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Monday, November 22, 2010

This looks interesting.

This book site that someone shared on the Homeschool Lounge.

Books Should Be Free

I also like Daily Lit and Project Gutenberg

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Carolyn said...: Our eldest son is living in Japan for three months. He also enjoys audiobooks. I thought you might enjoy some of his recommendations.

http://yeomanscholar.blogspot.com/2010/11/haiku-literary-criticism-ambiguity.html; 7:55 AM
The Etiquette Factory said...: Hello,
My name is Monica Irvine. I am the owner of The Etiquette Factory. I have visited your blog and really like your postings. I am a brand new blogger with little experience, so I was wondering if you would be interested in allowing me to offer your followers some "freebies" (I was thinking of our Etiquette Jukebox CD, which is so fun), and I would also love to offer you an article from time to time if you're interested. I author a monthly column in Everything Knoxville and I also write for the Home Educating Family Magazine. My articles focus on ideas of how to teach proper manners in the home. I specialize in helping parents teach their children manners. I'm also a home school mom myself. Please check out my website at: www.TheEtiquetteFactory.com and my blog at: www.TheEtiquetteFactory.blogspot.com. ; My blog's not quite as organized as I would like yet, but once again, I'm new at this. Thank you for your time and I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Monica; 11:23 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."

Monday, November 22, 2010

This looks interesting.

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