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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Nice.

I'm enjoying this down-time week. My husband and I have returned to work, but we're not schooling and we don't really have much of anything (actually, nothing at all!) scheduled until the weekend. No 4H. No co-ops. No group meetings. I don't mind any of those things and, in fact, like most of them, but it is nice not to have any for a few days. Next week, we'll be stir crazy and ready to get out and go, I'm sure.

This is the week I need to be thinking about any new subjects for January. My daughter has finished spelling and now needs some other kind of language arts instruction. I need to look into that. I also 'need' to spend my Christmas gift cards soon. :-P

3 comments:

:)De said...: It is nice to not have meetings and appointments. Thanks for all your comments. Have a great rest of the week.

Peace; 2:58 PM
Freakmom said...: Have you come up with new lang. arts yet? We like the lang. arts from Critical Thinking Company a lot, but I don't know if you were thinking of spending any money.

What about having her do crossword puzzles or making up her own? That sure seems like vocabulary and spelling all in one.; 10:57 PM
Fatcat said...: I haven't looked in to language arts yet at all. :-(

I need to. I'll look at the Critical Thinking Company. Thanks.; 10:25 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."

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