Carnival of Homeschooling #71 ~ Southern Hospitality
2:04 AM, May. 8, 2007
Welcome to the HSB Company Porch!
Come on up and sit yerself down in that rocker there or you can set down next to me here on the porch swing. It's always nice to have a neighbor to visit with.
Would you like a tall, cool, glass of tea? It's served real sweet here in the south!
Have you heard about The Town Without Children? Leticia who blogs over yonder at cause of our joy told me about it and my jaw just hit the ground! To think! A whole town where children aren't welcome and dogs are glorified.
Now I got this story, Homeschool Kids are “Socially Challenged”!, from Beverly Hernandez, who got it from Jennie von Eggers. Beverly said, "The socialization question seems to be the old-standby, passive aggressive attack, by those outside spectators of the homeschool movement. I love what Jennie von Eggers sent to me after being questioned, "Aren’t you worried about them not getting enough socialization?" I don't know about you but that's the least of my worries.
Are you hungry? How about some pie? It's my mama's secret recipe.
If there's one thing that everyone knows, it's that homeschoolers and southerners are very giving people. From recipes to contests, or recipe contests!
Sprittibee shares a 10% discount on a super new homeschool online Art program in her post entitled “GeeArt”. Go check out her post and try their free online lesson to see if your kiddos might be interested in joining up.
Jullee Huy of Homeschool Daze Blog tells about how her husband offered the gift of life in Kidney Donation – Our Journey, Part One. Julee says, "I have never written very much about our adventure last year when my husband donated a kidney, we've passed the year anniversary and I haven't even mentioned it. Saturday is the annual Donate Life walk in our area, so I thought now would be a good time to write about our journey of organ donation. My husband has his own version, but I've never had the chance to write it from my perspective."
Alasandra explains her experience with FAFSA , scholarships etc. and her excitement about her eldest graduating from the community college. She gives us an excellent resourse for Financial Aid & Scholarships at her blog The Homeschool Cafe.
Would you mind holding this yarn for me?
You can't just sit on the porch and chin wag. Holding yarn is better than shucking peas! Crafts and activities keep hands and minds busy and out of trouble.
What have your children been doing lately to keep busy?
I like to go over to Jamin's blog, Just Call Me Jamin, every now and again to see what her family is up to. This week you can join Jamin' and her kids as they learn about the process of mummification by mummifying Barbie's and GI Joe's. It'll be a fun day! I wish my family would have thought of How to Mummify a Barbie!
Now Jimmie's blog hails all the way from China, and she has experienced a great amount of hospitality there. One Child Policy Homeschool is also never short of fun and interesting things do such as a Pyromid Diorama with Three Types of Rocks . This entry highlights a 3-D project that can be used for any HS topic. Links to the PDF printables are included.
Keeping young children busy can sometimes tax a mother's patience. Cindy West tells us about Busy Boxes on her blog On Our Journey Westward. They have been a perfect way to keep her first grader busy while she works with her daughter.
One of the best ways to keep busy is to invite someone over. Jennifer and her family are busy Preparing for Elise at Diary of 1.
Not sure what to do? Then clean! Ali and her kids of My God Given Mission Field came across a book with recipes for homemade household cleaners, and put some together. It was alot of fun, and very educational. Messy too! And to top it all off, the cleaners work just as good as store bought ones! There are even some pictures, documenting their time together doing Our First Chemistry Experiment.
It woud be impolite of me to start telling you how well my children are doing in school but asking you to tell me how your children are doing in school is always a good conversation starter! I so enjoy finding out what others are using
and doing in their homeschools.
What's So Great About Shakespeare? Good question! Linda Fay at Higher Up and Further In will explain why, when and how they study the Bard.
Homeschoolers enjoy telling others how their year, month, week, or day has gone. (Thus all the homeschool blogs!) Kelly at Pass The Torch says in April her Homeschool Experiment wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
Let's take a photo tour of Little Acorns Treehouse classroom, complete with a floor plan and an explanation of what they have done to organize their space. I love checking out how other homeschoolers set up their homes for the best possible learning enviornment.
Gena's blog, Home Where They Belong has post after post of what is taking place in public schools. This Teacher Failed Spellling, demonstrates one of the many complaints that anti-homeschoolers offer as proof that homeschooling is not a good thing. This teacher proves that you don't have to be a spelling whiz to educate children.
Southern Hospitality isn't limited to friendly talk on the porch.
Encouraging friends and neighbors with personal testimonies, advice and sometimes just a jar of pick-a-lilly is what Southerners do best.
Valerie Watne wants us to know that this article/posting is to bring comfort to those mom's who are struggling to get finished with their curriculum by the end of the school year. She let's moms know they are not alone and everything will be alright in Counting Our Pages at just4homeschoolfamilies.
