About home schooling

From starting home-schooling, what has surprised me the most is that I could have such a good time while I was working. Very few days pass where working is a challenge because I can decide to work in my own way. Getting the chance to take breaks from my work occasionally helps me to work more fluently when I come back to working. Home-schooling is a very enjoyable way to learn. I am very happy that I decided to home-school.

My favorite part of home schooling is getting to play my music more often and I now get the chance to make a drawing or two. Playing guitar and banjo is the most important part of my life. Before, when I was enrolled in public school, I didn't get enough time to practice music because of my tight schedule. Now that I am home-schooled I get more of a chance to practice multiple times per day. I also love to draw, which I can get to do a couple times a month because of home-schooling.

Two of my favorite things, that I have learned about while home-schooling are, different parts of the body and beginning Spanish. I find knowing body parts is an important skill to know because later, I can know if something would be unhealthy for me. I find it interesting because I never knew such amazing things were inside of me. I think that learning Spanish is a very important skill because were I live many people know very little English and only speak Spanish. Someday, if I speak Spanish fluently it will be easier to communicate with the people who live in my city. 

If I could change one thing about home schooling it would be the Connecticut state law for home-schooling. In the law it does not require a student to learn science. I disagree with this because I think that science is a very important subject. If a person does not learn science then they will not understand what their college teachers are teaching them after they are done with home-schooling. Not only is science a important life subject but it also can be very fun to learn. I enjoy science very much and I think all students should have as much fun as I do when studying.

Home-schooling is quiet different from standard schooling. I enjoy getting home-schooled much more than public school. In home-schooling, I can relax as I do my work. I feel that I learn a lot more through home-schooling. When I went to school, we may have worked for about four of the seven hours I was there. During home schooling more of those hours are spent learning.

Every Friday I go to a outdoors camp for home-schoolers. All day from 9:00 to 3:00 we hike into the woods were we build fires, play games, sing songs, track animals, do a nature observation type of meditation called "Sit-Spots", as well as other exiting and enjoyable activities. This camp is called Two Coyotes Wilderness School. I have had the most wonderful time at Two Coyotes. It is located on a farm in Connecticut. My favorite part of home-schooling is Two Coyotes. Our normal day would start with a group meeting were we all say what were grateful for and sing a song. Then we pick a game to play and we play it at a grassy area next to the river. After were done with that, we take a hike into the woods. Occasionally we will stop during the hike to admire the garden that is on the path or eat some wild grapes or other types of wild plants. When we are done hiking we stop at our fire pit were we sit on logs and eat a snack. Then our instructors teach us to build a fire using a bow drill or flint and steel. Later, we play another game then eat lunch. After lunch, we do an activity that our instructor has chosen. Some days it's tracking animals, others it is making a mold of an animal foot print. After that we will do our sit-spots. Everyday we do our sit-spots. Sit-spots are a form of meditation were each student goes to a special place in the woods by themselves and observes all the nature and animals around them. After going to a sit-spot many times you begin to have a spiritual connection to the place where you do your sit-spots. Sit-spots defiantly are one of my favorite parts of the day. Then we all sing a song and hike back.