Posts Tagged ‘Homeschooling’
Are You Really Surprised?
March 23rd, 2010 | 
Author: Is anyone really surprised that a nation with compulsory government education would one day require compulsory government healthcare too? – Spunky HomeSchool
This is a question posed on a Facebook Friends status, which was passed around from one homeschooler to another. And it’s so very true. Are you really surprised that this is the way our nation is going?
Posted in News & Issues, Politics, rants | 
Tags: Amp, Based Education, Big Brother, Charter Schools, Facebook Friends, Government Doesn, Government Education, Government Healthcare, Homeschooler, Homeschoolers, Homeschooling, Hslda, Interesting Things, Mom, Parental Choices, Private Christian Schools, Private Schools, School Books, Spunky Homeschool, Takeover | 
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Free Resource for Homeschoolers
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.
Posted in Curriculum, Freebies, Newbies, Resources, Review |
Tags: Advertising, Curriculum, Free Love, Free Resource, Free Stuff, Free Website, Glossary, Homeschooling, Homeschooling Moms, Love Stuff, Time4learning |
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Presidential Address To Our Children
Did you watch it? Did you watch it with your children? I watched it with Steve, but haven’t watched it with my sons yet. I”m planning on it though. I realize there’s been a lot of controversy over this speech to our children, which has made me glad that I’m homeschooling and the choice is totally up to me and not the school district. However, I do think it’s important for our children to see this speech.
Posted in News & Issues |
Tags: Civic Duties, Civic Duty, Constitution, Controversy, Dept Of Education, Difinitive, Doe, High Schoolers, Hmmm, Homeschooling, Honesty, Implication, Jesuit, Jury Duty, Lesson Plan, Middle Schoolers, Moral Issues, Obama, Original Lesson, Parents, Preist, President Bush, President Bush Sr, Presidential Address, Presidential Speech, Pride, Recycling, Saving The Planet, Stay In School, Uproar |
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Staff Development Day
Being a homeschooler means that your children “go” to school whenever you want them to. Often, we have days off when others don’t, and the reverse is often true as well. There’s been plenty of Winter “Vacations” that we’re vacations at all for my boys. That’s one of the nice things about homeschooling, we’re free to do what ever the heck we want, WHEN ever we want!
So today, as I was working in my office (by working I mean sitting at my desk doing pretty much nothing, because it’s a dead day for oversized transportation permits), I noticed that the kids that live behind us were still bouncing on their trampoline at 9am. Then I noticed the boys next door were in our yard playing soccer. What the heck was going on???
So I went to our lovely school district website to see what the heck was going on. Right on their front page they have a little tiny news snippet saying ” Nov. 4th District Wide Staff Development Day”. Of course there’s nothing saying what they heck that means or why it just happens to be on Election Day. So I went surfing around the web to see if there were other school districts conveniently taking today off to vote. Low and behold, they are! I don’t think that they ALL are, but I think a huge majority of schools are taking today off.
The question is, are they taking today off to vote? If they are taking today off just to vote, why are they doing this? I mean, don’t the rest of us have to work during the day and squeeze in voting around our busy schedule? And what about the burden this puts on parents who’s children aren’t in school? How understanding are all those businesses going to be to allow their parent employees the day off to allow the local schools to send the teachers out to vote?
Voting is extremely important, but the polls are open pretty early and stay open pretty late. My specific voting poll is open from 7am – 8pm. So no matter when I decide to go vote, I’ll be able to. I don’t see why teachers can’t do the same thing.
What do you think? Do you think the teachers are taking today off to vote or for actual “Staff Development”?
Posted in News & Issues |
Tags: 9am, Boys Next Door, Busy Schedule, Desk, Election Day, Front Page, Homeschooler, Homeschooling, Local Schools, Nice Things, Playing Soccer, Polls, Puts, School Districts, Squeeze, Staff Development, Trampoline, Voting Poll, What The Heck, Winter Vacations |
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Single, Homeschool & Dating
Three words I thought I’d never see together and three words I never thought would describe me… at least not all at the same time. And yet, 11 years ago that’s where I found myself. My youngest wasn’t two yet and my oldest was barely 4. So maybe in the beginning there wasn’t a lot of actual homeschooling being done, but it certainly was my intention. There I was barely 26, two small boys, and getting a divorce. Dating and homeschooling weren’t really first and foremost on my mind at the time, but it wouldn’t be long. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Uncategorized |
Tags: 11 Years, Dating, Getting A Divorce, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Intention, Lol, Lot, Many Men, Myth, Small Boys, Socialization |
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Our First Blog Award
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
Blogging that hits the mark!
