{"id":34609,"date":"2023-01-04T00:09:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T05:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nche.com\/?p=34609"},"modified":"2023-01-06T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T17:33:24","slug":"blog-the-beginning-of-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/blog-the-beginning-of-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"El principio del fin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/?attachment_id=34607\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34607\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34607 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ben-with-binos-scaled-e1672807288187-300x225.jpg?resize=451%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a>por Jessica Frierson, enero de 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Este mes marca el comienzo del fin de una era en mi vida. Mi hijo menor cumplir\u00e1 siete a\u00f1os en unos pocos d\u00edas, marcando el comienzo de sus a\u00f1os escolares oficiales. Aunque nos queda m\u00e1s o menos una d\u00e9cada hasta que nuestro hijo menor se grad\u00fae, la ocasi\u00f3n es muy agridulce para m\u00ed. Cuando comenc\u00e9 a educar en el hogar a su hermano mayor en el oto\u00f1o de 2000, no ten\u00eda idea de que m\u00e1s de veinte a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s estar\u00eda iniciando a mi d\u00e9cimo hijo en su viaje oficial de educaci\u00f3n en el hogar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En muchos sentidos, dirijo nuestra educaci\u00f3n en el hogar de la misma manera que lo hice en esos primeros a\u00f1os. Adoptamos un enfoque relajado de la educaci\u00f3n con mucho estudio de la naturaleza, actividades pr\u00e1cticas y retrasando la escolarizaci\u00f3n formal hasta los siete a\u00f1os. Aprend\u00ed de varias fuentes, incluida la Dra. Ruth Beechik, Raymond y Dorothy Moore, y el Dr. David Elkind, la importancia de que el ni\u00f1o peque\u00f1o tenga la oportunidad de aprender a trav\u00e9s del juego hasta que su cerebro y sus habilidades motoras est\u00e9n m\u00e1s desarrolladas. Como he escrito sobre <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/blog-teaching-a-child-to-read\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aqu\u00ed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, ense\u00f1ar a cada ni\u00f1o a leer y escribir es una de las experiencias m\u00e1s emocionantes de mi vida. Se han creado muchos buenos recuerdos a lo largo de los a\u00f1os trabajando con cada ni\u00f1o para dominar los conceptos b\u00e1sicos de lectura, escritura y aritm\u00e9tica, organizando experimentos cient\u00edficos o sumergi\u00e9ndose en un per\u00edodo de la historia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lo largo de los a\u00f1os, hemos tenido una variedad de horarios escolares. Inicialmente, \u00edbamos a la escuela durante todo el a\u00f1o y libremente nos tom\u00e1bamos d\u00edas libres para visitar a la familia fuera del estado. A medida que nuestra familia creci\u00f3, las visitas fuera del estado se volvieron menos frecuentes. A\u00fan as\u00ed, el horario de todo el a\u00f1o nos permiti\u00f3 la libertad de tomarnos un tiempo libre para la llegada de un nuevo beb\u00e9, una enfermedad en la familia o para ponernos al d\u00eda con las necesidades del hogar. (\u00a1Los ni\u00f1os peque\u00f1os pueden causar una incre\u00edble cantidad de estragos mientras el resto de la familia se re\u00fane alrededor de la mesa del comedor para una lecci\u00f3n de historia!)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/blog-the-beginning-of-the-end-2\/football\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34611\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34611 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/football-scaled-e1672808366282-300x225.jpg?resize=309%2C232&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a>A medida que mis hijos crec\u00edan y se involucraban m\u00e1s en actividades de la iglesia y deportivas, descubrimos que la mayor\u00eda de esas actividades se planeaban alrededor del a\u00f1o escolar tradicional. Durante varios a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s de eso, modificamos nuestro calendario escolar para que coincidiera m\u00e1s con el tradicional. Ahora hemos cerrado el c\u00edrculo y regresado al horario que m\u00e1s nos conven\u00eda: seis semanas de clases seguidas de un descanso de dos semanas. La primera semana libre me da la oportunidad de hacer las tareas del hogar, controlar el jard\u00edn o simplemente recuperar el aliento. La segunda semana se usa para repasar el trabajo