School Bell Rings

I'm a homeschooling sibling (I know there must be a few of us out there!). We (my mother and I) recently took my 12 year old sister (Danny) out of her primary school for numerous reasons. I won't go into a very detailed story but I'll list the most important points that led us to our decision:

1. Danny has dyslexia + dysgraphia and was not adapting to traditional learning techniques.

2. Her former teacher made very disparaging statements about her. We took her out of the school immediately.

3. Her behavioral problems were gradually worsening.

4. We felt like we had to get our own act together. Focus on creating a better family and take her out of an unproductive, negative environment and make her feel empowered and happy.

It's been about one month since we took her out of school and one week into our new homeschool session. Her behaviour and attitude towards school has been a complete 360 (I know I sound like a bad tv commercial but it's true). She even does work without our prompt. I suspect this will start to wear off after a while.

In case you wanted to know, we're using Time 4 Learning, as well as, our own curriculum:

• Culture (Exploring countries and continents to learn their culture, geography and history)

• Body Talk which we're only covering for the first four weeks of the January (sex, hygiene, self esteem, etc).  

• Physical Education: going for walks, yoga, dancing (Just Dance on the Wii included), swimming - separate from her extra curriculars. 

•  Arts and Crafts 

• Cooking