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| ID: | 104 |
| Title: | Why Homeschool? |
| URL: | http://whyhomeschool.blogspot.com/ |
| Category: | Education & Training: Home Schooling |
| Description: | Looking at reasons why educating your children at home can be better than sending them to a traditional school. |
| This week's Carnival of Homeschooling is up - Thu, 17 May 2012 13:44:00 +0000 |
| Katherine is hosting this week'sCarnival of HomeschoolingatNo Fighting, No Biting! She starts the carnival with: ---------- This week is my 3rd time hosting the carnival of homeschooling and it also happens to be the 333rd carnival, started over 6 years ago. If I think about what I was doing on that very first day the Cate family published this weekly collaborative resource, it was, of course, homeschooling. My two oldest children were just learning how to read and write the most simple of book reports and I was also coping with a toddler and expecting baby #4. Today we have our oldest child in Catholic school, are homeschooling four of the others and still have a toddler underfoot. But it won't always be like this, in another 6 years I will have graduated two children and the youngest will be finishing 3rd grade. But we must focus on what today asks of us and so... ----------   |
| Experience - Thu, 17 May 2012 13:12:00 +0000 |
| From Dan Galvin'sThought For The Daymailing list: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.  |
| Homeschooling will change for us this fall - Tue, 15 May 2012 00:43:00 +0000 |
| Our oldest daughter will be graduating from homeschooling in the next couple weeks. She has been taking classes at the local junior colleges and will start full time this fall. She is excited to start. And I think she is well prepared. She has been doing just fine in the classes she's taken so far. It will be a bit weird for me. Ever since she "started" kindergarten we have been homeschooling her. The current plan is she'll live at home for the next year or two. She isn't gone yet, but she is taking her first steps to moving on with her life. I'm already missing her. But the bigger change this fall is we'll start homeschooling our son. Our long time readers know thatBaby Bopjoined our home over four years ago as a foster care placement. It was supposed to be short term. For over a year it was supposed to be short term. Then two years ago we were able to adopt him. Now this fall we'll be officially homeschooling him. It is a bit weird to be starting over, after all this time. He seems ready. Recently he has started asking for his school work. He is excited to start. He likes to write his name. I'm looking forward to the next chapter in our homeschooling adventure.  |