Category: The Home School Zone

I read a blog last week from a local mom about how her dentist asked if she was Still Home. Luckily I don’t get asked this question since I still have a tiny one. But we …

If you’re a regular reader, you know how I feel about school uniforms and you know that we chose to opt out of the “mandatory” uniform requirement at Honeybun’s school (check out “A Uniformed Education” and “The First Day” for …

In many ways, we are the anti-parents in America.  There are many panting norms that we do not believe in or follow.  Most of our parenting differences fall in the “children should be allowed to …

Every once in a while I come across an article or blog post by someone else and I think “ah, I should totally write a post about that!”  This happened this weekend when my attention …

Honeybun’s kindergarten homework regimen started this week.  Let me start my rant (and yes, this is going to be rant) by saying any work assigned to be done at home by a 5 year-old kindergartner …

Honeybun’s only homework for September is learning 101 sight words.  Some of them she learned last year in Pre-K and a few of them she’s learned at school but the majority of the “teaching” is …

This week Honeybun’s school had their “back to school” nights where parents were invited into the classrooms (without the kids) to meet the teacher, learn about the classroom and school and find out about the curriculum …

I’m pretty sure we’ve already been classified by the Elementary school as “difficult parents”.  We made a big stink about Honeybun’s class placement (which I’m pretty sure did not affect where she was placed), opted out …

The day finally came that I’ve been dreading:  Kindergarten.  We dropped Honeybun off this morning for her first day (and were nearly late).  The teacher showed her the morning routine of putting her folder in the …

Honeybun officially starts kindergarten in a week.  I’m still worried about the whole situation (see the “School Time” category for my kindergarten anxiety saga).  The day we return from Colorado we will find out her teacher when we …