Homeschool in Brooklyn

Active Poster Joined: Dec 26 2010 Posts: 36 Location: NY

anyone in Brooklyn that is or planning on homeschooling??

I know I have a crazy amount of schools to choose from but any that DH and I discuss I'm not happy with , what can I say ? I'm a really picky Mama

Posted: Tue, May 22 2012, 2:09 pm Post subject: re: homeschool in Brooklyn

My dh and I were discussing it. I don't know if I have enough patience for it all week though. Maybe if there were a "round robin" sort of thing where I taught 1 or 2 days a week.

That's as far as I've planned, which wasn't much.

Diamond Member Joined: Dec 18 2005 Posts: 2927

I just joined a jewish orthodox homeschooling yahoo group, someone there recently introduced herself as hs'ing in brooklyn
maybe look for the group on yahoogroups, join and ask there

Active Poster Joined: Dec 26 2010 Posts: 36 Location: NY

that would be interesting..... I was looking to see who would answer and put together a "social" group....

Active Poster Joined: Mar 12 2008 Posts: 58

I'm homeschooling in Brooklyn. How old are your kids?

Gold Member Joined: Mar 23 2007 Posts: 1875 Location: NY

Maybe look for a homeschool coop?

http://homeschool.lifetips.com/cat/64324/homeschool-co-op/index.html
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Posted: Thu, May 31 2012, 7:49 pm Post subject: Re: re: homeschool in Brooklyn

Active Poster Joined: Mar 12 2008 Posts: 58

My kids are 5 and 3, so we usually only spend a couple of hours on lessons, and then we go somewhere.

Active Poster Joined: Nov 16 2011 Posts: 65

there is another homeschooling blogger in brooklyn..

http://jewishhomeschoolnyc.blogspot.com/

with weekly schedule of activities and prsha projects

Beginner Joined: Oct 23 2012 Posts: 2

HI! So I am the person behind the homeschool blog mommyima mentioned. Thank you for sharing my blog: http://jewishhomeschoolnyc.blogspot.com/. We are homeschooling our 3.5 and almost 2 year old girls. We are having tons of fun creating different parsha projects and craft ideas and constantly learning from our surroundings. As for the person above who mentioned having enough patience, I'll tell you that it is a daily struggle for me, but I really see it as my nisayon (test). Being with my little children for so many hours gives me many opportunities to work on myself. As for get togethers with other homeschoolers-we do that 3 days a week and its a fun and supportive network of mothers. For anyone who is considering homeschooling, I would love to tell you more about our experience, you can message me here or at speech12@gmail.com

Beginner Joined: Oct 23 2012 Posts: 2

Also, I know that since my girls are so young, it really isn't technically homeschooling. Just to clarify I call it homeschooling for lack of a better term and because here in Brooklyn, most of the people I know do send their kids to "school" at 2 if not younger. So this is "mommy school" in contrast to playgroup.Does that make sense? There is no rigid curriculum or seat work or anything like that. Tons of playing, books, crafts, science experiments, etc