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Tuesday, December 04, 2007

The view from here.

This was the view from my kitchen window today, both of our girl cats, Zoey and Xena.

We're going to do school today and do a good job of it too. It seems like homeschooling has been getting the short end around here lately. Anyway, today we're going to get something done. I just know it.

Hopefully.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: Hope your confidence spilled over into a great day! December is a little tough because there are so many other things going on...we try to incorporate as much of it into school as possible.

Dana
Principled Discovery; 11:10 PM
Freakmom said...: Did you get anything done? I still say we should all give up until January!; 9:49 AM
Anonymous said...: Wonder what they're looking at...; 8:09 AM
Fatcat said...: See the next post for what we got done.

I say we hibernate until March!

I think Zoey's looking at Xena like "Hey, this is my window sill". I don't know what Xena's looking at. Probably scanning for field mice.; 10:41 AM
Amy said...: Can I just DITTO what Freakmom said......I have such a terrible time getting much of anything done during the month of Dec. I'm doing a couple of units from the Homeschool Estore.....one on the Grinch & one about St. Nick. The kids are enjoying it & they ARE still learning!; 11:01 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."

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

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