We are a homeschool family living on a 30 foot sailing sloop (single mast sail boat). http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:16:00 -0500 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:16:00 -0500 It's a new school year! And we are going through the San Diego Neighborhood Home School in California. I know most of you will object and say this is not homeschooling. You are right. Technically my children are enrolled in a publicly funded school that gives us curriculum, works with us and helps us homeschool. We go in once a month for consultations with the consultant and set a pace for the next month. But all their learning does happen at home. In that sense, it is homeschool. And it works for us. Why do we homeschool? There are 2 main reasons. 1. The traditional public school has let our children down. They were not learning and not being challenged. We can do a better job at home in 3 months than they did in 1 year. 2. We travel a lot since we live in 2 different states. The public school will not work with us on this. But SDNH will let us travel! We can live the lifestyle we are used to living. So why use a charter school? We use charters schools because we can't afford to homeschool without it. There are free/ cheap resources but I feel better knowing that we can get anything they need to learn. I like having a "partner" in the homeschool process. Their consultant is also my friend, a parent and someone who doesn't mind if they learn at their own pace. She is creative and fun and encouraging. She makes it possible for husband and I to homeschool our children without killing each other over what we think they should do/ not do. In a way, she is our middle person bringing compassion and reality back to us! She is the person that helps us decide what is a realistic goal and what isn't. She is the support that I need that no online group can offer. And she can see if there is a problem and help fix it. I'll be posting here hopefully weekly and hope you all will welcome me into the Homeschool Blogger community. If not, that's okay. I'll understand and still browse your blogs No hurt feelings! I just want to know what you think and if I am still considered a homeschool blogger? I eagerly await your responses. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/725778/ Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:16:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/725778/ I completely forgot I had this here. Donna asked me in an email "What about your other blog"... OMG! I have another one! LOL We're homeschooling through a charter school in California now. It's called the Greater San Diego Academy. It's pretty flexible, which I like a LOT! And so far everything is going just fine. I can't find any samples of work we did before we moved though. I don't save much of anything so I am STILL hunting down anything we had. I noticed a few entries on the blog and I am going to show them, plus I am going to go through my other blog and see what is there. Hopefully I can find SOMETHING to show besides two children. Well, I am off to clean today and then we are going to check out a cool nature walk. We actually discussed weather today. We did that almost daily in TN. Once we got here it became boring. "What is the weather like today?"... "Sunny, warm, about 65." Today it actually RAINED! and it was foggy and windy and everything! Stuff actually got WET! So that livened up the math section of learning today. Heeheehee. So far we talked about nutrition and appetite. Working machines, types of boats and how the wind works in sailing (can't sail upwind, how do you get upwind then?) And we are talkign about Spring AND we're spring cleaning. The boys don't really enjoy that part though. :) Until later... Happy Learning! Dotchi http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/302866/ Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:47:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/302866/ We have really enjoyed the time we have spent in Atlanta these two days. Yesterday we went to the Coca-Cola museum. It has the history of Coca-Cola and a tasting center too! We tried soda's from around the world which was really cool! Then we walked around Underground Atlanta for awhile. We're going back there today! That was really neat to see.   The only thing I don't like is how expensive everything is! Cup of coffee- $4! HOLY COW! What does this cup of coffee do? Sing, dance and fold laundry! Well, later today we are going to check out the MLK memorial and see what the cost of the Children's museum is. We'll probably end up checking out the parks and different sites and try to spend very little. I am scouting out a grocery store too! We've saved money by making a lot of our food and filling up our water bottles.   Well, off I go! I will update this blog this weekend when we get home. For now, I am sending emails to my main blog and you can follow there. I'll have time to add to this blog this weekend.   SEE YA THEN!   Carschool Momma http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/197864/ Thu, 7 Sep 2006 09:41:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/197864/ I have been thinking about this blog for awhile now. I wasn't sure what to do with it since I usually post everything on my blogger blog. But I finally figured it out.   