escolar terminado y planificar la pr\u00f3xima sesi\u00f3n de seis semanas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">De manera similar, mi m\u00e9todo de planificaci\u00f3n de lecciones ha tenido algunos giros y vueltas antes de volver a mi enfoque original. Una ventaja de la educaci\u00f3n en el hogar durante tantos a\u00f1os es que he tenido tiempo para ajustar lo que funciona mejor para nuestra familia. En los primeros a\u00f1os de educaci\u00f3n en el hogar, mantuve un cuaderno para cada ni\u00f1o en el que escrib\u00eda sus tareas en cada materia para cada d\u00eda, y \u00edbamos a la escuela cuatro d\u00edas a la semana. El lunes, tambi\u00e9n conocido como &quot;Mam\u00e1&quot;, se reserv\u00f3 como mi d\u00eda para comenzar bien la semana creando un men\u00fa para la semana, pagando las facturas pendientes y cocinando lotes dobles de algunas cosas para poner en el congelador. para los d\u00edas m\u00e1s ajetreados que se avecinan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Durante varios a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s de eso, tuvimos cinco d\u00edas de escuela a la semana. Este horario significaba que ten\u00eda muchas noches tratando de jugar<a href=\"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/blog-the-beginning-of-the-end-2\/lesson-planning\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34612\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34612 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lesson-planning-scaled-e1672808472298-300x169.jpg?resize=334%2C188&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a> ponerme al d\u00eda con todas esas actividades que hab\u00eda hecho anteriormente en mi lunes a mam\u00e1. Estos fueron tambi\u00e9n los a\u00f1os en los que tuve un hijo en pr\u00e1cticamente todas las etapas posibles: beb\u00e9, ni\u00f1o peque\u00f1o, preescolar, primaria, secundaria y preparatoria. Estos tambi\u00e9n fueron los d\u00edas que miro hacia atr\u00e1s ahora y me digo a m\u00ed mismo: &quot;\u00bfC\u00f3mo sobreviv\u00ed?&quot; Estos a\u00f1os fueron preciosos... y locamente ocupados... y llenos de recuerdos... y agotadores... y maravillosos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En esos a\u00f1os ocupados, mis planes de lecciones se pusieron en una cuadr\u00edcula de cinco cuadrados para representar los d\u00edas de la semana y ocho cuadrados hacia abajo para las materias estudiadas: artes del lenguaje, matem\u00e1ticas, historia, ciencias, m\u00fasica, escritura y arte (s\u00ed , Tiendo a ser demasiado ambicioso. No, no lo encajamos tan a menudo como lo plane\u00e9.) Guard\u00e9 la copia maestra de este plan y me refer\u00ed a \u00e9l para copiarlo en los cuadernos de mis hijos tan a menudo como pude. M\u00e1s a menudo, lo miraban y luego se iban a hacer sus tareas. Hubo muchos d\u00edas en los que simplemente improvisamos, con todos haciendo lo siguiente en cada uno de sus libros. De alguna manera, mis hijos ganaron cintas azules y el mejor espect\u00e1culo en la feria de ciencias, ocuparon el primer o segundo lugar en el concurso de ortograf\u00eda y tocaron en la orquesta comunitaria. Uno de ellos gan\u00f3 un concurso de ensayos de historia. Digo esto no para jactarme de nuestros logros, sino para jactarme del poder de Dios para ayudarnos en nuestras debilidades cuando somos fieles en confiar en \u00c9l. Creo que cada uno de estos eventos ocurri\u00f3 poco despu\u00e9s de un per\u00edodo en el que me sent\u00ed desanimado por educar a mis hijos en el hogar de manera efectiva.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/blog-the-beginning-of-the-end-2\/games\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34613\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34613 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Games-e1672808549162-300x165.jpg?resize=333%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Ahora que hemos superado los a\u00f1os de tener beb\u00e9s, ni\u00f1os peque\u00f1os o incluso ni\u00f1os en edad preescolar en la casa, la educaci\u00f3n en el hogar se ve muy diferente. Es m\u00e1s tranquilo, m\u00e1s silencioso, mucho m\u00e1s organizado. Bueno, todav\u00eda tengo la tendencia a ser demasiado ambicioso y espont\u00e1neo, as\u00ed que tal vez deber\u00edamos quedarnos con &quot;un poco m\u00e1s organizado&quot;. He vuelto a escribir las tareas escolares diarias en un cuaderno para cada ni\u00f1o. Las lecciones no tienen que planificarse en torno a la hora de la siesta, los cambios de pa\u00f1ales o la alimentaci\u00f3n del beb\u00e9. Terminamos a primera hora de la tarde. Y hemos vuelto a una semana de cuatro d\u00edas en su