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Thursday, March 19, 2009

I don't know.

I'm just not really happy with the way school is going right now. The kids are doing the work okay, with a lot of nagging and reminding, but I haven't really been involved with it much. I wrote this schedule when I was working a lot and now that I'm not working at the hospital and I'm home more, I feel like I want to get involved more and do some fun things. We've had a lot of fun in the past, but now we're not having any fun with school. It's been blah. On the other hand, my list is going well, the exercising and the cleaning, cooking, etc. I'm going to leave it the way it is, but I might change up the kids lists some, to allow for some fun in learning.

Our school has a name, the 3D Academy since all of the kid's names start with D. I was thinking of making T shirts with this on them and trying to come up with a motto. Anyone got any good motto ideas?

3 comments:

:)De said...: I love hearing how people come up with school names. We became the MHS Rotties because our dog would always sit right in the middle of our classroom and snore during lessons, causing great laughter. What is something you all love together? or favorite song,saying, title.; 8:02 PM
A Bishops Wife said...: Maybe you just need a breather.

Home schooling is hard work but maybe it should be a bit relaxed too.

Your a great mom-teacher. I wish I did half the things you find time to do.

I still remember the cool paper machet masks you did with the kids.
You are great.; 9:39 PM
private said...: Send them to school to learn. If you are as tired as you sound on your blog, it is probably in their best interest.

cheers!
WLM; 5:45 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."

Thursday, March 19, 2009

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