By: Nicleau
Or, do what we do, and don’t send your children back to school! Home learning is a great opportunity and provides a wonderful real-world education. (But thanks for the article anyway:) )
View ArticleBy: Erin Doland
@Nicleau — So, for your home learning, you don’t do any preparation? You don’t develop curriculum or gather supplies or plan your yearly calendar? All my friends who homeschool have been spending the...
View ArticleBy: Marjoryt
I spend about 1 1/2 hours the first week in each of my college classes, getting the students ready for the semester – discussing schedules, books, supplies, when to study, where we’ll have class,...
View ArticleBy: Another Deb
Take advantage of the school and district websites. They publish the dates when grades will be sent (or e-mailed) home, sports schedules, contact information, class descriptions, social and music...
View ArticleBy: anon
Erin, I’m not Nicleau, but as a former homeschool mom, I thought I’d offer my $0.02. =) We avoided the hectic rush of “back to school” by schooling year-round. We still did our 180 days, but we took...
View ArticleBy: Erin Doland
@anon — I can see how that works. Very cool. All of my homeschooling friends do two semesters and simply end the semesters when the curriculum for the semester has been finished. For most of them, this...
View ArticleBy: OogieM
I was homeschooled, we did all the year’s lessons in one really long month or occasionally month and a half and then took off for the rest of the year. I got to study whatever interested me for as long...
View ArticleBy: Nicleau
Erin–it’s taken me some time to get back to this post, but like anon, our schedule is very flexible and not tied to any particular institution, nor is it tied to any particular curriculum. As one piece...
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