Homeschooling Issues/Topics

A little homeschooling advice and hopefully encouragement

Posted on December 19, 2008. Filed under: Homeschooling Helps, Homeschooling Issues/Topics | Tags: , , , |

A little homeschooling advice and hopefully encouragement (and a reminder for myself)
To the New Homeschooler:
Sit back, relax, take a deep breath and believe that you can do this because with Allah’s help, you can.  It will not always be easy or fun, but the rewards are immeasurable; the feeling you get when your child learns [...]

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Grammar in First Grade?

Posted on April 16, 2007. Filed under: Grammar, Homeschooling Issues/Topics, Language Arts |

    Some curricula include the formal teaching of grammar as early as grade 1. Other curricula or schools of thought advocate holding off  teaching grammar formally until the age of ten or so.  I am somewhere in the middle of the road on this issue.  For me, I do not believe in holding off until [...]

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Accepting Only the Best

Posted on April 15, 2007. Filed under: Homeschooling Issues/Topics |

Sometime ago, in one of my egroups, a fellow member had mentioned that her kids kept doing the work over again until it was "perfect."
This is an excerpt  of the post I posted in the group. I thought it might be helpful for others who might be struggling with the same issue…
That was, in [...]

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The “S” Word of Home Education: Socialization

Posted on April 10, 2007. Filed under: Homeschooling Issues/Topics, Socialization |

Tags: socialization, homeschooling socialization, home schooling socialization, socialization and homeschooling, socialization and home schooling
The “S” Word of Home Education:
Socialization

DEFINITION:
so·cial·ize
v. so·cial·ized, so·cial·iz·ing, so·cial·iz·es

To place under government or group ownership or control.

To make fit for companionship with others; make sociable.

To convert or adapt to the needs of society.

Inflected Forms: -ized also British -ised; -iz·ing also British [...]

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