The Week In Review: Oct. 21, 2006by Valorie Delp | More from this Blogger 21 Oct 2006 12:46 PM Are you looking for a compiled list of links and ideas as well as measurable objectives and standards that help you to know if you're teaching the right things at the right time? I am starting a series, "What Your _________ Should Know". This week we focused on preschoolers academic skills, every day skills like time of day and positions, as well as motor and social skills. Keep looking for more blogs going all the way through 12th grade! I am also continuing to work my way through the homeschooling laws and statues of every state! This week we focused on North Dakota state laws. In our "Homeschooling Days" series, we are taking the time to discuss different things we do as part of our regular scheduling, in addition to various teaching tips and creative ideas. This week I talked about something I feel passionately that should be included in every home school program: unstructured outside play time. Homeschoolers need this time. If you're not convinced go read the blog! As a response to many requests dealing with the struggles a parent faces when they pull their child out of school, we have been talking about deschooling. Deschooling, at least for these blogs, refers to casting aside our preconceived notions of what a "good education" is and just focus on getting our kids to love learning for its own sake again. Since traditional grading systems can sometimes hinder a child's love of learning we focused on both The Fallacy of Good Grades and in a follow up blog, I talked about creative ways to assess your child without "technically giving a grade in, How Not to Grade Your Child. Thankfully, my mate Megan Bayliss, wasn't too knackered to share a guest blog in homeschooling this week. It was real dinki-di and if you have no idea what I'm talking about, then go look up: Aussie Slanguage: An English Language Lesson from Down Under and its follow up activity: A Slanguage Activity from Down Under. Another highlight was Tristi Pinkston's guest blogs. As so many of us who home school know well this question, Tristi articulately shares with us why she and her family have decided to home school in Mother Knows Best: Why I Homeschool, Part 1 & Part 2. So now if you haven't had a chance to check out the home schooling blog, you have it all in one place: come on over!
Learn more about Valorie Delp  Hello everybody! My name is Valorie and I am one busy lady! When I'm not writing or editing for families, I am busy trying to get my brood of 5 in line. Relevanthomeschooling tags User Comments  Megan Bayliss (3586) 21 Oct 2006 03:10 PMValorie I've got to tell you that your blogs have been amazingly helpful to us. Thank you. I don't always have the time to leave a response but that doesn't mean I'm not reading and printing them out to cross refer to. It was a pleasure and a honor for me to guest blog in home schooling and I hope the Aussie slanguage at least provided a few laughs. Horoo (yet another Aussie salutation - means, "bye", or "see ya").  Valorie Delp (49340) 21 Oct 2006 05:32 PMI'm so glad. I want to try to blog on things that are helpful to people! And I loved the Aussie language thing. Do you all have Highlights magazine? We love it but they also publish some other cool stuff like a Top Secret Agent Adventure. In doing these TSA's they cover geography, reading and thinking skills. What's great is they learn all sorts of things about the place. Anyhow, the point is that we're currently on a hunt in Australia so it fit right in! Thanks so much! Megan Bayliss (3586) 23 Oct 2006 02:22 AMI've just done a blog on the U.S ban of one of Australia's foods: "America Declares War on Black Australian History. World of War Kraft Kills Vegemite." The links within contains some groovy Aussie kids sites and games that may add to your Australian study. I was going to send you a jar of Vegemite for Christmas but I'll rethink that move now! I've not seen Highlights magazine. Valorie Delp (49340) 23 Oct 2006 10:28 AMHere is the link for the main Highlights page: http://www.highlights.com/ Here is the link for what they call their "clubs", which includes the Top Secret Adventures that I was referring too. We've now finished Australia and are on to Mexico but I'm sure Australia will come up again bc my son wants to study the great barrier reef. :-) http://www.highlights.com/jump.jsp?itemType=CATEGORY&itemID=261 Community Tags homeschooling, week in review Discuss this article
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