Marriage & parenting
Everyday is a School Day!
As summer arrives I have a difficult time not getting up and doing school work every day. We enjoy our time together learning and I really like the quiet reading time every morning. Here in NC it is really hot in the summer so staying inside during the hottest part of the day is a no brainer. We do have neighbors over to play and have lunch, but we still do some school work.
My daughters love to help make the grocery list. We like to plan exciting trips as a family, which requires a lot of reading. I receive a lot of help planning our curriculum and schedule for the next school year. We get our folders for each week labeled and filled by mid-July. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is always a team effort. I never have to pair the socks anymore! We like to grow our own herbs and vegetables, and we have great discussions!
So why is it so difficult to say, ''We don't do school in the summer?'' I always tell people that ask me if we are out for the summer that, ''everyday is a school day,'' there is always a place for education everyday of your life, young or old. So when you fill out the attendance record everyday through the school year please remember that educating our children never stops! They also do their part by educating us. | | homeschoolkelly |
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Strategies
Teaching your students strategies for learning is comparable to the proverb that says teach a starving man to fish rather than giving him a fish and he will eat for all his life. As teaching him to fish feeds him for life, strategies help your students become lifelong learners.
We all need and use stategies to learn what we know. Some visualize, some use mnemonics, some memorize, some use silly sentences, etc. Some of us do these things naturally and some of us will have to be taught. We need to teach our students strategies early in their learning and encourage them in their use. Sometimes, it only requires asking them how they learned something and helping them further develop their learning strategy and applying that to other areas of learning. Think about it! | | caw |
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Encouragement
Sometimes when you feel like you are the worst homeschool teacher ever, well then, that is when your student will blurt out something brilliant for no apparent reason. It could be on a car trip, at the store or on his facebook page. There it is for all the world to see or hear and you can know that you did something right. Be proud of your child and yourself. | | cbakerazle |
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Reminder to Self (Posted Above My Desk)
Mistakes are powerful teaching tools, not at all a measurement of failure!
God doesn't expect you to get it right the first time. He wants you to enjoy the process-wrong turns and all.
Where there is no vision...the people perish. Prov 29:18
To teach a faith that is rooted and mature, not one that will
quickly shrivel in the face of opposition. CAPITALIZE on the opportunity to study a subject when child is motivated to learn about it. | | home4schooldaze |
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Elementary Report Card
My 2nd and 4th grader wanted report cards at the end of our first year of homeschooling. Since I did not subscribe to a record keeping system, I made my own template with Microsoft Word.
This is not an official report card for a highschooler, but a tool to encourage those in the early elementary years. This is a 3 column template. Column 1 lists the subjects, column 2 shows the grade for Semester I and the third column I use to grade Semester II. ''Semester I'' is all the work from September through Christmas break. ''Semester II'' is everything from after Christmas break to the end of the school year. On the bottom of the page, I list the grading system, a few words of encouragement and a short bible verse. Hope this helps! | | lbjsej |
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Homeschool Conference Season
Well, 'tis the season to go to a homeschool conference!
I was looking forward to my state conference, but won't be able to go. There were a few workshops listed that would be very helpful, so I emailed the conference organizers and asked if they will be recording the sessions to sell later. They will! Even though I can't go to the conference, I can still order recordings of the sessions I was hoping to hear.
If you can't make it to your area conference, check to see if you'll be able to get a recording later. | | comom |
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