Where we are with our homeschool journey

Term time starts in April here, we took August off so this is where we are this September:

• ⭐️ Core subjects (Grade 3 Junior High): Maths, Japanese, and Science using Study Sapuri (in Japanese). He also uses Khan Academy for maths because he doesn't like the Japanese math teacher.
• ⭐️ English: He reads daily, works through a workbook together with me, and is doing a creative writing class on Outschool this term.
• ⭐️ French: After 300 days of Spanish, he decided to switch to French! He does daily lessons on Duolingo. Once he has the basics down, we will look for a conversation class.
• ⭐️ Humanities (High School): He is about halfway through those, so he will continue with them in Japanese using Study Sapuri.
• ⭐️ Game Theory: He has gotten really interested in this over the last couple of months. After researching it, we signed him up for a course on Coursera to go deeper (research in Japanese, course in English).
• ⭐️ Culinary Arts: Still a favourite! He is working through all the chefs on MasterClass and experimenting a lot in the kitchen (mostly English).
• ⭐️ PE: Aikido twice a week, climbing 3 times a week, plus home training to build muscle for climbing.
• ⭐️ Coding & Robotics: Lego Mindstorms EV3 with Zkai, alongside live lectures and classes debating various topics (Japanese).
• ⭐️ Occasional classes: With JUNEC (Japanese).
• ⭐️ Art: I signed up for an art course on Domestika and he has been joining in.

I think that is it! Looks like a lot, but some of these are just once or twice a month. He is enjoying being able to pick and mix whatever he wants to study and learn at his own pace.

Ebi-kun is happy. I would say the only downside is that he doesn't see his friends so much now—we knew this would happen and unfortunately, there are not many homeschoolers his age around.

We have developed a routine: he does the bulk of his studying in the morning while I work. We stop for lunch, and after eating, we watch a TED talk or Masterclass. Then we go bouldering, do something together, or he works on a project. In the evening, he meets online with his mates to play games and hang out—normal teenage boy stuff!

And that is it.

I've been missing the blog, so I plan to pop by more often. I miss just sitting down first thing and banging out a blog post! TBH my work blog is a lot of work—I have to consider keywords, SEO, the right titles, and all that jazz, which really sucks the fun out of things!

So over here it will just be my rambles and rants, like the good old days!

If you are reading, please drop me a comment, I'd love to re-connect with my old followers.

Keep being wonderful,
Jo

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