Homeschoolingthewholetribe

As with a lot of homeschooling mom’s I have a diverse age group now from 2- 15. With this being said this week I thought I was on track to finally getting a grip on my “homeschooling with my toddler” struggles. My Toddler Amaziyah (Ami) is so busy and his attention span is only 2 minutes, well I could be exaggerating a bit, but in the midst of a lesson it sure seems that short---In reality it is more like 5 to 7 minutes long. I have tried everything from a large play yard ---- which I thought would be a winner, it gave Ami room to play, and fenced him out of our school stuff. But as with any well-developed American toddler Ami longed for more, more space and more freedom. Ami is a bright and intuitive child and solved his problem in two ways 1st) He would move the whole play yard and when that didn’t work the 2nd) Plan was to try to stack items and crawl over the play yard all together. Now his intuitive ways did make me laugh, but he spoiled my peace in the class room plan, but his q...

Over the past few years of being in many different homeschool groups and communities I have had the pleasure of meeting many homeschooling families that knew right off the bat that they were going to homeschool their children. In the past two or three years I’ve even met many that were homeschooled themselves, on the same hand I’ve met many that were not homeschooled. Many parents have had bad experiences with a public or private school and on that pulled their children out . My husband and I have our own very long list of why we homeschool, almost always I feel assured and confident about our reasons, and you would think that after doing this for so long that I would be steadfast , right? Wrong… Because I have been doing this for so long I see my accomplishments and my failures, and there are days that those two statements overlap. I still to this day worry that maybe my children will grow up and hate my husband and I because they feel they didn’t have a normal life- as if any of us k...

Homeschooling sounds like a huge word, it can be kind of scary, at first Homeschooling can seem like a really big under taking.   It does become easier, and if you have a plan it can be less of a scary step.  It becomes easier if you make that list before hand,  but if your like me it might not come until much later, I will share my list with you so that you will at least have an example as  you make your own list. 1)Think about your family culture; Understand that a lot of your time will be centered around helping your child to manage his/ her own learning. this is called Project  Based Homeschooling .  Through this type of learning you'll be helping your child become independent learners, learning to take more responsibility and explore their different talents and interest. With the decision to home school you'll see how every choice, every step you make will matter, it does matter.  You'll rethink and realign your deepest values.  I ma...

I just received this from my daughter's online math instructor, John Zimmerman, (TabletClass Math) and have forwarded it to the members of the Common Core Study Committee.  But I thought others might be interested in his take on it. Common Core Math Watch Special Report 1 How much do you know about the new common core curriculum standards?  Well if you don’t know that much you need to get informed ASAP because it is changing everything in education.  So in an effort to help you sort out CC (common core) I’m starting this series of posts on common core and its impact on higher level math mainly Pre-Algebra and above.  This series of articles will be a learning process for both of us as things are changing rapidly and much is yet to be determined about CC.  What is Common Core?  The basic definition of CC is a new set of curriculum standards (driven at the federal level) that is aimed at increasing the depth of knowledge about core concepts...

As a homeschool parent there is a part of me that is thrilled at my children's discoveries and passion for education. We want to give our children all the earned freedom that is needed. But I do understand that freedom is an intangible but essential aspect of life. My husband and I are raising our children to have their own free wills - wills eager to do the will of God. Our prayer is that our children eventually become self-disciplined allowing the light of God to be lit from within thus showing God loving spirit. God doesn't overpower our wills nor does he take away our freedom, God doesn't want just voluntary obedience from us. Obedience without love leads to all manner of addictions. Why? Because a heart contained by rules only, with no fire within, must find something that tastes alive makes you feel alive, and cheap substitutes for life are all around us. He wants our hearts open to his spirit, and from there He promises to breath life into our beings. Yahweh said, ...

As many homeschooling families our summer is still very full of learning.  We school year round. although our schedule is a little looser during the summer.  Over the summer my goals are going to be listed below,  To save some time and to get the result I kind of want (them doing the work).   I make packages that includes math, language arts, reading, and any extra information I want to revisit. Math- Each child will continue to work on their math skills.. And I will try to get Zach through his 8 grade math class. Reading- Still working on teaching Aniyah to read (no real luck yet).  My older boys will be working on their list of classics. Language Arts- We do had outs as a part of our daily package.  We are still playing games still with the site words,  Writing sturcture for the older boys, Right now this is the extent of school for our summer.  We will take days off for bowling, golf, and swimming. Please share what your summer schoo...

A happy marriage is like a beautiful garden. Neither one just happens it takes time work and a lot of effort, it takes paying attention to detail, a tender loving heart and understanding of oneself. In short a couple is required to work at it daily. As people we get comfortable, we can always find something more important to do, something pressing. I’m sure we all can remember when we were dating that giddy feeling we used to get, some people call it butterflies in the stomach. But for me it was never butterflies in the stomach, for me it was this feeling of complete utter happiness to just be around my husband.  I have heard some people I say that it is a mere fantasy to think that you can meet one person that will satisfy your needs as a man or woman for your whole adult life. I disagree,  I believe that each of us has a soulmate created by the universe just for us, I also believe that many of us are either married  to this person at this point and time in our lives,...