Many people assume that a Homeschooler’s daily and yearly schedule must be the same as the local school’s. If the local public school’s day starts at 9am and ends at 2pm, and runs from September through June, they assume that homeschoolers must adhere to the same schedule. The truth is, that a Homeschooler’s Schedule varies […]
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Happy New Year! Here’s a New Year’s Resolution for you… PLAY more in your homeschool this year! Here’s some food for thought, a fantastic article from CNN: Want to get your kids into college? Let them play Love, Luck & Laughter,
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Homeschooling in Nova Scotia is fairly easy. All children ages 5 to 16 (re Amendment to Education Act Regulations, Section 3(1)) must be registered by September 20th of the coming school year (although if you’re starting mid-year this doesn’t apply). Registration must include: in the case of previous public school experience, the last grade level
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This week, I asked my own children about homeschooling. I sat down for an interview with each of them and here are my children’s thoughts on homeschooling! My Children’s Thoughts on Homeschooling First I interviewed my daughter, age 6: Why Does Our Family Homeschool? Because you (Mom) want to have fun with your kids. What
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Time is one of the wonderful advantages of Homeschooling. Because homeschooling takes so much less time than a traditional school day, my children have all sorts of time to explore their interests and passions, and engage in extracurricular activities. My children’s favourite extracurricular activities incorporate quite a few of the arts. Both children are active
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I would like to invite you to explore more blogs from our TOS Homeschool Crew! Here’s our Blog Walk: 1. 1 of 100 plus 25 TOS Crew Reviews 2. Homeschooling Hearts and Minds 3. Homeschooling Drewper 4. Burkherts Brigade 5. Families Again A homeschooling Dad’s blog 🙂 6. Homeschool and Family 7. The Sunny Patch
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There are many different methods of homeschooling. Before I started homeschooling, one of the first books I read on the subject was The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise-Bauer and Jessie Wise. I am so glad that it was at my local library! The Classical Method as laid out in the book made complete sense to
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Homeschoolers love field trips! One of the best advantages of homeschooling is that you can pick up and go on a field trip anytime. If you want to avoid the crowds, all you have to do is go during the day when everyone else is at work or school, and going off-season helps too. This
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I have been meaning to create a post about Workboxes since we began using the system almost 2 years ago. Now that we have been asked “How do you organize your homeschool?” for this week’s TOS Blog Cruise, I’m finally getting around to it! If you haven’t already heard the buzz about Workboxes, it’s a
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When the TOS Crew-mates were asked to share our favourite resources for the grades we’re teaching in our homeschools, I just had to entitle it “My Favourite Things” because I sang that song for an audition at the university this weekend 🙂 Some of my favourite curricula, that we are utilizing so far this year…
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