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Here's to the New Year: Why I Homeschool Part 3 | |
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There are enough pressure, stress, and opposing opinions inherent in the homeschooling journey to give even the most stalwart home educator cause to question his or her choice at some point. So, instead of New Year’s Resolutions, this year I’m reviewing why I homeschool. I’m getting my foundation set right at the get-go, so I’m better prepared for handling the challenges that will inevitably arise throughout this upcoming year. Because when the foundation is secure, you can build something beautiful. Read more... |
Promote Map Use by Kids the Subversive Way | |
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Hoping to spare my kids my own geography impairment, I hung a large world map in the kitchen a few years ago. But how to make that map a go-to place? I know the ho-hum status educational products achieve around here. I don’t really believe anyone sits on the toilet studying the expensive shower curtain I bought featuring SAT vocabulary words on it. I know our stack of handy reference place mats haven’t been out of the drawer in years. Yet that map is in use every day. Let me share the secret with you... Read more... |
Here's to the New Year: Why I Homeschool, Part 2 | |
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2012 is on its way, and my determination to make this a great homeschooling year is getting revved up right along with it. It's just so easy to get lost throughout the year, in the continuous bustling flow of everyday life, and to lose focus on why I'm going through all of this effort to teach my children. That's why at the dawning of this new year, I'm starting back at the beginning. At the foundation for why I'm doing all of this. Read more... |
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January 2012 Homeschooling Resource Calendar
January 1 - Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln - 1863
January 1 - New Year's Day
January 2 - Georgia Admission Day - 1788
January 3 - Alaska Admission Day - 1959
January 4 - Louis Braille born - 1809
January 4 - Utah Admission Day - 1896
January 6 - New Mexico Admission Day - 1912
January 7 - First US Presidential Election - 1789
January 9 - Connecticut Admission Day - 1788
January 16 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 23 - National Handwriting Day
January 25 - First Winter Olympics began- 1924 in France
January 26 - Michigan Admission Day - 1837
January 27 - Russians liberate Auschwitz - 1945
January 28 - Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
January 29 - Kansas Admission Day - 1861
January 21 - Inauguration Day
