The 204th Carnival of Homeschooling is hosted this week at Norfolk Homeschooling Examiner by Sherene Silverberg Welcome to the latest edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling. Read more… Tweet This Post
The Carnival is hosted this week by Miss Jocelyn at A Pondering Heart. She has the posts divided into categories like the Homeschool Blog Awards. It is buzzing all over the blogworld… the annual homeschool blog awards are going on right now At The Post. You’ve seen me mention it a few times because there [...]
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Erina, Cairan and Cait are helping their mother bake bread in the family’s kitchen in Dubai. The children have ground the wheat and measured the ingredients, and are now kneading dough while singing a nursery rhyme in unison.When the task is done, four-year-old Cait goes to her play kitchen to make bread for her dolls. [...]
The Carnival is hosted this week by Janice Campbell divided into compelling chapters – In Honor of National Novel Writing Month. Welcome to this hundred-and-umpteenth Carnival of Homeschooling! Because November is National Novel Writing Month (also known as NaNoWriMo or nano), and I’m over 10,000 words into the writing process (and can’t think of anything [...]
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The Homeschool blog awards are on again this year. Go and vote for your favorites in many categories and find some new favorites. Homeschoolbuzz.com is nominated again for Best Current Events, Opinions or Politics Blog. We’ve been nominated before but have never come close to winning. The rules state: “You may only vote ONCE per [...]
Via guardian.co.uk Today, I received a copy of a letter that my local MP sent to the education secretary, Ed Balls. This letter was prompted by my concerns about the Badman report, a review into home-education which was submitted in June and immediately accepted by Balls. The government may implement these recommendations by including them [...]
From The News Tribune – Seattle-Tacoma: When Anne Marie Semke was a school-aged child, she said she thrived in the public school system. She loved it enough that she decided to become a teacher and taught at both public and private high schools in Vancouver, B.C. As an adult, Semke still has fond memories of [...]
The 201st Carnival of Homeschooling is hosted this week by The Informed Parent with a “Saving Time” theme. “What children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make [...]
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People always ask me, “So, do you like home schooling?” And I usually say something like, “Um … well, um … I mean, I like it, but I just have trouble with the part where you have to learn stuff. But once you get past that … well, um, it’s good.” The better question to [...]
In honor of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.org)—an international event where aspiring novelists are encouraged to write an entire novel in 30 days—there is a contest meant to encourage the aspiring YA author to get started on that novel by offering an incentive for completing the first 250 words. All you have to do is [...]
The date November 1: In 1512, Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were shown to the public for the first time. In 1952 the United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb in a test in the Marshall Islands. In 2002 I registered the domain homeschoolbuzz.com. Coincidence? After 7 years and 3,432 blog [...]
Kathy Ceceri has a piece on Wired.com about a guide she is organizing on what could be called unplanned homeschooling. I’m sure more than one parent has found themselves in the situation of homeschooling after an unexpected event. Some might even remain homeschoolers. After Hurricane Katrina kept thousands of kids out of school for weeks [...]
A reader writes to say that his five year old came home from public school kindergarten with a flyer alerting parents that the kids are about to have a whole week of “Just Say No to Drugs” education. It shocked him that kids as young as this are being subjected to this sort of thing, [...]
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Consent Of The Governed is the lucky one to host the 200th edition of the carnival of homeschooling. Yes, this is the 200th edition of the COH!(Today, October 27th, also happens to be my birthday!)Thanks for responding to the COH invites.Come on in and settle down… we have some great reading in store for you! [...]
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From KSFY.com. Sioux Falls, SD The latest numbers from 2007 show 1.5 million kids in the United States are home-schooled, an increase of half-a-million kids in just 4 years according to the U.S. Department of Education. We now meet one South Dakota mom who is teaching her five kids at home and find out why [...]
Some evangelical parents need monitoring by the state because they may ‘intimidate’ their children with ideas about God, sin and hell, a BBC radio host has said.The Government’s Schools Minister replied by saying this is part of the reason for conducting a review of the rules on home education.The comments were made on BBC Radio [...]
Hosted this week by No Fighting, No Biting. One of the great benefits of educating our own children is the ability to be free of the standard school calendar. Our family takes advantage of this by spending 16 weeks each summer in Maine. I want to share the beauties of our adopted state with some [...]
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The global warming excuse is being used to justify all kinds of leftist goals like wealth redistribution, one-world government and now population control. What are we saving the earth for, alien archaeologists? Washington (CNSNews.com) – Andrew Revkin, who reports on environmental issues for The New York Times, floated an idea last week for combating global [...]
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The carnival is hosted by NerdFamily this week. Yes, I’m a day late in posting this, but better late than never. Hi everyone! Welcome to the NerdFamily House! We are having our first rain of the season out here so I hope you didn’t get to wet. Come on in, let me take your jackets [...]
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Yesterday I reviewed Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines. The book explores what society might be like if there were modern day gladiators. The whole idea of “fighting to the death” is appalling to me, yet there was a day and a time where this was an accepted sport. I’m glad it’s now part [...]
HSLDA and other sources have reported that Chris Klicka has passed away after his long battle with illness. He leaves behind His wife Tracy and seven children. Chris was a tireless advocate of homeschooling as a homeschooling dad, author and attorney for HSLDA. “Chris was both a people person and a goal person. He cared [...]
