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Vista Home School Support

Vista Home School Support
1906 Gopher Canyon Rd, Vista, CA 92084
Vista Home School Support
Vista
1906 Gopher Canyon Rd
Btwn Night Heron & Little Gopher Canyon
Vista, California 92084

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When it comes to educational methods we have probably done it all. Some of it not for very long, but we at least tasted everything on the plate.

We are not fans of textbooks. We do use them, sometimes, for certain things, but reading and real-world experiences are far more meaningful to us.

We do like worksheets. It's not like that's the best method for learning, and sometimes they seem a waste of time, but they are easy, and I do have a lot of fun materials. The kids know how to run the xerox machine and the packets are easy to take in the car. It's also easy to make bite-sized pieces and move on to something else after we have done a few packets.

We love reading. The girls are working their way through the public library. One daughter spends her allowance on books. Our house is also a library, although for some reason they still check out books that we own. I guess they all want their own copies!

I can't keep up with them, I just buy them leather book bags and rejoice that I don't assign book reports or grade papers! Fortunately they enjoy reading historical fiction as well as fantasy and sci-fi, so they do learn quite a bit this way.
Projects and reenactments are our favorite way of learning, and we did this for many years at our house along with other families. But it is quite tiring and can be expensive. I hope to find the energy to do at least some of it again. We had so much fun with science fairs and Boston Tea Parties and chasing escaped slaves and gold panning in our creek and old time photos and making pine-needle baskets and starting flint fires and making our own soap...

Group classes are great. We would not want to spend all of our time that way but they definitely work for certain subjects. We try to always have a few classes going on somewhere, either here or with friends.

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