholic education we do it naturally at home anyways. We live out our faith and share it often with protestant friends and often have prayer requests which as a family we carry out.

I find alot of catholic curricullum is very academic and booky but not that its bad but I do find many catholics get the head knowledge and dont understand the heart part of it and Im afraid when I drill to much catholism that my kids will miss the most important part of it.

Religion is just a low key, low stress, natural slow process which we try very much to enjoy thats why I do my own thing. My eldest is 12 and it seems to be workings. All my kids love the faith, love to speak about the faith, and read alot of literature as their own personal preference without it having to be school. Its just everyday life.

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ShepherdofSheep · « **Reply #8 on:** February 14, 2013, 01:40:58 PM »

Back when I was in high school and younger, that's what we did- simply used books from many publishers, depending on each child's needs. I found that though the Catholic liberal arts curriculum is very good, it seems to lack in math and science. I enjoyed my liberal arts classes, but my mind is wired for science. I ended up with four years of Latin in high school (Henle- very good books), four years of English (grammer review which was unnecessary and very tedious) plus literature, research paper writing, etc., four years of math (algebra I and II, trig, and precalc), four years of science (including general and inorganic chemistry, biology, physics, and genetics), four years of animal/veterinary science, religion, lots of history and economics/civics and constitutional law, plus plenty of electives. I am sure I've missed something.

This prepared me very well for college studies and I scored very high on my ACT and SAT, received plenty of scholarships, and was accepted into college very quickly. I did not see any prejudice towards homeschooling at all when applying for college, receiving scholarships, etc. I feel like it left me very well-balanced, strong in my faith, and increased my ability to work independently.

If you think that you have even a slight chance of attending college, and you haven't done so already, make sure you take the ACT or SAT, or preferably both. And don't forget the math and science classes this year either, especially if college is part of your plan.

Blessings to you- I hope you find your year to be a very fruitful one.