Recommended reading level: ages 16 and upReviewed by: Kathy Davis Lyn is a gladiator daughter, coming from a line of seven gladiator fathers. Yes, after her biological father died, Lyn’s mother married six consecutive gladiators, all who died a gladiator’s death. Now it looks like Lyn might have to marry the man who killed her [...]
The first Duggar grandchild arrived Thursday night with her proud grandmother, Michelle Duggar, helping daughter-in-law Anna Duggar with the birth. Mackynzie Renee Duggar checked in at an even 8 pounds and 19½ inches. Exclusive video of the birth was shown on TODAY Friday, and Mackynzie, her parents and the entire Duggar clan will be on [...]
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From Honesdale, PA – Wayne Independent Six-and-a-half-year-old Jack Cavanaugh says it’s “cool” having his mom as his teacher.Joe and MaryAnn Cavanaugh of Honesdale had their hearts set on sending their son to St. Vincent’s School. But when the school closed its doors last spring, the family came up with a new plan: Catholic home schooling. [...]
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Brown, the executive director of the Upstate Homeschool Co-op, said a number of new students this year previously attended religious private schools, including Joshua and Deborah Rogers’ 5-year-old son, Austin. Deborah Rogers said finances were a contributing factor in choosing to homeschool her son, who was enrolled in the early education program at a Greenville [...]
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Richard A. Boyd, former Mississippi superintendent of education claims homeschooling won’t work in Mississippi. He cites demographics apparently from the recent NHERI Study. Boyd, writing to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, looked at the research promoted by the homeschooling movement itself. It shows, according to Boyd, that almost all homeschooled children are in married-couple families (98 percent); [...]
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Four children of a family that fled Germany to avoid further fines for homeschooling have been snatched from their home in France by police and accused of “being alone,” according to a report today on the ongoing war against home education across the continent.The word comes from the Home School Legal Defense Association, which has [...]
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The Carnival of Homeschooling #197 is hosted this week at Walking Therein. She shares a lot of insight into how they teach their own. Jacque is also hosting the Homesteading Carnival this week. Carnival of Homeschooling How Did October Get Here So Quickly? All of a sudden school officially started, the leaves started turning orange [...]
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First, State control of parenting and now baby sitting too. Another example of someone being unhappy anything that is happening without oversight. IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her [...]
I don’t even know what to say about this rule-making gone awry. The biking debate started last spring, when school district officials told Kaddo Marino that Adam was violating school rules by biking to class. Walking to the school also is not permitted. Kaddo Marino challenged the policy and asked the school board to change [...]
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I get emails all the time asking me to mention things on this site. Sometimes, they’re worth telling you about. A few came along recently. Free Printables A website filled with Free Printables: Calendars, Cards, Worksheets, Games, Puzzles, etc. Hey, it’s free. Check it out. Nick Hotel I’ve never been to a Nickelodeon Hotel but [...]
I just heard about this site AsAMom.org on the Glenn Beck radio program. It’s seems like it might be a good place for homeschool moms who share similar beliefs. (I know that’s not going to be all homeschool moms but…) On Friday September 25, 2009 Glenn Beck had a special entitled “The Mother’s Challenge: A [...]
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The Carnival of Homeschooling #196 is hosted this week at Heart of the Matter Online with a very no-nonsense approach.Read more… Tweet This Post
This is the third time we posted news on homeschooler Sarah Schwab. Earlier stories included a congressional medal and her perfect SAT score. The Orcutt teenager’s latest achievement is Advanced Placement Scholar with Distinction honor. High school students earn the award by scoring an average of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken, and [...]
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Longer days, shorter summer vacations, weekend hours… Less family time? less influence from parents, more indoctrination? “Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas,” the president said earlier this year. “Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a [...]
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via elpasotimes.com EL PASO — Shanaya Fastje writes books while most girls her own age play with dolls. At 10, Shanaya has written and illustrated not one, but two children’s storybooks, “Mystery School,” and “Mystery School: Monday Sleepover Disaster,” both inspired by her own experiences as a home-schooled Northeast student. To top things off, she [...]
A story from Izzy Lyman of JBS.org The students were asked ten basic questions ranging from “What is the supreme law of the land?” to “What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?” These questions, about history and government, were selected from the national citizenship test, which is administered to immigrants through the Department [...]
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Hosted this week by Apollos Academy. When I or my kids get really interested in a subject, we easily find ourselves taking rabbit trails and seeing where they lead. This is how this carnival developed. I was looking for a few pictures and links about the autumnal equinox, taking place today – September 22nd – [...]
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I’ve been so tied up this week I forgot to post about the carnival! Well, a few days late, but here it is: Hosted this week by Dewey’s Treehouse. My apologies to Dewey and the treehouse gang. Welcome to the 194th Carnival of Homeschooling. Due to the number of critter-related posts we received this week, [...]
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From R&D Mag. Once again it bothers some that something is happening without government surveillance. But kids fall between the cracks in government schools too. Home-school advocates say the lack of reporting and regulation is the way it should be because it leaves parents free to make choices for the child. But others say it [...]
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