Jun
16
Posted by Mary
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Homeschooling is becoming very popular. As more and more statistics come out about how unprepared high school graduates are for the real world and college.
Many people do not want their children to be unprepared and we are all learning how much doing the same thing over and over for generations is giving us the same results. So now is the best time to start homeschooling. With so many others out there doing it as well, it is much easier than it was 10 years ago to find local homeschooling groups, and field trips for your home schooled children.
The blog post I read about 5 reasons to homeschool included many of the reasons I myself plan to homeschool. The argument is really no longer there to say public or even private schools are worth it. Think of how well prepared the graduates you know are when they get out of school. So here is the post, and even if you don’t plan to homeschool maybe reading this will give you an idea of why others do.
http://blog.flada.com/2007/02/18/reasons_homeschool/
Jan
13
Posted by Mary
Yesterday a friend stopped by and got me all excited about homeschooling again. We were talking about different ways of homeschooling, and then I realized I haven’t posted much about homeschooling on the blog.
We talked about Unschooling- the new way to not teach. There is supposedly no syllabus, and no particular direction in which to teach your kids. You go with their interests, and follow where the interests leads. An example would be for kids who are interested in cats, so you take them to the humane society. From there they want to know more about kittens, where they come from maybe, so you take them to the vet to ask questions. Then at the vets the kid learns you can only keep so many animals, so you go to the city court to see the laws behind having pets.
Another way is through notebooking, which I do not know much about, except you write down everything that pertains to the subject in one notebook. A nice one we discussed was unit teaching, which is done with up to a few kids of different ages, and based on what the kids are suppose to learn you teach subjects like Egypt, the history, the culture, the geography, science of the area, and more.
I really like the idea of going by a specific syllabus for each child, that would involve christianity, morals, principles, math, science, social studies, cooking, and whatever else I can come up with. Not all at once but over time. I am not sure if I will ever come up with such a curriculum, but I am looking.
Until then here are a few different homeschooling references to share:
Magic Learning Systems for ages k-12
Hands on Homeschooling Preschool
Old School House Magazine - very popular website
Dec
28
Posted by Mary
I am in a Yahoo group for preschool homeschooling. I have a two year old son, and a 3 month old. My husband and I are going to try homeschooling out, because we think that it might be best for our kids. There is so much more you can do with their education to help them enjoy it more if you homeschool, is our opinion. So… back to the Yahoo Group. Ok, so today another of the parents posted a link to Barnes and Nobles, they apparently do free online classes on a variety of topics, and homeschooling is one of them. It is more for newbies to the idea, for first years, and others who just want more information. So I wanted to send the link out to any and every one who reads this so they can have a chance to sign up. It starts Sept 5th I believe.