Sassy Mama Bear @ The Cafe at the End of the Universe
Sassy Mama Bear has given Best HomeSchool Place a blogging award. It happens to be our first award as well! So we are extremely happy and excited about this! It really means a lot coming from such a great, and multi-award winning blog!
Now, for passing the bloggy love onto the next 3 deserving websites. Envelope please…………………..
And the Awards go to:
- The Accidental Mommies – For being cute, funny, and informative for moms of all sorts.
- First Tyme Mom – For giving us a great look at what becoming a mom, for the first time, is like, and letting us into her world.
- Heathen Homeschooler – For not just giving us great resources and ideas for homeschooling, but for also giving other Heathen Homeschoolers a place to get together online and communicate!
Please visit each of these great blogs! I’m sure you will enjoy them as much as I have.
Posted in Awards |
Tags: All Sorts, Award Winning, Blog, Blogging, Blogs, End Of The Universe, Envelope, Great Resources, Homeschool, Homeschooler, Homeschooling, Love, Mama Bear, Mom, Mommies, Moms, Sassy Mama |
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Thursday Thirteen – Edition #3
Thirteen Things Homeschoolers Never Have to Say to Their Kids
- Where’s your report card?
- If you don’t do your homework you can’t go out
- Not on a school night
- When’s Parent/Teacher night?
- Why were you in Detention?
Posted in memes |
Tags: Brand Name, Brittney Spears, Clothing Labels, Homeschooling, Homework, Justin Timberlake, Latest Fashions, Lol, Lunch Money, Parent Teacher, Sandwich, Sweets, Teacher Night, Worry |
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Link Project – I consider myself an expert in……
< — Start Copy & Paste the URL’s & anchors Here —>
I consider myself an expert in link Homeschooling
1. link
2. Guy
3. stories
4. money
5. memories
6. recipes
7. Sports
8. Condos
9. Oceanfront
10. Graphics
11. Sexy
12. mobile
13. cats
14. traffic
15. coffee
16. Homeschooling
17. marketing
18. advertising
19. friendships
20. Experiences
21. Poetry
22. Portraits
23. solving
24. news
25. Journal
26. Motivation
27. Parenting
28. WordPress
29. Paganism
30. Crafts
31. Myself
32. Permits
33. Writing
34. poetry
35. Reviews
36. shopping
37. Blogging
38. sabra
39. Jesus
40. widgets
41. Travel
42. Banned
43. Bouchelle
44. Cyber
45. Tennis
46. YOUR NEXT!
< — End Copy & Paste the URL’s & anchors Here —>
For instructions click on the first link!
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Tags: 13 Cats, Advertising, Amp, Anchors, Coffee, Condos, Copy Paste, Crafts, Experiences, Expert, Friendships, Homeschooling, Jesus, link, Link Project, linkback, Lt, Marketing, Marketing Advertising, Memories, Money, Motivation, News 25, Paganism, Parenting, ping, Poetry, Portraits, project, Recipes, Sabra, Sports, Traffic, Url, Widgets |
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Thursday Thirteen 1st edition
Thirteen Reasons To Homeschool
1. Spending Time With Your Family – at a time when there are more and more gadgets to make our life “easier”, these gadgets also take a lot of our time away from other things. The computer, video games, cell phones, Ipods, and the television, all are distractions. With homeschooling you have more time to spend with your children, no matter how many other distractions are around
2. Setting Your Own Schedule – You never have to worry about your children missing any school days to go on vacation. When you’re homeschooling, even vacation time is school time!
3. Parental Influence over Peer Pressure – With over-crowded classrooms being a huge problem throughout the united states, it’s no wonder our children are more influenced by other kids than their own parents. With homeschooling, the parents have the most influence over our kids.
