Welcome to the August 31, 2010 edition of carnival of homeschooling.
Nadene presents Maths Mini Office for Middle & Senior Students, saying, “Senior and middle school maths information for your minioffice.”
Katherine presents Ego Enhancement, saying, “How bad is the average kid when strangers see a group of well behaved children, they automatically ask, “Do you homeschool?”"
Nak presents Lives Like Loaded Guns, saying, ” ‘Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.’ -Emily Dickinson”.
Kris presents Top Ten Ways to Handle a Bad Homeschool Day, saying, “I’m getting ready to make a shocking statement. Are you ready? Are you sitting down? Okay, here goes: Every homeschooling day is not a bed of roses.”
Michelle Padrelanan presents Question and Answer Time, saying, “I answered a letter of another mom, who I call Missionary Mom, on another blog post and realized that there is an unasked question there that begs to be asked. This post is the answer with a list of a few things that others say my homeschooled children will miss because they don’t go to regular school.”
NerdMom presents Responsibility and Education for a Dollar, saying, “I needed an easy way to set out lesson plans for them and let them know what they are expected to do and I found it.”
Elena LaVictoire presents Tips for Ohio Homeschoolers, saying, “Ohio Homeschoolers are trying to get their notifications in before the start of the public school year. I wrote about this a little bit here and also here and I’m adding a bit more information.”
Henry presents Looking for advice on scholarships and grants, saying, “We are looking for help on how to find scholarships and grants for our oldest daughter.”
Lynn presents Lapbooks for Autumn, saying, “Check out these fun and educational lapbooks for autumn”.
Education
Robin Phillips presents Nature Study: Trees, Creativity, and Kids, saying, “I have always loved trees. I also love creativity and of course, I love my kids. Combining all three loves is what makes home education so much fun.”
ThinkQuestion presents Creating a homeschool high school student transcript for college and university admissions, saying, “The “Official High School Transcript” is the singular element of the college application that distinguishes the homeschooled student from the traditionally-schooled student applicant.”
Jessica Snajder presents What is Learning?, “I have come to realize that Grace does not consider anything to be learning unless it has a letter grade attached to it. Apparently five years in the public school system has done this to her.”
e-Mom presents Art & Architecture: The Tabernacle of Moses (VIDEO), saying, “Spiritual Object Lessons in the Wilderness–relevant to the Israelites, and modern worshippers like you and me. Three 3-D computer-generated videos allow us to take a privileged walk through the Tabernacle of Moses.”
Carol J. Alexander presents Personalized Journals, saying, “I am so pleased to introduce you to my daughter, M. After creating a beautiful journal for a gift for her girlfriend, she asked me if she could write the directions down as a guest post for this blog.”
Christine presents Reading in My Family of Origin and Our Homeschooling Decision, saying, “Christine of The Thinking Mother writes about readers and non-readers, issues with school and reading and about how that influenced her decision to homeschool.”
Laura presents Lesson Pathways: Free Online Curriculum, saying, “If you’re looking for a free online curriculum for your K-5 child, look no further than Lesson Pathways. The people who set up this site did an excellent job to not only provide quality information, but the site looks great!”
Kim presents Our Summer of Learning Part Two, saying, “In Part One of this series, I talked about all that we experienced and learned on our vacation to the ocean. This post will focus on the camps and activities the children had the opportunity to participate in over the summer.”
Andrea Hermitt presents This is our homeschool shelf, saying, “This is in response to Dewey’s treehouse who discusses: Another year of boxes, bins, notebooks: trying not to duplicate where she shared her homeschool organization boxes, bins and binders.”
Linda Dobson presents Resources, Resources & a New Children’s Book By Rebecca Rupp!, saying, “from Grandma Linda (Dobson) – Maybe if enough people leave comments here, we can talk Becky into offering up a copy of Octavia Boone’s Big Questions About Life, the Universe, and Everything for a giveaway for Parent at the Helm readers! Congratulations, Becky, and good luck with the book!”
Denise presents Challenge Yourself to Blog, saying, “The September 2010 Student Blogging Challenge encourages students to blog by exposing them to a world-wide audience, not just their teacher and classmates.”
Denise presents How to Start an Argument: The Monty Hall Problem, saying, “Imagine you are on a TV game show, and the host lets you choose between three closed doors…”
Pamela Jorrick presents Bricks and Brains, saying, “Last year, when we first learned about an artist named Nathan Sawaya who created life sized masterpieces entirely out of Lego bricks, we were immediately interested.”
Family
Two Kid Schoolhouse presents First Day, Play Day, saying, “The new books are ready; the daily routine/schedule typed up: it must be time to “start school.” I dislike that term intensely“.
Mrs. White presents Making Chores Fair for Children, saying, “‘ve mentioned in a previous post (A Cheerful and Willing Housekeeper) about not expecting too much from our children in regards to housework. As Mothers, it seems like we have plenty of chores and we are often asking for help. Sometimes, we even ask for help all day long for those of us who homeschool!”
Barbara Frank presents Public School Foolishness, saying, “Brief summary of the post: The ridiculous way schools treat bright kids makes a person glad they homeschool their own children.”
Laura Grace Weldon presents If Jane Goodall Were An Alien, saying, “Imagine someone with Jane Goodall’s observational powers coming from outer space to observe us for a few days. Let’s narrow this alien’s study down to something relatively simple. American childhood.”
DeputyHeadmistress presents The Common Room: Teaching Your Children How to Do Their Chores, saying, “When you first want to teach a child a chore, you spend time doing the chore with him. Model it, talk about what you are doing, include him, explain what you do and why. Do this a few times (at least).”
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