While public schools across the country are dropping Handwriting it is still very much a part of a homeschoolers curriculum. It has come to my attention that Handwriting can become a costly endeavor for families. The choices are astounding and it seems that a new program pops up every 3-5 years or so. What does a family on a budget do?
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Wow! What a delight to be here with all of you. Thanks so much to Thaleia for inviting me to be a guest blogger on this very exciting site.
And, you know, homeschooling during high school is one of my favorite topics, because the opportunity to homeschool my three teenagers was the highlight of our parenting journey!
But before we go there, may I share with you what research shows about homeschooling our kids all the way through high school? During a convention workshop, Dr. Jay Wile talked of a study done by Lawrence Rudner, in which homeschool, private school, and public school students were compared. The first part of the study showed that homeschool students start out ahead of private school students—and keep that slight lead all the way through high school. Private school students are slightly ahead of public school students. . .until eighth grade. At that point, public school students begin to diverge, losing ground rapidly compared to both homeschool and private school students.
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When you first announce to family and friends that you are homeschooling, I am sure it was a very exciting and scary time. They had loads of questions. You had loads of questions and probably very little answers. With a little time and research I am sure you were able to smooth things over with the well meaning relatives and ease your conscience in realizing homeschool would be right for your family.
Your children are now growing up and it’s time to think about and plan for High School Homeschool! Wow, has time flown by. Maybe you are just now considering homeschool for your Junior High or High school student. What should you do? Where should you start?
Here’s 10 excellent resources to ease your mind and help you tackle the upper level learning for your students:
1. Homeschooled through Highschool: Is it Possible? series: found right here on something2offer each Thursday beginning January 24 and running through April 25! This series will feature guest posts from grads and from experts sprinkled in some awesome giveaways. This series is NOT TO BE MISSED!
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My youngest child loves Big Red Barn which warms my country girl heart! We bought the board book at a garage sale and it did look brand new. Not anymore my friends after reading it non-stop for a few months multiple times a day!
I wanted to share some of the awesome resources I found online to really make Big Red Barn into a Unit Study for your little one.
Here are 10 of my favorite ideas from my Literaure Ideas pinterest board:
1. Big Red Barn Tutorial by (yours truly)- it’s amazing what you can do with a wipes tub and some recycled supplies plus duct tape!
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We are fortunate to be surrounded by towns and cities that ALL have libraries. We can be at one of four different libraries in under 20 minutes! We have library cards for 3 out of 4 but plan to get the 4th libraries card since they offer cake pan’s to check out. Talk about super cool!
This week we went to the BOAT library for their first ever Lego Club. Eldest and Princess were very excited to see what this library had to offer over another library. Lil’ Red liked being about to play with duplos, dinosaurs, jump into bean bag chairs, AND use a touch screen pc!
This library offers online reserves and ILL throughout their county library branches which makes it super convenient for this homeschooling momma. I go online the day or 2 before and reserve my MUST HAVE books. Other neat online features is BookFlix through Scholastic which I can access from home through this libraries website. BookFlix is an online interactive resource for tots and elementary students with digitized books and books set to movies.
