As a new homeschooling blogger at Families.com, I wanted to know everything that has been discussed to date. In response to my own curiosity, and in an effort to make perusing our articles easier for you, our readers, I have compiled all of the blogs for the year 2006.
Deciding to Homeschool
Reasons that Homeschooling Works!
My Most Important Advice for Homeschoolers.
Instead of standing up for their own
kids, why not stand up for all kids?
Disclaimer: I am hardly an expert in education.
Did You Know? ‘Empirical Evidence’ that Homeschooling
Works!
Getting Started
Getting Started in Homeschooling: Resources & Ideas
for the Novice
Ways to Make the Most Out of a Homeschooling Book Fair
Deschooling: The Fallacy of Comparing Children
Defending the choice to homeschool:
Legal Issues:
Home School Legal Defense Association
Equal Access Laws for Homeschoolers
Personal/Social & Issues:
Why I Homeschool: An Answer for Kaye
Mother Knows Best: Why I Homeschool, Part One
Mother Knows Best: Why I Homeschool, Part Two
10 Reasons I’m Thankful I’m Homeschooling
Reasons I Am Glad We Homeschool: Bad Days
Reasons I am glad I homeschool: Class Size
Reasons I am Glad We Homeschool: School Evacuations
Reasons I am glad we homeschool: Integration/Segregation issues.
Dr. Phil Doesn’t Get Homeschooling
The In-Laws and Your Homeschool
I Don’t Judge You for Not Homeschooling
Is it the product or the process?
Don’t Homeschool–You’ve Got PMS!
Those Blasted Grass Roots Movements
Home Schools Run by Well Meaning Amateurs: Part 1
Home Schools Run by Well Meaning Amateurs: Part 2
Proving it can be done in Australia
Discussion Points
Homeschool Socialization:
What About Socialization? Are Homeschoolers Deprived?
Homeschooling and Socialization
Things Homeschoolers Cannot Teach their Kids
The Questions Continue Part 3: The Big Socialization
Question
The differences Between Homeschooling and Public School at Home
Homeschooling in Lieu of Suspension
Homeschoolers Control their Children’s Environment.
Who Says Homeschoolers Don’t Have a Prom?
Beating a Dead Horse (more on Socialization)
just stop answering the socialization question!
Dads and Homeschooling
Things Dad Can do to Support his Homeschooling Wife
Questions and Answers:
And What about the Prom? Silly answers to the silliest questions about homeschooling.
The Questions Continue Part 2: Q and A with Kaye
Parenting Gone Wrong–An Answer for Kaye
Homeschool Burnout:
Ten Tips On Reducing Homeschool Stress
Confessions of a Supermom: I
Never Burn Out
Confessions of a Supermom: Fun
Things We Do to Blow Off a School Day
Confessions of a Supermom: The
Doldrums
Confessions of a Supermom: The
Big Picture
10 Ways for a Homeschooling Mom to Support Herself.
Misc.
Homeschooling for the Long Haul
When Homeschooling Isn’t Working
Homeschooling Sectarianism & How It Hurts Us
When You Should Reconsider Homeschooling
11 Resources for Distance Learning (Plus resources for Special Needs!)
Why You Should Keep Good Records–Even If You Don’t Have
To
Do Not Instill a Love of Learning in Your Children
The Dangers of Short Term Homeschooling (Part I)
The Dangers of Short Term Homeschooling Part II
The Deschooling Series: The
Fallacy of Traditional School
Quarterlies,and attendance
IHIPs, Quarterlies and Attendance: Oh My! Part 2 :IHIPs
IHIPs Quarterlies & Attendance: Oh My!Part 4 :Annual Assessments
Objectively Evaluating My Perfect and Precious Darlings
Special Needs:
Dyslexia and Homeschooling – A Learning Challenge Shared
By Many
7 Tips for Beginning to Homeschool a Child With an Autism Spectrum Disorder
Protecting your Special Needs Homeschool
Homeschooling Special Needs Kids: Resources
Homeschooling by age group
Tips for Homeschooling Multi Aged Children
Preschool:
Homeschooling Multi-Aged Children: Setting Up a Preschool
Learning Area
What Your Preschooler Should Know: Part II
What Your Preschooler Should Know: Part II
What Your Preschooler Should Know: Part 3
Why I Don’t Believe in Early Childhood Education
Academic Readiness Skills for Young Children
Tips for Home schooling Multi-Aged Children: Printable
Worksheets for Preschoolers
Elementary
What Your Kindergartner Should Know: Language Arts
What Your Kindergartner Should Know: Mathematics
What Should Your Kindergartner Know Part 1: Social Studies
Suggested Reading List for Kindergarteners
What Your First Grader Should Know: Math
What Your First Grader Should Know: Language Arts
What Your First Grader Should Know: Science
What Your First Grader Should Know: Social Studies
What Your Second Grader Should Know: Math
What
Your Second Grader Should Know: Science
What Your Second Grader Should Know in Social Studies
Middle School
High School
Recommended Reading for the Tenth Grade
Reading List for Twelfth Grade
College Prep
Colleges and Universities That Have Accepted
Homeschoolers
Preparing the Homeschool Portfolio
Can Homeschoolers Go To College?
