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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Free!

Today, for the first time in many days, we don't have anything written on our calendar. It's nice. We can just do whatever we want today. It will include getting our work and school done this morning and then we can pretty much be free. It's a nice feeling. We may go and get mine and my daughter's hair cut. (The boys all got buzzed this weekend.) We may go get a few more gardening supplies and maybe some vacation-walking-shoes because we're going to need some comfortable shoes or, we just might laze around and not do much of anything. We've earned it. I wish our pool was up. We'd do that.

3 comments:

Freakmom said...: I love nothing days!; 1:31 PM
Red said...: It's so funny, I do not use a calender. That is not to say I am scatter-brained (OK, maybe a bit), but I love the freedom I have in not looking at that darned calender and living by it.

I still get my chores done, gert my son to work, and all the other things people 'with' calenders do, but I am just a bit more relaxed.

I see those folks and they are watch-lookers. I feel for those people.; 2:15 PM
Fatcat said...: I used to be calendar free, then I got adult onset ADD or something and now I am calendar dependent. It helps the kids know what's going on too.; 10:18 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, June 03, 2008

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