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Apr 21, 2010
The Unschooling Handbook
I have just started reading the book The Unschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith. I want to learn about the unschooling philosophy and methods. I feel it can really help me to understand how I can be the best teacher mom I can be and also allow the world and children to be the teacher.
Basically unschooling is a way to allow the child who is an individual the opportunity to learn what they love when they feel like learning it. Typically unschooling requires no special curriculum, testing and schedules. You simply live your life spend time with your children learn together, play together and just enjoying your life and family the education is a bonus.
The fact is you learn the best when you are into the subject you are learning and you can spend as much of your free time doing it as you like. A 10 year old unschooled child may love to learn about model air planes and he may love it so much that he spends many hours a day on the subject. He will build model air planes, read books about how they fly or how to build them from scratch. This will eventually lead to using math to measure wing spans, calculate speeds, etc..
A 13 year old unschooled girl may love baking and cooking so much that she reads about it, watches television programming about it, she may even cook and bake for the whole family most day of the week. This would also lead to math skills and much more who knows the child will lead their own mind. Education is not a problem because the child learns about the real world and all skills necessary to be a productive adult and then some!
I do like this concept and feel it is a key factor missing in education today, I would like to explore these ideas more and see how they can fit into my families home school experience.
The Unschooling Handbook
Mar 19, 2010
Dinosaur Theme Activity Pages
Dinosaur theme worksheets and activity pages
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Mar 9, 2010
Free Printable St Patrick's Day Color Pages
Leprechaun Coloring Pages
Pot of Gold Coloring Pages
Ireland Coloring Pages
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
St. Patrick History
We love to celebrate St Patrick's day usually we make cookies, do crafts, and read about the life of St Patrick.
whom he had studied under for years.
and has been associated with him and the Irish since that time.
In His Footsteps: Patrick was a humble, pious, gentle man, whose love and total devotion to and trust in God should be a shining example to each of us.
St Patrick's Day Shamrock and Links to Color Pages for the Kids
Mar 3, 2010
Educational Worksheets
I found this great site for educational work sheets, this is a new site were you can find educational worksheets of all kinds and you can even customise them to your child's needs and print them out all for FREE.
Great for homeschooling curriculum or just to supplement your children's learning at home, get worksheets for math, reading, vocabulary, English, geography, even brain puzzles and much more..
I will definitely be using this site more and I know you will like it too!
Worksheetworks.com
To Your Success!
Mar 2, 2010
Home School Business
Family Entrepreneurship And Home School Business
Is anyone interested in getting their teens and family involved with owning and selling their own product online? WAIT PLEASE JUST READ THE REST!
I am not trying to sell you a business opportunity heck no we don't like those, and I would never ask you to join one!
What I am talking about is the real world of business and entrepreneurship, and learning some great skills.
We have a course that my husband created to teach about how to use hosting accounts and set up private label rights products or master resale rights products, like software and information products. We also have affiliate programs that pay 75% commissions which is free to do, all someone needs to do is learn about marketing and advertising.
Being a entrepreneurial homeschooling family our self and in business for many years we understand the value of real world business skills, and getting our kids started early is key to their future. In our home we talk about business and how to make money all the time and our kids are still young but we want to instill an entrepreneurial spirit in them so they can have more choices in their life to choose what ever it is they want to do. They will not have to have a job and worry about loosing it they can create income in any situation and any economy and do it ethically.
If this is something you and your homeschooling family is interested in and would like to learn I will let you in the course for free just give us a testimonial for our site that will help us out for the launch..
It will be a great learning experience for the whole family and you could even make some money later as you learn more..
A win win situation!
Let me know if I could help, we love to help families and the Internet is growing faster than our kids so we need to keep them informed of were the world of business and entrepreneurship is moving!
Are you ready for your home school business education?
Joanne Utke