Not Another Homeschool Blog

Here's a bit of a flashback from the beginning of our homeschool journey: Perhaps I should not have informed the teachers I planned to pull my children out of school months in advance. I believe it did more harm than good considering the steps one teacher took to keep my child in the system. This caused a lot of frustration on both my part and the teacher's. I was at a conference with my daughter's teacher when she really got under my skin. She and several teachers before her had hinted strongly that my daughter needed to be tested for ADHD and medicated. She talked about how she ignored her own son's problems until it was too late, and how she did not want the same thing to happen to my daughter. She was a sweet woman really, and prefaced every single word with "bless her heeaaaart" when referring to my daughter. Finally she sighed and said; "I don't know how she will be admitted into second grade without medication." "Fine", I said, ...

My kids aren't getting much of a break this summer, but I don't think they've realized it yet. My daughter is still working on www.time4learning.com this summer, but at a slower pace. She is also doing summer bridge workbook in her spare time. My son is using the Summer Bridge book as well, and has a tutor he is meeting with a few times this summer to break some bad habits before 8th grade math. He also decided to do the critical thinking "reading detective" workbook as well. Who am I to stop them.. here is where It gets sneaky on my part. My daughter is doing a pageant at the end of the month and I am having her write her introduction. I suggested an acrostic poem. So she learns a bit about poetry this summer and gets some writing done. Also, she has a bad habit of asking me alot of really good questions, and If I don't give her an answer, she just forgets it. I gave her a question notebook and told her I would reward her weekly based on how many of her que...

Does An Ivy League Education Mean A Better Salary? Is the question asked in the WCCO - Minneapolis,MN,USA website. The story is about a young man named Robert Binion who with SAT scores of 1580, and a GPA of 4.27 could go to any college he pleased. He chose a local state college because it would cost him nothing. He could have gone to Harvard at the cost of $200,000.00, but questioned the value in the end. Was this a smart choice? Well, Lorraine Hastings a Princeton economists pointed out that “ the wages of adults who, 20 years earlier, were in college… didn't depend on where you went to school, but how hard you work.” In the same way you could say that WHERE the student spends his elementary, MIDDLE & high school career will not be affected in his potential income but instead have hard he works. Meanwhile Studies show that… Home Schooling Keeps Students, Parents Closer: “ home schooling is not just academics “.

FIGURE IT OUR YOURSELF! Well not exactly. I had the opportunity to advise a woman who was strongly considering homeschooling her son. She lives in one of my old hometowns, and my Sis n law gave her my number as she is one of her clients at the Oxford learning center sis owns. Her complaints about school mirrored the problems my son had. The child is obviously gifted or at least already knows everything they are teaching. However, the school thinks it's ok for him to settle with getting the highest grades in the class and not challenging him any further. Therefore she wants to take his education into her own hands. My exact advice was to wait a little while. Since They are one semester in, I suggested she wait until holiday break while enriching him at home using Reader rabbit at an advanced level and critical thinking books and software. Meanwhile she needs to go into learning mode. Read everything about homeschooling that she can get her hands on. Find out about all of the philoso...

Free paper In exchange for Ink cartridges Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 02:17AM We go through a lot of printer paper while homeschooling. We go through quite a bit of ink too. Did you know Office Depot will give you a ream of recyclable paper in exchange for an old ink cartridge? When I cannot refill a cartridge anymore, I put it in a Ziploc bag, which I keep in my purse. The next time I pass by an office depot, I go in for my free paper… That is often all I get, unless they have a good discount in the clearance area.

When answering the post on Yahoo answers requesting 7 disadvantages of homeschooling, I had a had a hard time taking it seriously. I had to ask myself, self, why seven reasons? Why not two good reasons, why not 10 bad reasons? But I pulled myself together and gave it a shot. Here is my list of 7 disadvantages of homeschooling.. Other people treat you as if you have lost your mind Nosy stranges ask your kids why they are not in school, and try to give you lists of schools that would work for you Everyone asks you "what about socialization?" You learn to recognize the look that says "oh, you're one of THOSE people" Your relatives call you every year and ask, "when are you going to put thosse kids back in school" You have to actually spend time WITH your childen (wait, is that a disadvantage?) Finally, and most seriously, if your children do not learn, you can't blame the school system.

Today, Jordan is doing the last time4learning unit for the 4th grade social studies and then she can move onto the 5th in every subject. We have no summer homeschooling schedule, I have a review workbook for her and she can do time4learning as she pleases. She wants to finish 5th grade and 6th grade this year because her brother did it and she hates being 2 years younger and 3 grade levels behind. OH yeah!!! I'm in the Carnival... Carnival of homeschooling, that is! "The 21st Carnival of Homeschooling cordially invites you to a Progressive Dinner Party hosted at Principled Discovery . Dress is casual. Invite a friend and enjoy the food, travel and conversation as we get to know each other a little better." If you've come here to see it, it is two posts below. V V V V