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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
In the fall of 1988 Britton Wood started kindergarten. He hated school from the first day.
His mother, former elementary teacher Diane Wood, was not happy either. When she asked him what he had done in school, all he seemed to be able to show for a day in school was a stack of worksheets. When Christmas vacation time came, she decided to take him out of school and teach him at home.
Mrs. Wood is part of what seems to be a growing trend towards home Schooling.
Britton is now doing third grade work at home. His younger brother Samuel is doing first grade work. Mrs. Wood uses the Open Court reading series. She says she likes this curriculum because it includes a heavy emphasis on phonics and incorporates punctualtion and grammar. She attended a workshop to learn to use the materials.
For mathematics she uses Miquon, a program that emphasizes hands-on laboratory work and follows with written work. ,■ “For everything else, we’re on our own,” Mrs. Wood said. “We use trade books, library books, field trips. The thing I love best is the freedom to pursue what comes up spontaneously. This past January we went on a morning walk. We found amazing ice crystals and pulled some off the wall. We measured them in inches and centimeters; we timed how long it took them to melt. They drew pictures of them in their journals.”
She gets help from her husband James Wood in the evenings. “He does a neverending saga of ‘Jimmy the Skunk’ stories,” she said. The animal characters in these stories
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