I want to move to Victoria

I have had an epiphany I want to move to Victoria. Trying to fit in the silly rules of the NSW BOS is just abhorent to me. I cannot take it anymore. I have found my feet I know what I want to teach and how I want to teach it. Will he know what all the other year 1 kids know by the end of year 1 well probably not, but he will know different things, and probably more. But the exact topics that are suppose to be taught in year 1 no. Will he know them by the end of primary school most definitely yes. I want to teach in the order that works for us. That is interesting and workable for my family. I started homeschooling so that my children do not have to fit in ridiculously rigid boxes. But I find myself constantly trying to do it. Whether it be in preparation or retrospectively trying to tick off and date the silly boxes. I HATE it I want it to end, it takes all the joy out of schooling. It takes all the learning out of schooling. He doesn't want to do it their way and so he doesn't learn, he completes but he does not learn.

I want to live in our bubble, our beautifully flexible bubble. I want to teach history chronologically. I want to imerse into specific areas of science and study and learn them with true knowledge and understanding and not skim over a million little topics.

My Children will learn, they will learn so so much if the BOS would just let me teach them. And teach them in the ways my children need.

 Today my new textbooks turned up. I had a buy all the books episode a few weeks ago. I was so excited with the new resources I had found I couldn't decide which would be best to use. So I bought them all to read through properly. I found the ones I want to use. But trying to make them fit with the NSW syllabus is making my brain hurt and my heart ache. It should not be this hard. These programs are great.

The only way I can see that works is to double our lessons. Cover the BOS requirements as dirty and as fast as we can. Then sit and enjoy the lessons and things we want to learn. The trouble is this creates so much work for the kids, and so much attitude from having to do the boring things just so I can tick off the boxes. It is not fair.

If you want to see part of my book haul (some are still on the way) read on...

Science

Purposeful design Science.

This book looks like a great holistic approach to science. It looks detailed and interesting. I think we will use this book alongside answers in Genesis next year. There are 83 lessons in the Level 1 book.

Australian Curriculum Science

This is a great box ticker book, it links to the national curriculum BUT not the NSW one which is coded differently and worded so every slightly differently. Do I use this book as well so I can tick the boring boxes. Some of the content looks good. It is not a bad book, I would happily use it but I prefer the other books. This book is offered from Foundation/Kindy through to year 6. There are 40 lessons in the Year 1 book.

Answers in Gensis

This is the first of the 12 books in the Series. It is beautifully presented and I love the immersion style of the book. Focussing on one topic at a time. There are 34 Lessons in this first book.

History

The Story of the World.

Looks well aimed at any primary level, Read to them early on and they can read for themselves later. I am not sure about the activity book that you can buy to go along with it. I am thinking of just reading and discussing them them. Who wants to do a worksheet for everything really. There are 4 volumes and the first has 42 chapters.

The Mystery of History

Wow this book is a big book. Was a little overwhelming at first. There seems to be so much info. I am not sure on this book at the moment. I think it could be used with younger kids but it moves a little slower than SOTW that I think it might be better with older kids. There are 3 volumes and the first volume has 108 lessons.

and this is what all this does to me