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2006 in Review: Homeschooling Blog at a Glance

As a new homeschooling blogger at Families.com, I wanted to know everything that has been discussed to date. In response to my own curiosity, and in an effort to make perusing our articles easier for you, our readers, I have compiled all of the blogs for the year 2006. Deciding to Homeschool Why homeschool Am I qualified for this? Reasons that Homeschooling Works! My Most Important Advice for Homeschoolers. The Cost of Homeschooling Instead of standing up for their own kids, why not stand up for all kids? Disclaimer: I am hardly an expert in education. Did You Know? ‘Empirical … Continue reading →

The Homeschoolers’ Advent Calendar: Gingerbread Structures

In just two hours, we will be on our way to our home schooling co-op for a lesson in physics (compliments of my husband) and the fine art of gingerbread making. Well, technically we’re using graham crackers. . .but we’re using real frosting and we’re using real candy to build a winter wonderland of gingerbread structures. Maybe it’s just me, because we live in a city with tons of bridges, but the study of structure has fascinated me. It actually started to fascinate my highly observant son who noted that most bridges are made out of triangles–which is true. This … Continue reading →

Top 5 Resources: Christmas Foods

As I hear from more and more of you, I am still in the process of setting up a more user friendly “resource” section in our homeschooling blog. Some of you have mentioned that while you like the top 5 format and the themes, you would like an easier way to locate the resources for later reference. Therefore, I am going to start listing themes at the top of the post. When there are enough, we will categorize them alphabetically in the categories. You’ll be able to search there, as well as in the search box on the families.com homepage. … Continue reading →

The Sunday Evening Review–December 17

We have been busy here in the homeschooling blog, and despite the upcoming holidays, we have been writing up a storm. Here’s this week’s Sunday Evening Review–in case you’ve missed something. Last week Andrea started what I hope will be a regular feature: the vocabulary word of the day. This week she shares four new words with us: syncretism, autodidact, extreme and mediocrity. Not sure how to use one of those in a sentence? Then you must check out the blog!! In Homeschoolers Control Their Children’s Environment, Andrea shares with us some things that we as parents can “control” such … Continue reading →