Since my username is carschoolmomma, I am going to use this blog to post about our carschool/ roamschool experiences. Anything that doesn't happen AT HOME.   Now I am not going to put down just the stuff that no one can afford... Like, we went to the Space Center this last week. I am also going to put down the "mundane". Like: While at the gas station, I had Miles figure out how much we could buy in snack foods for $5. He had to remember to add in tax!   What do you all think? Would that be of interest to you all?   Also, is there a function where we can email our entry to our blog and have it post? I'll try to remember to get here, but sometimes I WILL forget! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/191295/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:13:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/191295/ You know, there was thing on here that when you posted to the your blog, it had this nifty little box that you typed in and it figured out all this tedious html stuff for you. Whatever happened to that? I liked it a LOT better than this html and / and trying to remember what comes after a=enteryouremail... or was that website? ... So we had mother's day early. I had breakfast in bed and the boys gave me presents. I got the book "Dick Cheney's Survival Bible. DUCK!" a Black Eyed Peas CD (Monkey Business) and a keychain with a book with blank pages on it. I loved it! And I am spending most of the day just relaxing and doing as little as I can get away with. ... While I am sitting here being lazy, I am typing in the lesson plans for next year for math. That should make it incredibly easy for me when I finally get around to putting the assignments in the grid LOL ... Well, I have a hungry kid here. So I am going to go make dinner and snack. Have a great Mother's Day! ... OH! And tomorrow is our 12th anniversary! ... Dotchi http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/134185/ Sat, 13 May 2006 14:43:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/134185/ Hello!~~~Hello!~~~ECHO!~~~ECHO!LOL. Okay, I am not sure whay it is not doing breaks anymore. I guess I'll go to the forum that was posted in teh comments. Thanks... Uh, I forgot who posted that :) http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/115060/ Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:27:01 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/115060/ Okay, I am trying this blog again. Seeing what I did wrong. Hopefully this is it. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/115059/ Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:27:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/115059/ I keep trying to post something and it shows up as one huge block of texts. No paragraphs or line breaks. Why does it do that? I hate dealing with HTML codes and I can't remember them half the time. It's frustrating and annoying. Sometimes it does it and other times it just won't. GRRRR. And to think, I actually had something important to share! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/114971/ Sun, 9 Apr 2006 07:50:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/114971/ I have my homeschool tracker set up and ready to go! I have it divided into terms according to seasons. I have the first 2 months planned out. That'll get us through the end of May.   We finally found the happy medium to Mendel's medicine. He gets it every 2 days, then every 3 days. He seems to do a lot better on it that way.   Miles is re-doing his room and having fun with it. So far he has it set up to look like a "teen" room... so he says LOL. It has the Total Gym in it and I am doing daily inspections to make sure he's not abusing it.   I am reading Clan Of The Cave Bear. It's a great book, highly suggest it.   I better go for now. I'll try to get on here more. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/110731/ Sun, 2 Apr 2006 14:00:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/110731/ Spot the fish was Mendel's pet A fat goldfish with orange spots. He was unique and cool to see But pretty... well, he was not.   He looked like a floating basketball A floating, pudgy, orange and white   bloated, but friendly and loved to swim Behind the sunken treasure sight.   Today we fed him (as we always do) Left for a freinds house for the day When we got back, he was at the top of the tank Swimming in a most unusual way.   He was swimming upside down Right near the pane of glass... Then we realized he wasn't swimming! Our poor fishy friend passed.   We're not sure what happened But we can take a guess It was something about the battery That fell off the desk   It was on there when left, But was not when we got back And was sitting in the place Where spot loved to relax...   So... We gave Spot a few words And a saddened good-bye And we sent him a swirling To golden pipes in the sky.   Mendel is heart broken He says that he'll miss her And now he's adopted Mom's catfish named Whiskers. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/104588/ Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:28:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carschoolmomma/104588/