Life Between Loads of Laundry
I’m excited that just like last year, iHomeschool Network is hosting their 10 in 10 series starting now through the next 10 weeks. As a member at iHN, I’ll be participating, and it will also mean some new faces in the link up for Top Ten Tuesday as well. Fun! Don’t worry, non-homeschoolers, only a few of the weeks have topics that are specifically about homeschooling. But, this week happens to be one of them. I’m sharing some things that {Read More}
This is part of a two week series on Many Little Blessings where either I or my family try something that is a new experience and then reflect on it. Check out all of the new experiences. —– I’m changing up the format that I’ve been following for this series to make this one fit into a Top Ten Tuesday as well. While I have been to some larger art museums, such as the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. and The {Read More}
I suspect that we are not the only homeschoolers who have found themselves in this predicament. We’ve found ourselves there not once, but twice, during our five years of homeschooling. One of the times that it happened, I met it with great upset. We were just barely a couple of weeks into homeschooling and then second grader Jack was already missing being at his old school. Then came the fateful day when our neighbor (who worked at the school) told {Read More}
I’m extremely excited this week to have one of my eBooks, Homeschooling by the Numbers, as part of the five eBook homeschooling bundle on Bundle of the Week, which is available for just $7.40. eBooks included in this week’s bundle: Homeschooling by the Numbers by Angie Kauffman So, You Think You Wanna Homeschool? by Tiffany Manley You Can Do It Too! compiled by Lorilee Lipincott Simply Homeschool by Karen DeBeus ABC’s of Eclectic Homeschool by Amber Oliver You can pick {Read More}
Some people begin homeschooling out of a desire to raise their children in religious environment. Some begin homeschooling because of concerns for their child’s safety. Of course, there are about as many reasons as there are homeschoolers. One of our first reasons for considering homeschooling was the belief that it might be the best environment for our son with Asperger’s Syndrome (a form of high functioning Autism). However, it wasn’t until he actually asked to be homeschooled just so he {Read More}
Dads can be such amazing assets to homeschooling. One problem that I have seen, however, is that many Dads just aren’t quite sure how they fit into the effort. I know that, in the past, Eric has been at a loss for how to best help with our homeschooling, even when he wanted to be able to help. I’m sharing four ways that Dads can become more involved in their family’s homeschooling over at Life Your Way.
I love Noah, but sitting with him while he works on math can be painful. I don’t know if it’s the Autism, the ADHD, or just a lack of ever really internalizing all of those basic math facts that a person should, but it takes him a long time to do math. To his credit, he scores well in the end, but it takes a long time. Our most frequent math nemesis for a while now has been making denominators {Read More}
I’m sure that I’m like a lot of other homeschoolers in that I can’t help myself but to worry about what we’re covering and, more importantly, what we’re not covering each year. I don’t have a school board or state board of education telling me what I should and shouldn’t do in my lesson plans. Instead, I’m piecing together an education the best that I can, and there’s a lot of pressure that comes with that. Here’s the thing that {Read More}
In many talks with other homeschoolers, I have found that a lot of us have some of the same feelings about homeschooling during the dead winter – it kind of stinks. I don’t know if it’s the extra time indoors, the fact that we’re usually right at that midpoint of the school year, colds and flus tend to be spreading rapidly, or something else, but this is a time of year when a lot of people start to question whether {Read More}
This seems like the hallmark of being unprepared for Top Ten Tuesday this week. Like it just crept up on me and I said, “Um…let’s see…yeah! I’ll just tell them ten things I did today. That’s pure blogging gold.” So, it wasn’t really so much like that. It was more like this, “What in the world am I going to write about tonight? Man – I can’t get this song out of my head. Hey – I should write about {Read More}