Homeschoolers at Harvard? Colleges Seek Homeschoolers.
Homeschooling Groups
Scheduling your Time:
Homeschooling on a Public School Schedule
Creating a Homeschool Schedule
Why We’re Not Going Back to
School(year round homeschooling)
Learning styles:
Learning Styles for Home Schoolers
Teaching Your Auditory Learner
Homeschool Curriculum & Resources:
7 Ways to Make the Most Out of a Homeschooling Book Fair
Language Arts:
15 Writing Prompts for Thanksgiving
Writing Activities and Ideas for the Reluctant Writer
46 Alternatives to Writing a Book Report
Books for Homeschoolers, in Review: Vocabulary Cartoons
Homeschooling Days: The Family Journal & Writing
Phonics Activities: Teaching Phonics at Home
A Slanguage Activity From Down Under
Aussie Slanguage An English Language Lesson from Down Under.
Building a Homeschool Library: The Classics (Part I)
Building a Homeschool Library: The Classics (Part II)
Tips for Teaching Penmanship (pt 1)
Tips for Teaching Penmanship (pt 2)
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Word of The Day:
Syncretism (seen-kru-tism)
Vocabulary Word of the Day: Exacerbate (egg-za-sir-bate)
Vocabulary Word of the Day: Mediocrity (meed-ee-ock-ritty)
Vocabulary Word of the Day: Autodidact (auto-die-dakt)
Vocabulary Word of The Day:Extreme (ex-treem)
Fine Arts
The Questions Continue Part 1: We love Art, Music and P.E.
A Few of My Favorite Things: Music at Home
A Few of My Favorite Things: Art
Foreign Language
10 Good Reasons for Foreign Languages
History
Commemorating the Constitution – Attention Utah Residents!
Geography
A Few of My Favorite Things: Geography
Math
What Your Second Grader Should Know: Math
What Your Kindergartner Should Know: Mathematics
What Your Second Grader Should Know: Math
Science
Science at Home: Super Solutions
My Very Excited Mother Just Ate Nine: Living History and Homeschooling
Homeschool Philosophies
Charlotte Mason
Homeschooling Philosophies: The Charlotte Mason Method
Classical or Trivium
Eclectic:
Curriculum
Options- Traditional Religious Instruction
This Isn’t A One Room School House Kind of Thing – Virtual Learning and Umbrella Schools
So what Exactly is Relaxed Homeschooling?
A Day in the Life of a Relaxed Homeschooler
A Day in the Life of a Relaxed Homeschooler, Part III
A Day in the Life of a Highly Regulated Relaxed
Homeschooler
A Day in the Life of a Highly Regulated Relaxed
Homeschooler–Part 2
Schools for your Homeschooled Kids
Montessori Homeschooling
Unit Study
A Unit Study Starter on Backyard Astronomy
A Unit Study Starter on Castles and Medieval Life
Unschooling:
Uneducated Unschoolers on the
Loose
Extra Curricular activities
Field Trips
Stop being a Slave to your Curriculum!
Homeschooling Multi-Aged Children: Museum Memberships
Fun Stuff:
Thoughts On Spring Break –
Homeschooling and Having Fun!
Confessions of a Supermom: Fun
Things We Do to Blow Off a School Day
Creative Celebrations: Homeschool Activities for August.
Homeschooling During Summer Vacation:
Creating a Summer Scrapbook
Homemade Play Dough and Clay Recipes
Free stuff:
Cool tools:
Using Monday Night Football for Tuesday’s Lessons
Flat Traveling: We love Stanley!
Holiday Homeschooling
7 Thanksgiving Math Activities
The Homeschoolers’ Advent Calendar: The North Pole
A Homeschooler’s Advent
Calendar: Tis the Season for Writing
The Homeschoolers’ Advent Calendar: Holiday Books to Treasure
The Homeschoolers’ Advent Calendar: Community Service
The Homeschooler’s Advent Calendar: Handel’s Messiah
The Homeschooler’s Advent
Calendar: Crafty Activities at Families.com
The Homeschoolers’ Advent Calendar: The Polar Express by
Chris Van Allsburg
The Homeschoolers’ Advent Calendar: Gingerbread
Structures
The Homeschoolers’ Advent Calendar: Christmas Science
The Homeschoolers’ Advent Calendar: The BIG Shopping Day
5 Great Christmas Gifts for the Homeschooling Family on Your List
10 Items Homeschoolers Will Want For Christmas
Creative Celebrations: Home School Activities for July
Tips and Ideas:
Using Educational Television Programs
You Have to Have Spunk to Homeschool
The Elusive Homeschooling Schedule
Your Homeschool Bloggers
Valorie Delp:
Why I Homeschool: An Answer for Kaye
*For State Requirements, look for the list compiled by Valorie Delp
Andrea Hermitt:
New Homeschool Blogger Introduction
I hope you enjoyed this year in Review. I designed it as an outline so you can come back often and use it again and again to get all the information you need.