DadLabs demonstrates a great solution for displaying your kid’s artwork in your home. Using curtain rods from Ikea and some cool hanging clamps, you can create a rotating gallery to feature your kiddo’s brilliant art.
VIDEO: How To Neutralize Mean Girls
I think this video has really good and "doable" advise for girls who encounter those "mean girls." Even homeschoolers run into them...video is well-done.
VIDEO: How To Decorate Your Locker
I know we don't normally HAVE lockers if we're homeschooling, but I liked the decorating ideas of this video so much that I thought maybe homeschoolers might wanna see it all the same. I have a couple teenagers in public high school now, so I know they'd be interested in this one. Enjoy.
Time management for homeschool families
By Jeanne Noorman / Grand Rapids Homeschooling Examiner (CLICK to read more)"If the quote “For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned, ” is true, than homeschoolers would be well advised to spend time organizing their time.
With academics, enrichment classes such as music and PE, and extra-curricular activities to coordinate for each student in the home along with daily and weekly household tasks (cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping), doctor’s appointments, church commitments and more, time management skills and/or a time management system are essential in achieving a balance in your homeschool. Stephen R. Covey, best-selling author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, comments that “the best thinking in the area of time management can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities.”
Priorities in a homeschool will vary according to the ages of the students and the dynamics of the family. A working mother will have to schedule school around her paying job; while a stay-at-home mom can be more flexible with her schedule. Other aspects to be taken into consideration when setting priorities in the homeschool household are learning styles, homeschooling methods and curriculum choices. Active, younger children and those with shorter attention spans will need regular breaks while doing their school work. These short breaks can be utilized by mom to do quick household chores such as changing a load of laundry, unloading the dishwasher or returning a phone call. Older students should be able to work independently for longer stretches of time.
CLICK on the full article link above for a few time management tips offered by experienced homeschoolers."
Homeschoolers hit the gridiron for first time in New Orleans
By Mike Hoss / Eyewitness News wwltv.com (CLICK to read more)"John Burke is a 13-year-old eighth grader who has been homeschooled his entire life. And he loves football, but as a homeschooler, there wasn't a team.
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So his dad made him an offer.
'He said that he would put me into school so I could play high school football,” John Burke said. “I felt it was a strange idea.”
That's not a problem anymore. Now there is the home school Saints, New Orleans' first tackle football team made up entirely of homeschool kids. Thursday was just their second time in action.
“Yeah it’s exciting, I love football in general and the adrenaline rush of being able to go onto the football field after never being able to play,” said player Sam Mauras. “Its just exhilarating to go out and represent New Orleans.”"
