Home*School*Home: An Award!

Monday, February 07, 2011

An Award!

I received a blog award from :)De! (I love her blog name!)

Upon receiving this award, I am supposed to:

1) Thank, and link back to the person who awarded it.
Thank you :)De!

2) Share 7 things about myself. (after this many years of blogging, I don't know if I'll be able to share anything original. :-)
1. I took my daughter to a 4H needleworking class today. She learned to do counted cross stitch. Of the 7 kids there, 4 were homeschoolers.
2. I am cold pretty much all the time. Despite that, I eat ice pretty much all the time. I'm sure that the two are not related.
3. I live on a part of my grandparents farm which bordered my husband's grandparents farm.
4. My favorite board game is Upwords.
5. I love being a mom.
6. Paulanne is my middle name.
7. My daughter makes me go to bed at 10:00!

3) Award 10 great bloggers.
You know I'm going to cheat and say you're all tagged! I'm too lazy to look at blog lists. Besides, it's 10:00 and I have to go to bed. :-P   All the blogs in my sidebar are great and should consider themselves tagged. All other blogs that I haven't gotten around to adding to my sidebar because I'm a busy, working, homeschooling mom, should also consider themselves tagged. Go!

4) Contact these bloggers and tell them about the award.
See above.

1 comment:

Amy said...: LOL.....I've come to award you too.......& I see you've already been awarded. Hey, you're tagged again because I think you deserve it!! :-)

I just awarded you the Stylish Blog Award! Check out my blog and get the details.; 9:23 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."

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