4. Nurturing a Love of Learning – as a parent homeschooling your children, you can see what their interests are, and adapt their lessons accordingly, which inspires them to learn and instills a love of learning. No worries of an intelligent child getting bored in class, or a child having difficulties being left behind.
5. No Pressure to Keep Up – Without having the large classroom of other children surrounding them, your child can learn at his own pace, without fear of being labeled a nerd for liking a subject or stupid for not getting it at the right time.
6. Morality – Whether your religious views are extremely strong and fundamental or non-existant, as a homeschooler you get to decide what morals are acceptable and taught to your children. The pressure to have sex, or take drugs is not there, and you get to decide how much they learn about those “sensitive” topics at what age.
7. Security – As a homeschooler, you don’t have to worry about “school shootings” or guns being brought into school, and that’s without having to install metal detectors and bomb sniffing dogs at the front door.
8. Educational Standards – With the public school system in the US failing our children, and homeschooling becoming more accepted, we have the ability to give our children the best education possible. Now most colleges and universities not only allow homeschooled children to attend, they actually seek them out because of their level of education.
9. Socialization – No where in a traditional school, whether public or private, can a child get a more well rounded and diverse exposure than in the homeschool. When children are homeschooled, they are seldom IN the home the entire day. Usually the parents take them to stores, to their work, museums and many other places, while tradtional schools are still in the 4 walls of a classroom. Homeschooled children can get to know a “real world” variety of people by being out in the real world, learning and interacting on a daily basis.
10. Real Life Applications – When a child is homeschooled, not only do they get to experience more things, but they get to see what they are learning being used in real life applications. They go to the store with their mother and see her using math to decide what is the best buy. They watch their father working in his career, using everything from life sciences to computer sciences.
11. Stagnant Knowledge – In a traditional school, often the information is outdated and it takes tons of red tape to get them changed. In the homeschool, the information you get can be updated by the minute. And when something is wrong in a text book, you can find other sources to get the correct information.
12. Homework – In homeschool, it’s ALL homework! Which means, when you’re done with your lessons, you’re done. Your children don’t have to come home after 6-8 hrs in class, and spend the rest of the night doing more school work. Usually a homeschooled child spends an average of 4 hrs a day total on school work, where as a child in a traditional school spends 6-8 hrs in class and another 2-4 doing homework. Sometimes even more hours on homework!
13. And lastly, the best reason of all – You get to know your child better than anyone else! You get to see him gain knowledge and walk through those amazing steps of growing up. You don’t have to wait until he gets home from school to tell you about it, you get to experience it with him. As his excitement for a new subject grows, or he learns something amazine about himeslf or the world, you’re there with him the entire time!
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Tags: 13, Bomb Dogs, Bomb Sniffing Dogs, Computer Video Games, Distractions, Homeschool, Homeschooler, Homeschooling, Intelligent Child, Ipods, meme, Metal Detectors, Morals, Non Existant, Own Pace, Parental Influence, Peer Pressure, reasons, Religious Views, School Shootings, School Time, Spending Time With Your Family, tag, thirteen, Thirteen Reasons, thursday, thursday thirteen, Time 3, Vacation Time |
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Homeschooling While Living on One Income By Kimberly Treptow
In the majority of homeschool families, one parent stays at home to teach the children. This can make saving money on your children’s curriculum without sacrificing the quality of their education of the uppermost importance. Homeschooling can be an expensive adventure but it doesn’t have to be. If one does their research and is willing to take some time to plan and put together a curriculum it can be very cheap compared to purchasing a “packaged” curriculum. Putting together an eclectic curriculum in this manner can also benefit your child as each child has their own unique learning style. You may find when you purchase a ready made curriculum that the language arts works well with your child and the math does not.
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Posted in Budget |
Tags: Auction Sites, Books, Ebay, Ebay Auction, Eclectic Curriculum, Education Department, Endeavor, Free Internet, Free Lesson Plans, Homeschool Families, Homeschooling, Language Arts, Learning Style, Math, Purchasing, Quality Education, Saving Money, Textbooks, Treptow, Typical Course, Uppermost Importance |
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