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Saturday, August 06, 2005

Saturday School.

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I didn't plan to have any school related activities today, since it is Saturday but I had ordered a copy of the Oregon Trail game from Ebay for a very good price and it was delivered today. It goes along with our Resourcefulness unit, the subunit on the pioneers that we have been studying in the KONOS book. The kids played it for a couple of hours this afternoon and really enjoyed it. At one time I heard my oldest son exclaim "I wish I'd quit shooting myself!" and my daughter at one time said "60 dollars for a milk cow, that's crazy!" Anyway, a little school related play went on here this afternoon.

We didn't really celebrate my daughter's birthday today because the only time her friends could come to the party was tomorrow, so we'll celebrate it tomorrow. It should be a lot of fun.

In other news, I messed up my margins on this blog again and got the sidebar all out of whack. If any of my fellow bloggers could please tell me how to fix it, I'd be most grateful. :-)

2 comments:

Janet said...: Saturday morning is one of our most productive homeschool times of the week! Whatever and whenever works, right?

BTW, the game sounds neat.; 10:56 PM
Fatcat said...: Yep. We get in a lot of extra school time, mainly with our nightly reading sessions. It's all good.; 6:50 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."

Saturday, August 06, 2005

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