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Homeschooling Summer Break

Traci — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:34:49 +0000

We’ve been officially done with homeschool for the year for about two weeks; however, as you can tell by my lack of blog posts – life has been a bit busy.

While our homeschooling year went fabulously well – I’m looking forward to a break for the summer.

We’ve been homeschooling since 1998; and during that time have tried numerous curriculum and homeschool styles of learning to find what works for us. We have found it!! Believe me – when you find what works for your family, you’ll know it and homeschool life goes much smoother.

How was your homeschool year?

Do you school year-round, or take some time off in the summer?

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Homeschool Planning for Fall 2009

Traci — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:10:03 +0000

We finished up our 12th year of homeschooling without much fanfare. All went well, and although while we liked our year of using the Prairie Primer Unit Study, we will not be using that again next year. Mark and I have discussed curriculum choices at length and prayed about this for many months, taking into account many things (daily schedules, other commitments, finances, children’s learning styles, etc..) and while the lure of convenience of the Abeka DVD program would suit us just fine, we have learned that sitting at a computer all day is not the best for our children.

So, we will be using the long trusted Alpha Omega Lifepacs. We used these for many years with Heather and they worked just fine, and we need to use something familiar. For this season in our life, this is a good choice for us.

What curriculum is your homeschooling family using this fall? I’d love to know – post your comment below.

Lifepac 5-Subject Mega Kit, Grade 2

By Alpha Omega Publications

Homeschooling is full of challenges, decisions, and hard work. Get a break with Lifepac’s 5-subject set! Colorful, complete, and featuring the Lifepac method of step-by-step mastery learning with hands-on activities, you’ll get everything you need for your child’s primary subjects. Biblically-based lessons are integrated throughout for a solid education both spiritually and academically; a simple way to teach your students exactly what they need to know!This Grade 2 Lifepac Set includes 10 Lifepac Worktexts and 1 Teacher’s guide for each of the following subjects:

Bible: 7 Major Bible Themes (Creation, God’s love, Old Testament Stories, God’s Promises)

History & Geography: Your Neighbors (Community, Farms & Cities, Japan, Travel)

Language Arts: Grammar, Vocabulary, Reading, Composition (decoding, sentences, letters, punctuation, words)

Math: Basic Math Skills (Add/Subtract, Carrying, Area, Place Value)

Science: God’s Creation (Plants, Animals, Senses, Physical Properties, Neighboorhood)

Win Rosetta Stone Software for Your Homeschool

Traci — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:47:09 +0000

Rosetta Stone is the fastest way to learn a language and has been the #1 foreign language curriculum among homeschoolers for a while — and you can WIN the *all new* version 3 Rosetta Stone Homeschool LATIN program… FOR FREE! This is the first year you can get Latin in the brand new Version III update.

This is a $259 program (and believe me it’s worth every penny!)
This is a computer based curriculum and Rosetta Stone will also include a headset with microphone, and a supplementary “Audio Companion” CD so you can practice lessons in the car, on the go, or where-ever! Students participate in life-like conversations and actually produce language to advance through the program. Rosetta Stone incorporates listening, reading, grammar, vocabulary and writing along with speaking and pronunciation lessons. For parents, the new Parent Administrative Tools are integrated into the program to allow parents to easily enroll up to ten students in any of 12 predetermined lesson plans, monitor student progress, grade completed work (the program grades the work automatically as the students progress- I love that!), and you can view and print reports for transcripts. Homeschooling a lot of kids at your house? This program is designed to enroll and track up to ten students (five users on two computers) and will work for nearly all ages — from beginning readers up to college students.

To win this most excellent Latin program copy these paragraphs and post them in (or as) your next blog post, and/OR link to the contest from your facebook page and/OR email the information to your homeschool support group – Then go to the original page http://Jeneralities.com and leave a comment saying that you’ve posted about, or have linked to, the contest. Please make sure the link works to get back to the original contest page when you post. And good luck!