Archive for the ‘Curriculum’ Category

My youngest son Jack, age 13, has not been happy with school for a while now.  We’ve been using K12′s charter school, mostly for convenience sake.  Until we moved to Las Vegas two years ago, I was working outside the home.  It was too much for me to try to work a 50 hr + work week and create my own curriculum.  So I used the charter school.  At first my oldest was the one who had some trouble with the schoolwork, but in California the K12 school was a little more relaxed on schedules and deadlines.  I thought that the NV equivalent was going to be the same, but I was wrong. Read the rest of this entry »

Last time I wrote about a lesson that I was giving my boys on leadership and reports.  Well it turns out that they both did quite well.  Roger chose some interesting and unique names and the one we chose for him to do was on Joseph Campbell, a philosophy professor who influenced many great people.  Jackson chose mostly presidents, inventors and the like, and we asked him to do his report on Benjamin Franklin.  I was very pleased with both of their reports. Read the rest of this entry »

Time4Learning has created a great new resource for new homeschoolers, Welcome To Homeschooling A Guide for Families.  You can download the entire booklet for free from their website for FREE!  I love free stuff!  This guide is for people thinking about or new to homeschooling.  It is written by Time4Learning and some homeschooling moms that work with Time4Learning.

Here’s some of the things you can find in the booklet:

• Learn Your Reasons for Homeschooling
• Understand Your Child Academically
• Plan Your Year/Day
• Homeschooling Glossary
• And more…

This is a PDF download, and inside there are plenty of links to great websites and resources that are clickable.  This is definitely a good resource to have on hand.  although not as in depth as other books, it’s a good introduction.  Of course you’ll find plenty of advertising for Time4Learning within the booklet, but considering I find them to be a good curriculum, I’m ok with that.

I always think its so funny to read on different forums that there is a huge misperception that homeschoolers are some how “wealthy” because they can “afford” to have one parent stay at home to do the schooling.  LOL!  I’m sure there are some homeschoolers out there that have little financial worries, the more common situation is that we scrimp and save as much as possible, and sacrifice where ever we can so that we CAN homeschool our kids.  “Rich” or “Wealthy” are very seldom synonomous with homeschoolers.  With that in mind, here are some FREE (I love that word) resources for your homeschool!

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I just found this great free resource!  It’s a guide for homeschoolers on how to choose the right penmanship to teach our children and how to go about doing it.  I know how hard it can be to figure out how to teach cursive.  There are so many different types of penmanship styles, it gets a little confusing!  Luckily, this will answer some of those questions and make things a little easier for you.

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