mayor parte; Los viernes son nuestros \u201cFundays\u201d.. Hacemos lecciones de arte en l\u00ednea, jugamos juegos y vemos videos educativos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Veintid\u00f3s a\u00f1os de educaci\u00f3n en el hogar quedaron atr\u00e1s; once m\u00e1s o menos est\u00e1n por delante. Sin duda es un estilo de vida para nuestra familia! nos ha encantado la<a href=\"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/blog-reasons-to-homeschool-flexibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> flexibilidad<\/a> que ofrece la educaci\u00f3n en el hogar. Si pudiera volver al principio, \u00bfqu\u00e9 har\u00eda diferente? Puede que le sorprenda que mi respuesta sea que habr\u00eda dedicado menos tiempo a actividades al aire libre. Una de las preocupaciones que escucho m\u00e1s expresada por los nuevos educadores en el hogar es poder encontrar actividades al aire libre adecuadas, pero me concentrar\u00eda m\u00e1s en proteger nuestro tiempo en casa. Disfrutar\u00eda m\u00e1s de los momentos que pas\u00e9 preocup\u00e1ndome si estaba haciendo lo suficiente. Me reir\u00eda m\u00e1s y me preocupar\u00eda menos. Hac\u00eda una copia de seguridad de mis documentos y fotos para que no se perdieran cuando la placa base de mi computadora se quemara del polvo. Pero por lo dem\u00e1s, no cambiar\u00eda nada. La educaci\u00f3n en el hogar ha sido tan maravillosa, desafiante, simple, satisfactoria, frustrante y liberadora, como esperaba que fuera. \u00bfMencion\u00e9 que yo mismo fui educado en casa? Entonces, supongo que tuve un adelanto. El adelanto me convenci\u00f3 del concepto y, por una vez, la experiencia estuvo a la altura de mis expectativas. Es con una punzada de tristeza y un coraz\u00f3n lleno de emoci\u00f3n que agrego a mi \u00faltimo estudiante al libro de registro (el que est\u00e1 en mi cabeza, de todos modos) y empiezo este curso una vez m\u00e1s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/community\/regions\/two\/frierson_jessica\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1317\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1317 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Frierson_Jessica.jpg?resize=80%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Frierson_Jessica.jpg?w=80&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Frierson_Jessica.jpg?resize=10%2C12&amp;ssl=1 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 80px) 100vw, 80px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Jessica Frierson se gradu\u00f3 de educaci\u00f3n en el hogar y ha estado educando en el hogar a sus diez hijos desde 2000. Se desempe\u00f1a como secretaria de NCHE, escribe para GREENHOUSE y es la bloguera principal del blog de NCHE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Todas las fotos por Jessica Frierson.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jessica Frierson, January 2023 This month marks the beginning of the end of an era in my life. My youngest child will turn seven in just a few days, marking the beginning of his official school years. Although we have a decade or so remaining until our youngest will graduate, the occasion is very bittersweet for me. When I began homeschooling his oldest brother in the fall of 2000, I had no idea that over twenty years later I would be starting my tenth child on their official home education journey. In many ways, I conduct our homeschool in the same manner that I did in those early years. We take a relaxed approach to education with plenty of nature study, hands-on activities, and delaying formal schooling until age seven. I learned from various sources, including Dr. Ruth Beechik, Raymond and Dorothy Moore, and Dr. David Elkind, the importance of the young child having the opportunity to learn through play until their brains and motor skills are more developed. As I have written about here, teaching each child how to read and write is one of the most thrilling experiences of my life. Many fond memories have been made over the years working with each child to master the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic, setting up science experiments, or diving into a period of history. Over the years, we have had a variety of school schedules. Initially, we schooled year-round and freely took days off to visit family out-of-state. As our family grew, the out of state visits became less frequent. Still, the year-round schedule allowed us the freedom to take time off for the arrival of a new baby, sickness in the family, or catching up on household needs. (Toddlers can wreak an amazing amount of havoc while the rest of the family is gathered around the dining table for a history lesson!)