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Friday, June 26, 2009

This and that.

I managed to get all of my phone calls made yesterday. This is a big deal for me as I hate making phone calls. I really, really hate it. Anyway, that's done. Today's the last day of summer reading at the library and maybe next week, we'll start getting some of these home improvement projects done. Nah. Something else will probably happen. I still haven't looked at my Rainbow Resource catalog much at all. I have some vague plans in my mind for what to do next year, but nothing at all concrete. I really, really, really want to go on a vacation and then come back and start on the projects and the planning, but that's been put on hold for a while, until we see how everyone's job situations around here are going to go. I hate this recession.

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Freakmom said...: I hate the recession too. It stinks that we are all being punished for others' greed. I have a hard time with it somedays, like this week. :)

Try to enjoy the summer anyway. I got through my RR catalog yesterday (skipping some parts, but reading lots). It was wonderful! I wonder if I can list it on my summer reading program book list for a raffle ticket at the library. ;); 12:32 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."

Friday, June 26, 2009

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