The Week in Review: Oct. 8 - Oct. 14

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15 Oct 2006 01:28 PM

While I've taken a few days off this week, exciting things are happening here at the homeschool blog! If you've missed any this week, here is our week in review!

We began our week discussing the reading part of our homeschooling days. This is a new series where we'll discuss teaching tips and tricks that are especially effective. We're also discussing these in our homeschooling forum.

If you're from North Carolina, you're in luck! We focused our review of state laws this week on the State of North Carolina in Homeschooling in North Carolina. If you're not from North Carolina, never fear. . .I will keep plodding my way through the 50 states all the way to Wyoming!

Writing is definitely one of the hardest subjects we teach. Motivation, assessment, and simply the "how to" provide a big challenge for us homeschooling moms. On Monday, we went back to discussing our Homeschooling Days with the Family Journal. You should definitely check this out if you're looking for ways to work on your child's writing skills!

Thanks to the requests of a few of our family members, I wrote: 7 Tips for Beginning to Homeschool Your Child with ASD (autism spectrum disorder). Since there is a large interest in this area, you can expect to see more articles in homeschooling dealing with special needs kids.

Have you been looking for unschooling resources? If you're just beginning to explore homeschooling or have looked into various methods giving this Resource List for Unschoolers a read will be worth your while.

And lastly, I am going to start exploring the process of deschooling. (This is the fancy term for transitioning from regular school to homeschooling). One reason parents and kids have such a hard time going from school to home school is that we've come to believe that traditional education is some how superior. In The Deschooling Series: The Fallacy of Traditional School we began looking at some of these things. Hopefully, we'll be able to remove them as road blocks from the good learning that can happen at home.

So there you have it, the week in review for homeschooling. Keep coming back for the continuing series on state laws, deschooling, homeschool days and soon I will be working on PK-12 checklists for what your kids should know according to compiled national standards.

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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.

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