Home Schooling

 

Homeschooling has been a learning journey for me! Since starting at the beginning of 2004 I have read so much.  I hope to share a snippet of what I have read and help you to understand why more and more people are taking the plunge into helping their children to grow into the best people they can be.

Department of Education and Training
Government of Western Australia
Home Education

A website designed to help parents to understand how home
education operates in Western Australia.

Here are some Articles which have helped to inspire, encourage and teach me.

 

Articles

To feed your soul, encourage your steps and help you on your homeschooling journey.

Each homeschooling family is unique and will have to find the schedule that best suits their family.  Here are some tips to help you in setting up a schedule for your school day.

Children and quiet time! What to do? Find out in Quiet Time Quandary by Paula Moldenhauer.

Reading can be a lifelong enjoyment.  Here are some ideas to help instill the love of reading in your children.

As your children get older, you might be faced with teaching a subject that you are weak in or never learned.  Here are some ideas to help you solve this dilemma.

 

What do I teach? By Beverly Hernandez

 

Socialisation- How to deal with it.

There are many Homeschooling Methods.  Here is an overview of each.

The guilt of the homeschool mum by Paula Moldenhauer

Am I REALLY supposed to be Homeschooling? Find out for sure.

Are You Encouraging Your Child's Dreams? "Yuck!" I screamed as I pulled a handful of waterlogged caterpillars from the washing machine.

Keeper of a Mother's Dreams by Paula Moldenhauer. My belly swollen with child number 3, I sat amidst dirty laundry piles and wondered what happened to my dreams. While being a stay-at-home mom had always been on the list of plans for my life, I'd thought I could do it all. As a college student, dreaming of my future, I'd worked it out. I'd teach elementary school for a few years (which I did), get married and have children (check), and then, while staying at home with my kids, I'd craft a great American novel during naptime.

If you were to look down stream in your life, what would you discover? What you're doing right now is being carried down stream into the lives of your children, your spouse, your friends, and even your community. It's possible to have the outflow of your life be streams of living water. Down Stream by Beverly S Krueger

Potatoes the natural way shows how to take advantage of those learning opportunities that crop up, and no amount of planning can compare to them.

Bread & Butter By Pam Maxey

Education vs Regurgitation By Jessica Hulcy

If homeschooling parents and public school teachers want to break out of the product-oriented mold, unleashing children's creativity and thinking, what can they do differently?

Finishing what we started by Kim Lundberg

Grandma taught 72 children...at once

Has Homeschooling Ruined My Son's Life?
Timothy Palla

Helping the Newbie

by Tammy M Cardwell

Homeschooling an ADHD child can be a real challenge.

How Not to Faint in Well Doing


By Georgene Girouard

How To Choose a Homeschooling Method

Christine Ralston

Homeschool Program and Homeschool Programs
By
Christian N

Homeschool programs are more prevalent then they once were. A lot of families are opting to have their children homeschooled for a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons might consist of the desire to keep them away from public school education.

Learning at Home - Modified Child-Directed Learning

The brainstorm of Merri Cue, a homeschooling mom of 5.

Reevaluating Your Home Schooling Strategy
By Jennifer Zeitz

One of the key points to consider is that home educators have grand opportunities at their fingertips and one is the gift of TIME. Benjamin Franklin once said, "Dost thou love time? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." Why just go through the motions of getting an education, sort of "filling in the blanks", when you can develop a true love for learning and for great books? 

Jennifer Steward from unitstudies.com explains what all the fuss is about.

For laughs What no school today?

 

ARTS

(dance, drama, crafts, art, english literature,

music, painting, drawing, sculpture)

The Curriculum Framework in (WA) is the huge document that many would like to use as a doorstop!  It is actually useful.  Take the time to explore in here for ideas of what to teach and how.

English

(alphabet, phonics, reading & comprehension,

Dolch words, spelling tests, punctuation & grammar)

LOTE (Languages Other Than English)

(culture, language, festivals and geography of other places)

 

Maths

 

Online Schoolwork/Educational Games

(mostly for younger children K-3)

 

Olivia's Page

[Olivia and I created this as a little extra curricular activity.]

 

Resources

(for the educator)

 

Science

(animals, space, weather, human body, food and nutrition)

 

Society and Environment

(local, national, international)

 

Sports and Physical Education

(basics of sports: basketball, Aussie Rules Football, Soccer,

Rugby, Athletics, Bowls, Netball. Some basic sport lessons)

 

Technology and Enterprise

(communications, media, business enterprise, transport)

 

Unit studies