Mistakes Happen!Adventuring with 3 Boyz explains that no matter how much you try to make everything perfect in your homeschool -- you are bound to make a mistake. There is no way not to but ... letting God fill in the Gaps and trying your best is the only options we have.
Lizzie from A Dusty Frame says, "I just share what we do for school as encouragement to others that if I can do this while my husband is in prison then they can homeschool too :)" She doesn't know it, but she encourages me! Here's What School Looks Like in Our House.
Nikki explains that her article today is on the simple things in life and how to encourge your children to enjoy the small things. 7ValleysHomeschool shares a Simple Time.
Last week's much-publicized estimate of what a stay-at-home mom is worth dollar-wise is not accurate for homeschool moms; one important factor was left out of the mix according to Barbara Frank. She's right and she's probably also right that The Check Probably Isn't In the Mail.... Rats.
Barb is hoping to share with other homeschooling moms the idea that sometimes we need to step back and refresh ourselves when things are too chaotic. Charlotte Mason wrote about this a century ago and it is still true today. Permission from Miss Mason for Mom to Play presented by The Heart of Harmony.
It's been fun having you visit us here on the HSB Company Porch!
Before you go I leave you with a couple of posts.
Dr. Bruce Shortt reveals yet another harsh truth about public schools in his article Will Your Child Be a Christian? at World Net Daily. This is one in depth article on the spiritual battle for our children you don't want to miss! Even if your children are homeschooled what you learn from Dr. Bruce Shortt will impower you for talking to your friends and neighbors about homeschooling.
Next week's Carnival of Homeschooling will be held at Palm Tree Pundit. I hope all of you will send in your submission. If you have never taken part in the CoH before then you can find out how at Why Homeschool.
Thanks y'all for comin'! Come back soon now ya hear!
I'm not sure if it is the way that this Carnival is presented or the subject material of the posts but it looks like I'll be reading every one this time around.
Great job!
Wow, that was an excellent post. This is only the 2nd one of these that I have read. I really liked it. Thank you for sharing all these great websites. :)
JoAnn
You did awesome. I would love to have a sip of sweet tea on the porch with you. Sounds mighty-fine compared to tending to sicky kids and being tuckered out from seemingly endless homeschooling (last stretch goes by slowest) and fretting over a possible move. :) This is a nice distraction. It will take forever for me to check out the links, though. More than one tea-time sitting, for sure!
I occasionally read the Carnival and skim through and read what sounds interesting. So far, I had only run across good Christian blogs through the Carnival. I was very dismayed when I went to School of Thoughts blog to read more on unschooling. I had to weed through so much trash talk, that I don't even know if I ever read the blog that I came for. When blogs are being considered for the Carnival, the whole blog should be taken in consideration not just one post.
I apologize for posting the entry to the offensive blog and it has been removed.
I hosted the Carnival of Homeschooling in good faith, and the entry submitted was not offensive. As the blog had been submitted in past carnivals I did not think to look at all of the blog.
HSB strives to be a safe place for everyone, and this includes the websites we offer links to.
Please note however that the Carnival of Homeschooling is not just for Christians, it is for all homeschoolers. In future carnvials hosted at other blogs readers may find blog entries they feel are inappropriate.
I appreciate that you listened and quickly took action.
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1:47 PM, May. 13, 2007, posted by Dawn
I'm not at all sure this will be posted considering what happened to School of Thought but I'd like to suggest that if HSB can't handle the diverse nature of the larger community served by the COH then perhaps they should not host any future carnivals.
The action taken towards School of Thought was not done in anger or malice. As a Christian website HSB has a responsibility to its members, that they can trust that the websites we direct them to are family friendly, the whole website. That's it. No more, no less.
In no way have I suggested that Eireann no longer submit to the Carnival of Homeschooling, to the contrary.
I find it interesting that those who are upset with my action are also upset with Henry Cate. He defended Eireann and asked that I not remove her entry.
School of Thought has not hosted the Carnival of Homeschooling as far as I can tell. This may be because she is in total disagreement with those who try to homeschool their children according to their belief in the Bible. However it may also be because she does not want to or is very busy.
From time to time an anonymous comment is left on HSB. Some are deleted some are not. I have deleted one comment from an anonymous reader on this entry. I did this because of the nature of the arguement.
After this comment, all comments from either side of the arguement, for or against, will be deleted except those made by the owners of HSB if they should leave any and one made by anonymous if they care to come back and leave their name with the same comment they left before.
If you support my action, thank you, if you don't we'll just have to disagree. What I will not do is make this a comment feeding frenzy.
Don't decide to no longer participate in the Carnival of Homeschooling because of what has taken place here. While I am looking out for the members of HSB, Henry Cate is looking out for School of Thought and I am sure would do the same for rest of you.
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