The Ten Top Questions I Am Asked About Homeschooling
Continuing with week 6 of Many Little Blessings and iHomeschoolNetwork.com “10 in 10” series we are talking about the top 10 questions people ask us. In all honesty, we really don’t get a lot of questions from people when they find out that we homeschool. I don’t know if it is because where we live homeschooling is widespread and pretty common or because folks just aren’t interested. But whatever the reason is we have not … Continue reading
Ten Reasons Why We Homeschool Eclectically
Here we are in week 5 of the Many Little Blessings and iHomeschoolNetwork.com “10 in 10” series and we are explaining why we chose our homeschooling method. When we first started homeschooling, I really wasn’t even aware that there were so many different named methods: Classical, Charlotte Mason, Unschooling, Unit Studies, Lapbooking, etcetera. Those terms just weren’t in my vocabulary. I basically went with my instincts and what I felt would work for us. As … Continue reading
Our Top Favorite Read Alouds
This week, as part of Many Little Blessings and iHomeschoolNetwork.com 10 in 10 series, we are supposed to focus on our top 10 favorite read alouds. This was hard to narrow down. Greatly influenced by my mother, whose doctoral dissertation was based on her studies of parents reading to children, reading out loud to our children has been a lifetime pleasure. I also learned through experience that reading out loud is not just for little … Continue reading
Dollar Store Beach Pail Door Decoration
I like to change the wreaths on my doors with the seasons and came up with this one for our front door. I really stepped outside of my traditional tastes with this super easy and fairly inexpensive door decoration that I think really says, “Summer”. I found just about all my supplies at the Dollar Store (2012 cost break-down included): 1 pail and shovel set ($1) 1 pair of children’s flip flops-smallest size I … Continue reading
125 Summertime Boredom Busters
The official start of summer is a few weeks away, but for us the beginning of June really puts us in a summertime-frame-of-mind. I’ve seen a lot of great summer ‘bucket lists’ but I really did not want to put that kind of pressure on us to try to achieve a bunch of things on a list. Most of the lists I have seen seemed geared more for the younger set, but you know what? … Continue reading
Ten Reasons My Kids Like Being Homeschooled
This week’s theme for the “10 in 10” series from Many Little Blessings and iHomeschoolNetwork.com is ‘10 reasons my kids like being homeschooled’. I asked my kids to each give me 5 reasons why they like to homeschool. They actually had a hard time coming up with different answers because for the most part they don’t know the alternative to homeschooling life except for what they have heard. My 15 year old daughter’s reasons: More attention … Continue reading
