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Sunday, July 03, 2011

Library.

The public library can be a homeschooler's BFF. First of all, they have books that they will lend you for free. I mean how cool is that? Also they have DVDs, music, audio books, digital downloads and magazines. At our library, each library card holder can check out 25 items at a time and the late fee for overdue books is 5 cents per day. If I need a particular book for my curriculum (or just for fun!) and they don't have it, our library will get it for me. Either they will purchase it and let me check it out first, or they will get it on interlibrary loan. They have summer reading programs, game nights, craft classes, knitting and quilting classes, history lectures and the list goes on and on. Can you tell I enjoy the library? For the next two weeks, I'll probably be there twice because they are having 2 different kids programs.The library is the first place I check when I want to read, listen to or watch something.

2 comments:

Amy said...: Dang....only 5 cents?! Ours has gone up...trying encourage folks to bring them back on time. It used to be .10 per day....now it's .25!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ridiculous, I tell you!; 4:19 PM
:)De said...: I love our library too and there is no late fee, but if you don't return the book 30 days after the due date they send you a "thank you for your purchase" invoice with the cost of the book. LOL!; 7:13 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."

Sunday, July 03, 2011

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