Happy Thanksgiving! (and for those outside of the US, please indulge me as we are celebrating Thanksgiving this week. I know we all have things to be thankful for every day of the year.)
Let's start this week's posts off with Maribel of APMFormulators.com as she gives tips on note-taking made easy for homeschoolers and their students.
Laurie Bluedorn presents Wilder Cave Video posted at Laurie Bluedorn.
I love the name of Katherine's blog at No fighting, no biting. That is a mantra in our house of 5 boys. She also writes a very touching post that explores the idea that others are watching us and dreaming of living our life of homeschooling.
Spunky of Spunky Homeschool asks the question, "Where Does Learning Take Place?"
Spunky of Spunky Homeschool asks the question, "Where Does Learning Take Place?"
The Cates of Why Homeschool have shared some wonderful links in their post titled Thanksgiving Proclamation, which inludes this year's presidential Proclamation and links to all the presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations with excerpts from a few. This is a great history resource. I learned so much from the links and information provided here.
Maureen Wittmann presents Keeping Tabs on Your Library Materials posted at The Thrifty Home Schooler.
Maureen also shares with us about another resource in So What, Exactly, Is This Book Youre Writing? posted at Homeschooling and Libraries.
Dana of Home*School*Home tells us about her new system of being organized and how she has made herself accountable to her kids in her post titled Motivating Mama.
Mama Hen presents Writing Class Rewards posted at At A Hen's Pace.The pictures in the article, Colors, Patterns in Nature, and Family Road Trip, from Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide of Eide Neurolearning Blog are beautiful. I very much enjoyed their ruminations on the whys of fall color variations while traveling on a family car trip through the Appalachian mountains.
Joe presents Why Homeschool? posted at Home School Central.
DeputyHeadmistress presents Winter Nature Study Ideas posted at The Common Room.
Karen Flores of the blog, By the Word of their Testimony, shares with us 10 Reasons why I am thankful.
Barbara Frank, of the Imperfect Homeschooler, challenges us this week with the article, Are We Raising Producers or Consumers? Why it's important to our children's and our country's future that we teach them to be producers as well as wise consumers.
Alasandra shares how the Superintendent of Education in Mississippe plans to scrutinize homeschooling in her post, "Bounds Bad News for Mississippi."
Rachel Starr Thomson, author of the blog Inklings, shares with us something she wrote and published in her homeschooled late teen years into her early twenties an ezine called "Letters to a Samuel Generation". Its purpose is to show that it is always God's will that we give thanks, and encourage believers to experience the blessings that come from this--even in hard times, thanksgiving releases us to trust and joy in God.
Margaret of Two Kid Schoolhouse gives some reasons why she is thankful to be homeschooling, and things she is thankful for because she is homeschooling.
Patti of All Info About Home Schooling is thankful thankful for the joys and the tears...and laughing through it all in her article, One Thing I'm Thankful For...
David Weiss of Trust the Children shares some great points with us the article, "What is Homeschooling Success?"
Dani of BUREAUCRATIC DAYCARE gives thanks to God for being able to homeschool my children in her TOP 5 REASONS I'M THANKFUL TO HOMESCHOOL MY CHILDREN.
A Dusty Frame shares some links she has found useful for single parent homeschooling in her post, "Some Homeschool Links". If you have some others you would like to share, please leave a comment on her blog.
Sue of Homeschooling Your Child shares her experience with three books, designed to help mothers build character and leadership skills in their sons in Homeschooling to Build Character--Book Review for Moms Raising Sons.
Karen of The Thomas Institute has written about homeschool support groups and why she is thankful--or not--for them in her post, "More Thankful for Some Things than Others!"
Thank you for sharing your time with us at this week's Carnival of Homeschooling. I have enjoyed being the host and reading each of these articles. Next week the Carnival will be hosted at The Common Room.
If you notice any broken or missing links, please email me. I tried to check each one of them, but I am only human and could have missed something.
Have a blessed day! Tami
Patti of All Info About Home Schooling is thankful thankful for the joys and the tears...and laughing through it all in her article, One Thing I'm Thankful For...
Sprittibee shares a post from her 2005 archives that fits our theme perfectly: "Counting My Blessings".
Mama Squirrel presents Across Africa in one week posted at Dewey's Treehouse. Kelly at Pass the Torch is thankful for a unique homeschool opportunity on the first day of accumulated snow, in her post, "Two-hour recess."
David Weiss of Trust the Children shares some great points with us the article, "What is Homeschooling Success?"
Dani of BUREAUCRATIC DAYCARE gives thanks to God for being able to homeschool my children in her TOP 5 REASONS I'M THANKFUL TO HOMESCHOOL MY CHILDREN.
Sue of Homeschooling Your Child shares her experience with three books, designed to help mothers build character and leadership skills in their sons in Homeschooling to Build Character--Book Review for Moms Raising Sons.
Karen of The Thomas Institute has written about homeschool support groups and why she is thankful--or not--for them in her post, "More Thankful for Some Things than Others!"
My Domestic Church writes about a testing problem in her article this week when her 8th grader had some surprising results on a high school entrance exam. She mentions the need to incorporate test taking into their curriculum!
Home Where They Belong writes about how we in the U.S. we tend to take for granted the freedoms that we have. The freedoms of speech, to homeschool, and to worship the God we choose in the article, "Count Your Blessings - All of Them."
Let's Play Math! gives a comparison of simple, word-based algebra and Singapore-style bar diagrams as problem-solving tools for elementary students. Sample story problems are based on the life of Ben Franklin in the article, "Pre-Algebra Problem Solving: 3rd Grade."PalmTree Pundit writes a post this week that was inspired by a post at The Common Room, and she lists ten things for which she is thankful about homeschooling in her post, "Giving Thanks."
ChristineMM presents Fathers and Homeschooling: A List of Ten Issues posted at ChristineMM. If you notice any broken or missing links, please email me. I tried to check each one of them, but I am only human and could have missed something.
Have a blessed day! Tami
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