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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Impromptu History Lesson

Last night and today my youngest son has been watching This is America Charlie Brown which we have on DVD. It's pretty interesting and informative. I enjoy Snoopy as a wild west cowboy with a mustache. :-) We also have The Story of Us on DVD but someone has borrowed that. After we watched the part about the transcontinental railroad today, we took a few minutes to look at the Amtrak website and daydreamed about taking a cross country trip by rail. That is something I'd like to experience some day.

Now screen time is over so the kids have gone outside to enjoy the sunshine. It's really a beautiful day for January.

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Freakmom said...: We have that DVD too, and also really like it. We have the Story of Us,but it was too much for Violet when we tried watching it. She's never been one for visual scenes, they bother her easily (she didn't even see an entire movie, even a Disney cartoon,until she was 6). I enjoyed as far as we got in the series. Maybe when she goes to college I'll finish it. :); 1:31 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, January 29, 2012

Impromptu History Lesson

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