Comments on: Homeschooling for Beans

By: Vicky

Vicky — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:14:00 +0000

Get set I’m going to share your blog with our homeschool group. We always love checking out what other homeschoolers are doing.

By: Myrnie

Myrnie — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:53:35 +0000

“Ivory Soap”- I’m signing up for paperbackswap.com- do you want me to use you as a “referrer”? Do you get points for that? E-mail if you can, if not I’ll just go ahead and sign up

Myrnie-
madebymyrnie(at)gmail(dot)com

By: Ivory Soap

Ivory Soap — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:01:16 +0000

HAndcrafter—*sigh*

By: Sumiyeh

Sumiyeh — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:37:53 +0000

Thanks for sharing the things that work for you (always on the lookout for a fresh approach!). I home school my 10 y/o son with a group of friends that we put together into a cooperative. We use a ‘Waldorf flavored’ approach that encourages children to create their own texts by entering an illustrated, paraphrased summary of our own lesson presentation. There are 3 of us mommies/teachers and we rotate the subjects and lesson plans among ourselves while we tend to the three levels of classes in the co-op (K/ grades 1-3/ grades 4&5). The k group usually just illustrates with some minor word copying. The 1-3 group, our largest, will illustrate and copy a few simple sentences. The 4-5 group gets an advanced text, enhanced with vocabulary to look up. Sometimes they are required to develop their own text, instead of doing copy work. Each lesson, a mommy will create a blackboard drawing for them to use as the basis of their own illustration. It’s a very efficient method and the artfulness of it is very satisfying for the mommies as well as the kiddies. Although we can’t resist the temptation to purchase books to have to read at home, we don’t purchase curriculum. Hurray for the public library!!! where we get our sources almost all of the time.
We do the co-op 2 days per week and the times that we are in our individual homes, we cover the 3Rs individually. That’s the time when we might use worksheets. BTW, you can subscribe to edHelper.com for about $20/year and get all the worksheets that you could possibly need for every school level, and every subject!
However, I don’t know how you do it Ivory Soap! How can you get all this done, gardening, home schooling, sub-urban home steading, etc. PLUS running a BLOG?! My hat is off to you!

By: Handcrafter

Handcrafter — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:41:44 +0000

Oh, if you have an iPod touch or iPhone, they have a Kindle for those too, would make it a little more portable if you can’t print.

By: Handcrafter

Handcrafter — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:40:16 +0000

Haven’t tried printing it. And my husband says he’s not sharing anyway; but maybe we could still be friends. Sorry.

By: Lawanda

Lawanda — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:31:01 +0000

Have you heard of Daily Lit?

I get my classic book fix through email

http://www.dailylit.com/tags/classics

By: Ivory Soap

Ivory Soap — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:20:40 +0000

I love what your husband says, debra!

Handcrafter! Can I not print off of a kindle? I may have to cancel that engagement party.

By: debra

debra — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:13:41 +0000

Library book sales are another great resource. I purchased many many books for very little money and supported my local library. And libraries will often put on programs for homeschoolers=—for free!
My husband used to say that mothers with children are the world’s largest cashless society. See if other parents will share resources—and swap them.
I have just finished my 17 yr homeschooling adventure. What an amazing journey!

By: Ivory Soap

Ivory Soap — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:00:26 +0000

Handcrafter!!!! Will you marry me? I just downloaded the kindle software. I can’t even breathe, I’m so excited. Classic book nerds UNITE!

And thanks to everyone for their great suggestions. Library book sales are a great place too. And I’m on my way to find out if we have a teacher resource thingy with $2 binding.