Hello, Readers, welcome to this week's edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling. This is the most fun I have had blogging in quite a while. There are articles written on some great topics that have to do with homeschooling. So pull up a chair with your favorite beverage nearby. I think you will enjoy this week's entries as much as I have enjoyed reading them. I do apologize that I have not loaded this week's CoH with graphics. It seems that every major deadline for my business came over the week-end, and I did not have the time to spend making this CoH as pretty as I normally do.

So let's get started!

general homeschooling

Melissa of The Lilting House starts us off with a wonderful post called, "Charlotte Mason Works! But Don't Take My Word for It!" This is a continuation of her series about the joy of Charlotte Mason education.

Laurie Bluedorn presents Public Schools, Home Schools, and Private Schools posted at Laurie Bluedorn.

Megan Bayliss presents Japanese Language posted at Home Schooling Aspergers..

ChristineMM presents Creating a Reading List for My Children’s Homeschooling Plans (and About Lexile Reading Level Site) posted at ChristineMM, saying, "The Thinking Mother shares a resource for finding indpendent reading levels of children's books and tells of her current project to tweak her children's reading (homeschooling) assignments."

Rebecca Newburn presents How-To Squidoo and Educational�Lenses posted at Information Age Education, saying, "Squidoo is a free website where you can aggregate the best information or resources on a topic. There are a number of great educational resources for both students and parents."

Elisheva Levin presents His Passion Unveiled posted at Ragamuffin Studies, saying, "This blog article is about how we figured out what our homeschooled son is really passionate about and how our discovery led to a new way of looking at curriculum."

Kevin Heath presents Teaching Fine Arts To Homeschoolers Part II posted at Kevin Heath - More4kids Inc..

ANDREA HERMITT presents Homeschooling and Competition... or the Lack of It. - Homeschool - Families.com posted at Homeschool Blog.

Alvaro Fernandez presents Growing Super Athletes (each of our kids) posted at SharpBrains, saying, "On how "learning" is much broader than what we usually call "education". I think this may be helpful for homeschoolers-but feel free not to select it if not appropriate"

NerdMom presents Curriculum Freebie! posted at Nerd Family.

Summer talks about a homeschool planner she found and the stereotypes she expected to find.

The Tutor of Appollos Academy helps us with Filling in the Gaps in this article that is a resource for adult homeschool students' history lessons. I don;t know about you, but I love history more as a homeschool mom than I ever did as a public school student.

Alasandra tell us what they have been up to recently including the PEAK (homeschool group) Chinese New Year Celebration, a neat souvenir she got from Japan, and a link to a  virtual tour of Nagasaki Peace Park, which her Hubby got to visit in person.

Michelle presents Aridni’s Poetry Contest: Mixing Business with poetry posted at Aridni, saying, "Business blog hosting a poetry contest? Yeah... you wanna enter with the family?"

Laurie Bluedorn presents How to Use Noah Webster's Speller to Teach Spelling, Handwriting, Grammar, and Vocabulary posted at Laurie Bluedorn.

ANDREA HERMITT presents Who decides what gets taught? posted at Notes From A Homeschooling Mom.

The Tour Marm presents Let's Go Fly a Kite: For School and Soul! posted at The Educational Tour Marm.

DeputyHeadmistress presents What to Do When Your Kids Are Reading Classics You Haven't Touched posted at The Common Room, saying, "How to get a head start on the classics"

Maureen O'Brien presents Trinity Prep School - A Classic For The Whole Family! posted at Trinity Prep School.

Math

Denise presents Two fathoms deep and stuck in muck posted at Let's play math!, saying, "If you could plan the homeschool convention workshops, what would you want to learn about math?"

Science

Greg Laden tell us that his post this week  may be a little unusual for this Web Carnival, because it is not exactly pro-home schooling.  This is about a biologist, an atheist, and a free-thinking pre-teen who walk into a bar ... no no, they visit a Science Fair set up for home schoolers and focusing on creationism.  The post itself is, of course, brilliant, but the lengthy discussion it engendered is what you really want to focus on.  Many interesting questions are raised, and both home schooler-supporters and those with questions about home schooling have a chance to educate each other. 

family

Sprittibee presents Encouragement for the WANNA-BE Super-Mom, Super-Homeschooler and Super-Blogger posted at sprittibee, saying, "Sprittibee shares a list of previous posts that deal with burn-out, scheduling, simplifying, and getting-it-all-done. Click over for some inspiration in her post entitled: "Encouragement for the WANNA-BE Super-Mom, Super-Homeschooler and Super-Blogger"."

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of homeschooling using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. Next week the Carnival will be hosted at by the the Cates at Why Homeschool.

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