Update On Our Venture Into Homeschooling

Grandpa's Private Homeschool
Class of One

"He just seems so happy now!" said musician, photographer, known locally by the nom de plume Diego Lee Rot, or as grandson Jack calls him, "Dad."

It's actually been two weeks since "Diego" took Nena and I up on our longstanding offer to homeschool our grandson, and, honestly, we were caught flat-footed, with no time to actually prepare or order curriculum.

I ordered second grade textbooks for the first grader from Amazon, but I've since added fourth grade science and social studies and a sixth grade reader.  

YouTube supplements everything as we all know.

Socialization?  We look for opportunities and are considering some things.

Yes, some semantics have changed.  Declarative sentences are now "telling" sentences. Imperative sentences are "command" sentences.  Interrogative sentences are simply "question" sentences and exclamatory sentences are referred to as "exclamation" sentences.

Something called a "fact family" is a group of interchangeable numbers in addition and subtraction.

"Word math" involves adding and subtracting letters and picture names to make words.  Neither Jack nor his grandpa could figure out the answer to problem 1 on page 17, so I still gave Jack 100% for the page.

Riding a Razor scooter and swinging currently constitutes physical education, but we will add swimming soon.

Making pizza crust, planting and nurturing vegetable seeds, painting, martial arts instruction, all critical skills, will be included at some point.

Yes, the blog suffers, is not as relevant or topical, but, who cares?