Wetsipon Workshop : Homeschool Journeys

W hen I was young,  I was lucky to have access to music in different forms and styles.  It was so accessible we actually took it for granted and for a time,  wasted the opportunity.   My mother was a piano teacher,  the best basic piano teacher in our small town.  She knows how to make a person play a musical instrument with information that sticks as a core memory.  Not just the easy playing style that would make you copy playing a piece and when the session ends you will never play the instrument again.  She is good in theory and possibly child psychology or people reading she can customize a curriculum so that you can eventually play the instrument,  find your own time to go back again, and still could play and progress even after the session.    However,  she was my mother and I never was into making music as a passion so I didn't like my Saturday playtime and TV time stopped by piano practice and lessons during my youth.  So that became my chance to be a virtuoso. Lol But stil

W etsipon's development happened this way,  she read at around 2, could keyboard type an actual word with corresponding emoji pre-playschool (around 3,) and then struggled for her to write on pen and paper at playschool.  We had to push her for pencil skills as we did not want her to do another playschool and be accepted in Kinder. Glad that I had a sister who is into child dev and asked us one question.  Is anybody at home writing on paper?  Being with 2 adults,  our household needed a lifestyle change,  we made an effort to forget Onenote, and Evernote and made an extra effort to write on paper.  I was a phone - tablet - laptop yielding corporate mom.  My hubby also only uses the phone, tablet, and desktop.  Things had to change.  Monkey sees monkey does.   I was lucky to have an office near a paper warehouse where they consider manila paper-sized cuts of  (beautiful)  paper as spoilage I can take home.  My ink-challenged learner started developing pencil skills,  and then starte

 I really made thorough research on this matter.  Even when she was in regular school,  I checked casually on resources that is on the internet.  I notice that the community was filled with generous mothers who offer tips and tricks.    I was interested in the lifestyle and personalities of some homeschool vloggers,  one of which is Janina Vela  (in her makeup phase,) since I do not have anyone I personally know who does homeschool,  she was a peg.  I once encountered a colleague client who mentioned she was, I had a conversation with her about education since I think we both have same-age children and we were embarking on decisions on which school to choose, so that started a spark,  my kid was about 4 y.o. about to start schooling,  (she could already read but was not into using the pencil yet,) being a corporate mother,  this was not an option. Then came a lifestyle change and we decided for me to stop corporate work,  I became a freelancer and the window for homeschooling became m

Wetsipon digital drawing on iPad notepad doodle circa 2018.  Representing her new found friends now that she is homeschooling,  Bien and Blocky. W elcome back to my blog.. and welcome back to me.. hehe.  I have been thinking about going back to blogging with the current advocacy much worth my mumblings.   This time I will be sharing our homeschool journey after being a veteran of 4 years completing a milestone and having my daughter recently finish elementary. What started me from homeschooling?  Many things,  but mostly because I realize learning is not a one size fits all.   It is a long story to tell,  it is not just one reason.  It may need to take up a whole blog session.   I saw that my daughter has potential but I can see that regular school needs to maintain a certain speed for most to follow.  The speed seems to be a pace that my daughter gets bored with,  to allow her to be within the speed limit, the school allowed her to slack off and this gets her into situations.   I'