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Apr 21, 2010

The Unschooling Handbook

A Great Book For Any Homeschooling Parent

            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

My son is interested in Dinosaurs so I have found some great activities to go along with our book reading. I hope you all enjoy these resources too!

Dinosaur theme worksheets and activity pages

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Mar 9, 2010

Free Printable St Patrick's Day Color Pages

Links to great St Patrick's Day free printable coloring pages, coloring fun!


Leprechaun Coloring Pages

Pot of Gold Coloring Pages

Ireland Coloring Pages

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!


St. Patrick History

St Patrick, St Patrick's Day, Irish Saints
We love to celebrate St Patrick's day usually we make cookies, do crafts, and read about the life of St Patrick.


Saint Patrick was ordained by St. Germanus, the of Auxerre,
whom he had studied under for years.

Later, Patrick was ordained a bishop, and was sent to take the Gospel to Ireland. He arrived in Ireland March 25, 433, at Slane. One legend says that he met a chieftain of one of the tribes, who tried to kill Patrick. Patrick converted Dichu (the chieftain) after he was unable to move his arm until he became friendly to Patrick.

Patrick began preaching the Gospel throughout Ireland, converting many. He and his disciples preached and converted thousands and began building churches all over the country. Kings, their families, and entire kingdoms converted to Christianity when hearing Patrick's message.

Patrick by now had many disciples, among them Beningnus, Auxilius, Iserninus, and Fiaac, (all later canonized as well). Patrick preached and converted all of Ireland for 40 years. He worked many miracles and wrote of his love for in Confessions. After years of living in poverty, traveling and enduring much suffering he died March 17, 461.

He died at Saul, where he had built the first church.

Why a shamrock? Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Trinity,
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.

He feared nothing, not even death, so complete was his trust in God, and of the importance of his mission.

Saint Patrick Pray For Us!



For more on St Patrick's Day:
More Saint Patrick History
St Patrick's Prayer.

St Patrick's Day Shamrock and Links to Color Pages for the Kids



Mar 3, 2010

Educational Worksheets

Worksheets Works Educational Materials Made Right Now To Your Specifications

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

Digital Product Boot Camp


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