\u00a0\u00a0 As my children got older and were more involved in church and sport activities, we discovered that most of those activities were planned around the traditional school year. For several years after that, we altered our school calendar to match the traditional one more closely. Now we have come full circle and returned to the schedule that suited us most: six weeks of school followed by a two-week break. The first week off gives me a chance to tackle household chores, get the garden under control, or just catch my breath. The second week is used to go over completed school work and plan out the next six-week session.\u00a0 In a similar vein, my method of lesson planning has had a few twists and turns before returning to my original approach. One bonus of homeschooling for so many years is that I have had time to finetune what works best for our family. In the first years of homeschooling, I kept a notebook for each child in which I wrote out their assignments in each subject for each day, and we did school four days a week. Monday, a.k.a. \u201cMomday,\u201d was set aside as my day to get the week off to a good start by creating a menu for the week, pay any bills that were due, and cook double batches of a few things to put in the freezer for the busier days ahead.\u00a0 For several years after that, we had five days of school per week. This schedule meant that I had a lot of late nights trying to play catch up on all of those activities I had previously done on my Monday-Momday. These were also the years I had a child at virtually every stage possible\u2013infant, toddler, preschool, elementary, middle school, and high school. These were also the days I look back on now and say to myself, \u201cHow did I survive?!?\u201d These years were precious\u2026and crazy busy\u2026and full of memories\u2026and exhausting\u2026and wonderful.\u00a0 In those busy years, my lesson plans were put on a grid of five squares across to represent the days of the week and eight squares down for the subjects studied: language arts, math, history, science, music, handwriting, and art (yes, I tend to be over-ambitious. No, we didn\u2019t fit it in as often as I planned.) I kept the master copy of this plan and referred to it to copy into my kids\u2019 notebooks as often as I could. More often, they looked at it then went off to do their assignments. There were many days where we just winged it, with everyone just doing the next thing in each of their books. Somehow, my kids won blue ribbons and best of show in the science fair, placed first or second in the spelling bee, and played in the community orchestra. One of them won a history essay contest. I say this not to boast in our achievements but to boast in God\u2019s power to help us in our weaknesses when we are faithful to trust Him. I think each one of these events occurred shortly after a period of me feeling discouraged about effectively homeschooling my children. Now that we are beyond the years of having babies, toddlers, or even preschoolers in the house, homeschooling looks a lot different. It is calmer, quieter, much more organized\u2013well, there\u2019s still my tendency to be overly ambitious and spontaneous, so maybe we should just stick with, \u201cslightly more organized.\u201d I have gone back to writing out daily school assignments in a notebook for each child. Lessons don\u2019t have to be planned around naptime, diaper changes, or feeding the baby. We are finished by early afternoon. And we have returned to a four-day week for the most part; Fridays are our \u201cFundays.\u201d. We do online art lessons, play games, and watch educational videos. Twenty-two years of homeschooling are behind me; eleven or so lie ahead. It is certainly a lifestyle for our family! We have loved the flexibility that homeschool offers. If I could go back to the beginning, what would I do differently? It may surprise you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[105,113,117,154,159,232,233,245,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nche-blog","category-encouragement","category-getting-started","category-young-children","category-teaching-strategies","category-schedule","category-reasons-to-homeschool","category-family-life","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgvs5H-90d","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34609"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34698,"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34609\/revisions\/34698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nche.com\/es_pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}