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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Maxing out our library cards.

I've been strewing art and space books around the house for the kids to read, really just bringing them home from the library and putting them on the couch. They've been doing a lot of looking at the art books especially and doing some of the drawing exercises in them. We probably have at least 50 library books in the house at the current time. Each of our 5 cards can have 25 books on them. My card, as the one everyone uses when they can't find their own, is on my keychain for easy access and I currently have 26 books checked out. I'm not sure how that happened, that I'm one book over, but oh well. We'll probably be back in there in the next couple of days for more books. Right now, I'm reading "Fat Families, Thin Families" and I have a book on traveling in the southeast and one on using the internet to promote a business for free. I've also got the second Pendragon book to read and the third of the "Things Not Seen" trilogy to read.

2 comments:

Freakmom said...: Thank goodness we don't have a limit on books (there are limits for other materials). I currently have 32 books checked out. We do have a limit on how many holds we can have at once. I have 13 on hold now (nine are waiting for me to pick them up tomorrow). Our limit is 25.

I'm trying to get them to put a return box in my front yard.; 11:28 AM
Fatcat said...: That box the front yard sounds like a very good idea, although where we live, back here in the boonies, it might be kinda weird. :-); 11:53 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."

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Maxing out our library cards.

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