The Pros and Cons of Having a Homeschool Mentor

If you mentor homeschoolers, so you go to far in instructing them, teaching them to do as you do?  Are those you mentor too reliant on you?  As a new homeschooler, do you follow your mentor too closely, too blindly?  Read:  The Pros and Cons of Having a Homeschool Mentor  "As wonderful and as useful as homeschool mentors are, there are cons as well as pros in having a homeschool mentor."

Published 9/3/2010 

 

 

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Homeschooling for only one year.

I run into alot of people who have decided to homeschool for just one year.  I tend to discourage this because it signifies a lack of commitment.  Still, there are times that it can still be a great idea.

Following is an article I recently wrote on this subject.

 

Homeschooling Questions and Answers: Homeschooling for One Year

Some people find they need a break from the regular grind and decide to homeschool for one year for any number of reasons. Hopefully they will find this advice to be helpful.

Published 9/3/2010 

 

 

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Homeschool: Why Would You Do That?

 Not all of the homeschooling questions I receive are from people looking to homeschool. Sometimes they come from people who are against it, or want to stir the pot. Here is one such question.

Question: Why would you want to homeschool your children?

Answer: Why wouldn't I want to homeschool my children? Seriously! If there is something crazy or

Final Curriculum Tweak!

OK, I think I've finally gotten it right!
 

One of the reasons we start homeschooling in August is so that by September 1, we have made all of our adjustments and are on track to complete our curriculum by late spring.

So far, I have adjusted the kids literature courses, Adjusted my son's Spanish, and this morning, I adjusted the Biology.

The literature courses (Skills or Literary Analysis and American Literature: Encouraging Thoughtful...

It's about following direction people (book giveaway winner)

Stat's tell me that dozens of people read my blog about the book giveaway.  Investigation told me that several people entered. But one... only one person followed instructions of the giveaway, and so the book goes to Mrs. C.

Mrs. C, please email me your information at ahermitt (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Homeschooling and Black History

 The other day, I wrote about my anxiety about teaching the hard parts of American History, most specifically black history.  The good news, is that once I write these things down and get them out of my heart, I am pretty much over it.

Now I get to enjoy the good parts about it.  Yesterday we spent an hour discussing westward expansion and

Tying it all together

I love the fact that we can make the students curriculum cohesive by making sure that different subjects follow the same time line.  For example, Right we are studying US History 2, so I was able to assign a book for literature that is from the same time period.  It was really cool today to be discussing westward migration and find Mark Twain's name listed as a reason people moved west as he'd romanticized the west. It only makes sense to be reading Huckleberry Finn right now.

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