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Wednesday, July 13, 2005

A Catalog.

Home*School*Home
At the homeschool meeting the other night, another homeschool mom shared with me a catalog full of homeschool supplies. It is wonderful. There are so many things in there I want. I can sit for hours, looking at it and circling things, just like I was when I was a child, circling things in the Sears Wishbook. So fun! I'm still trying to decide on math curriculum, so I've been looking at that. So many choices. I may just have to open the book and point randomly to one, because I don't know if I'll be able to decide.

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Mrs. Happy Housewife said...: Circling products in homeschooling catalogs is one of my favorite activities. For math, we use Ray's Arithmetic from Mott's Media. I bought mine cheap on ebay. They're filled with word problems (like real life)and don't have distracting colors and pictures on every page. We also use math drill worksheets once a week from here: http://www.schoolhousetech.com/products/basicfacts/index.htm. For summer we're working through School Zone Math Basics workbooks from Walmart. My workbook-deprived kids think these are great.; 12:31 PM
Fatcat said...: Circling things in this catalog is much more fun than I would have thought. There is so much cool stuff in it.

I'm thinking of going with the Key To Math with my 2 older kids. My 8-year-old is a bit ahead and my 12-year-old is a bit behind, so they are right about the same level.

I'm still not sure. I'll see if my book (Rainbow Resource Center) has Ray's.; 10:44 PM
Mrs. Happy Housewife said...: I like the Key to Series, also. I tried Miquon at first but it seemed to make math harder instead of easier.; 10:01 AM

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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."

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