Let's Learn to Love Learning

I have spent some time at the end of the year trying to deschool Jesse and myself. I have read that it can take months up to a couple of years to get out of the mentality of public (and private) schools.
We are wanting to learn at home. Not mimic the classroom enviroment I chose to remove him from. It i going to take time for us both to become accustom to this learning style. He has to understand that he can trust himself to absorb the knowledge around him.

My main goal is for Jesse to learn to love learning. Not just throw facts at him that he has to memorize to pass a standard test. I have curricula, yes. But where can it take us? Where can we go to explore what we are learning? Can we travel daily? Yes, if we want to, although it could make learning math and LA a challenge. I do understand he needs Reading Writing and Arithmetic, I will be sure the basics are covered as we journey through Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Through The Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation and The Age of Exploration. I am beyond excited (and a little scared) of this coming year with my beautiful child.

For more information on deschooling
https://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/school-homeschool-what-is-deschooling/ https://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/homeschooling-101/deschooling/

Running a Little Late

We decided to wait one more week before starting school. Jesse wanted a little more freedom and I needed more time to plan. I did account for the delay in my scheduling.
Monday, July 16,2018 is the official start date. No more extensions or I will have to reconfigure the schedule.
After a discussion with my student we decided we wanted to do he World of Adventure Unit Study. However some of the Language Arts in the Unit Study I don't think is what he personally needs so I am supplementing with Abeka God's Gift of Language A.
I purchased a year membership to Prodigy Math Games and we are going as planned with Saxon 5/4. I also want to download a typing game to help with his keyboarding skills.

This has been a fun week. He had a friend spend the night on Monday, Tuesday we went to the movies, Ant-man and the Wasp. Wednesday we went swimming, Yesterday we visited my sister and he enjoyed playing with his 2nd cousins. Today, if we don't get overrun by thunderstorms we are going with friends to White Water.

I plan and pray that we have a productive year.