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Age and grade why so picky?
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I am praying this post won’t offend anyone, but I do need some advice as I and my daughter are having conflict on her grade and age. She turned 10 in late May this year and so many people ask ” What grade are you in”? Why? I have her starting the 4th grade this year. I just felt like she was a little young to advance to 5th. Also, I have a daughter who just turned 7 in March. What grade should she be in? I didn’t really start much with her until around 6 with all of our life stuff going on. When is the graduation age? Do they have to graduate at 17 or can we do two years of high school? Having a rough time this year I guess. Please pray for me as we have a happy time of our oldest getting married and starting on our journey in foster care. I just hope this decision doesn’t hinder our school time to much. How much do they need at 13, 10 , 7? Debating a lot of thing right now? Should I do cm History or something else, should I….. Thanks for all the support on here. I also wonder if its okay just to be home this year and not do any extra activities? Will it harm them for social? So sorry to put so much in one post. Blessing
First, just tell people the grade she would be in at a public school. It’s nobody business what level she’s doing in various subjects. Keep it simple when you answer.
Second, you can look around at various scope and sequences to get an idea of what various programs require. OR just keep focused on CM and SCM and don’t look around. Keep your eyes on the endgame, and on this plan. The more you look around, the more you lose focus. Keep it simple this year. Stick to your plan, you can reflect and adjust at the end of the year, or at the end of the term.
Finally, keeping them home without any outside activities will not harm them. They are learning social skills at home, within the basic societal institution that God created – the family. There will be time for outside activities, for church and service, when you are ready. Don’t second guess yourself or what God is calling you to. Keep your focus and move forward in confidence that you are being obedient. 🙂 your children will do great. They will do even better with a mom who is confident in her decisions and her goals for them. They will feel secure the more you feel free to do as think is best, without worry over what is expected or normal. 🙂
I always tell people they are in whichever grade they would be in had they gone to public school. This is how we place them in Sunday school, VBS, or sports as well. My DC tend to do schoolwork in multiple grades depending on the curriculum itself as well as the subject…not to mention much of what we do is for multiple grade levels anyway.
Lately, when it comes to scheduling curriculum, I’ve been considering them more in terms of Form I, Form II, etc. The PNEU schools used these instead of grades K-12, and I’m beginning to see that they make more sense than our current system of advancing one grade per year. This has been more helpful for me to decide which subjects to include for each child as well as which subjects to combine multiple children in.
This is a rough division of the Forms…I’m guessing the overlap in ages was to place them where they best fit.
Form I – ages 6-9 or grades 1-3
Form II- ages 9-12/13 or grades 4-6
Form III/IV- ages 13/14-15 or grades 7-9
Form V- ages 16-18 or grades 10-12
Since this is so different than what is used in public school, I wouldn’t want to explain it to everyone who asks what grade they are in. 😉 I’ll continue to say they whichever grade they are in based on public school cutoffs.
We have to report a grade on our yearly notification, so we just use whichever grade the kids would be in public school. Then we don’t think about it much. People are just used to thinking about grades instead of ages for kids, so we just go with it and don’t make it a big deal. When people ask my kids what grade they are in, the kids sometimes say “Umm…4 I think,” usually looking to me for confirmation, or they just answer with their age. Other than communicating with the non-homeschooling world, it’s meaningless.
As for the social thing, only you can really know, because it depends on the family. My son could happily be home alone all year without any negative effects. My girls, especially my extroverted 5yo, would go absolutely crazy. They crave friendships. So we have a select group that we get together with and a few carefully chosen activities. For example, we chose group violin lessons over private lessons for my DD9. But we do limit activities to just what we think are particularly important.
We’re not big on grades either so we just say the kids are whatever they would have been had we put them in public school. That means depending on when their birthday is they hit Kindergarten at age 5/6. Our church divides kids by birthdays as of January 1 of a year, so everyone born in a particular year is a class. That means you have kids in two different grades easily. However it doesn’t really matter. In most subjects my kids are doing a variety of grade levels.
So here are my kids ages/grades for this year.
- Grade 9 age 14 (June birthday)
- Grade 5 age 10 (October birthday will turn 11)
- Grade 4 age 9 (December birthday will turn 10)
- Grade 2 age 7 (October birthday will turn 8)
- Grade 1 age 6 (Feb birthday)
- Then I have all the little boys who just tag along. They are 4, 3, and 2 years old and I’ll have baby #9 this fall as well. (Yes, 4 kids age 4 and under. Again. There is never a dull moment around my house!)
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