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Tuesday, January 03, 2012

5 Good Things.

5 things that were good about today.
1. I woke up in a better mood today. No blahs. This is critical to how the day turns out. Sometimes I just have a funk wash over me and I can't seem to do much about it. Thankfully, not today.
2. I made vegetable soup. It's good. I used up a can of peas that didn't have a label on it. I had been wondering what was in there and in the hopes that it was a vegetable, I opened it today. That worked out. Pineapple would have been weird in the soup. :-)
3. The kids did their schoolwork with minimal nagging from me. There was some nagging but not too awful much.
4. We have finished the read aloud of the 39 Clues book that is a book that I have to read and have gotten to the next one which we have on audiobook and I can listen (and possibly fall asleep).
5. The mail came today and I got 2 of the books I ordered myself for Christmas. One is a gluten free recipe book and the other is a Katie Fforde book that I haven't read yet. I enjoy her books, which are romantic comedy.

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:)De said...: Every once in a while we get a box of can goods donated to us and several will not have labels. The kids and I have turned it into a game of "mystery can" where every one gets a guess and then we make a big deal of opening it to see what we have. The rule is we eat it with our meal no matter what. Lets just say we have opened things that we didn't even know were canned. LOL! If they had labels...no one would open then.

good list!

Peace; 11:45 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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