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Saturday, June 05, 2010

School's Out.

We finished our school year with the homeschool fair and book sale. It was nice, but I didn't enjoy it as much as usual. I didn't find the extremely good prices I sometimes find, I don't know, I just walked around and looked at everything, but I ddn't want any of it. I don't know if it was just me? I could not work up an interest in any of it. I am acutely conscious that we are on the down-slope of homeschooling now. This next year will be my oldest son's last year, my daughter's starting high school and my youngest will be in 7th grade.

It is going to be such a hot, hot summer. I have to work at my Mom's (which I am not particularly happy about) and she turns her air conditioning off every night before she goes to bed and when I get there every morning, it's burning up. If I turn the air on when I get there, it's starting to get cool before I leave. Also, the air conditioner is out in our van completely and barely works in my husband's car. so I feel like I am burning up all the time. We might get our pool up today, but it's not really practical to move my lap top into it and work, darn it.

2 comments:

Miekie said...: What are you going to do at your Mom's? You sound a bit down... I know how tapping heat can be! We close for a whole month on Friday for our winter vacation. (Normally we only have 3 weeks off, but now with the World Cup, all schools - and even Parliament -will close for the duration of the world cup!)
Right now I'm sitting behind my laptop and I'm freezing. Our winters are not cold enough to warrant central heating or air con, so we make do with portable heaters, but we've been out tonight, so no heaters have been switched on and boy, is the house cold! I wish we could trade a few grades Celcius!
Did you sell your used homeschool books or go to a booksale? It sounds to me as if you still have several years of home schooling left with the younger two?; 4:22 PM
Fatcat said...: It's so funny to think we're in summer and you're in winter! Yes, I wish we could trade a few degrees of temperature. It's 91 Fahrenheit here today and very humid.

I didn't sell any books at the book sale, just browsed the ones other people had for sale. We're kind of nontraditional in the way we homeschool, so the books that were for sale this time just didn't fit my style, I guess.; 6:06 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."

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