Friday, March 14th, 2008
Mathematics is one of the core subject areas in any school curriculum, be it the regular classroom setting or the home schooling environment. Regardless of the learning situation, incorporating traveling teddy bears into the mathematics curriculum is something that is easy to do, captures the attention of the student, ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Despite a commonly held belief that taking your children out of school and teaching them at home is likely to run you into trouble with the law, homeschooling is in fact completely legal. There are however laws governing homeschooling and you need to familiarize yourself with these before you start.
The ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Who is Jacob Abbott? I asked this question one day as I surveyed the latest public domain offerings at Project Gutenberg and found an interesting text by Mr. Abbott about Peter the Great. A Google search turned up a plethora of links and website answering this question for me.
Jacob Abbott ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
One of the main problems that parents encounter when putting their child to home school is starting it altogether. This is especially true with parents who have no previous experience in handling children or in teaching lessons. It is up to the parents to sift through the positives and the ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Learn About Homeschooling BenefitsBy Mike Selvon
An increasing trend in the education of children is in-home schooling, and as more people hear about homeschoolers and the unique approach to learning they have, many people are curious to learn more about homeschooling to help them determine if it might be an option ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
One of the main problems that parents encounter when putting their child to home school is starting it altogether. This is especially true with parents who have no previous experience in handling children or in teaching lessons. It is up to the parents to sift through the positives and the ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Overcoming your fears of homeschooling
Overcoming your fears of homeschooling is the first step in making one of the most important decisions of your life as well as your child’s life. The opportunity to homeschool your children is not only a blessing but it is a privilege. It is well understood ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
While a very small number of parents do homeschool there children at college level this is not a common practice and it is the aim of most homeschooling parents to prepare there children for entry into college.
There are many reasons for homeschooling a child but one common theme is dissatisfaction ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Perseverance - persistence, endurance, stick-to-itiveness, staying power, dogged, diligence. What a list of great nouns found in Roget's Thesaurus.
I chose to write about Perseverance not only as a goal that I can see I need to work at in my life, but one which is so extremely important for ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Many work at home moms homeschool their children, as do many mothers who work outside the home both full time and part time. If you believe homeschooling is the right thing to do for your family, you can make it happen.
Here’s why. There really is no right or wrong way ...
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