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Sunday, May 08, 2005

Happy Mother's Day

Home*School*Home

First of all, happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there. I hope it is a good one! I also hope everyone had a fun Derby day yesterday. We sure did! Is that just a Kentucky thing?

We looked last night for the space station again, and again, no luck. We saw about 5 jets go by, but the area where the space shuttle was supposed to be was pretty much blocked by trees. I guess next time it is coming to our area, we need to go somewhere else to look for it. :-/

We're off today to celebrate Mother's Day with my mom and my husband's mom so I probably won't be around a lot today. Have a good mom's day everyone!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Happy Mother's Day to you 2! I hope a lot of great memories were made.; 5:50 PM
Fatcat said...: Thanks!; 8:28 PM

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Homeschooling Advice.

1. Try it. You might enjoy it. It might change your life. It might not be your thing, but you won't know if you don't ever try.

2. Find out what your state (or country) requires, the bare minimum. Do this and then with the rest of it, have fun with it. It doesn't have to be all serious and it doesn't have to look like the inside of a classroom. You're at home. Relax. Play. Read. Learn together. Enjoy your kids. They grow up way too fast.

3. Don't let a written curriculum boss you around. If it works, great. If it's not working for you, throw it out. If only parts of it work, use those and throw the rest out. It's not the boss of you. When shopping for curriculum, read reviews. Try to go somewhere where you can actually hold the book in your hands and look through it. Print out a sample day or week and try and implement it or borrow it before buying. It's kind of hit and miss buying books without being able to see them.

4. Find a homeschool support group. Or two. If you can't find one in real life, find one online. Get support where ever you can.

5. Make a mess now and then. Go outside and put some mentos in coke. Make alka-seltzer rockets. Make some great art. Make a timeline and a map. Grow some borax crystals. Use levers to lift things. Make a trebuchet out of whatever you can find around the house.

6. Go on as many field trips as you can.

The point of this blog.

"there is a theme, if you read, you'll get a growing conviction that homeschooling is a lifestyle that is worthwhile, that it is extremely good for kids and families, that it promotes bonding, is a personalized education that is superior to what you can get anywhere else for your kids, is fun and can be done even if you have a 400 track mind, no math skills (thankfully my husband does though), through working, job changes, bad hair days, home remodeling, deaths, illness, surgery, broken bones and various other things and it actually makes dealing with these things easier, not harder, than it was when we were in the public schools, because homeschooling is so incredibly flexible. That's the point I've been trying to make for the last 5 years or so."

Sunday, May 08, 2005

Happy Mother's Day

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