Homeschooling Prep

The question Elias seems to be asked frequently of late is "will you be starting kindergarten this year?" To which he has developed a couple of replies: "I'm not ever going to school...(long pause, sometimes a prompt) I'm homeschooled." Or "My mom is going to homeschool me." I love when he uses the first one, you can see the question in peoples eyes as they try and figure out if he is serious and then the dawn of understanding when he finishes.

He is very happy with the fact he will be staying home and not going to a public school. I don't think he really understands the difference, except that we have told him he is very lucky to have parents who are able to provide the home schooling opportunity. The question of when are we starting is always hard to answer or at least its a vague answer. We have started - years ago, and will just continue in the same vein without a real start date.

Being a mostly unschooled structure we are just providing materials and opportunities for Elias to take. We recently added a couple new resources to our already accumulated stash. Hands On Equations, The Adventures of Penrose - The Mathematical Cat, more origami books...we have lots of other books for math (Singapore, Miquon...), many good reading books, he loves to write and is picking that up by practice and we also have some history and science books. Mostly we just go with an interest and incorporate all we can into it. All in all the hardest part is finding time (Eva free time)to sit and work with him. He has a ton of interest in so many things and we have lots of resources, we just have Eva who isn't able to sit with us and work on something similar because she always wants what he has.

So this years *kindergarten* is really just finding time to sit and help him through what he is already working on. He is just fine, I am the one who needs to learn how to handle our time. :)