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New School Year

August 7, 2009 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

We started school this past Monday. The school year is set to end June 30, 2010 in Homeschool Tracker. We are starting a 4 day school week for the first time this year. That’s the reason for the long school year. The date will be adjusted next year, as necessary. That will leave Fridays open to work at our church’s outreach center. Of course, any work not completed during the school week becomes Friday Homework.

We use lots of different publishers for our curriculum. We use A Beka, Rod and Staff, Saxon the most. We find and use whatever books are needed to help our kids learn.

For math we use Rod & Staff for 1st thru 6th grades. If you have a child with attention issues, this is a great math curriculum to use. The most the lessons have are a simple line drawing and a Bible verse. No color pictures to draw their attention away from the math problems. 🙂

We then switch over to Saxon Math 8/7, Algebra 1/2, etc. We have had 4 kids now make the transition from Rod and Staff 6 to Saxon 8/7. They haven’t had any problems with the transition.

Our oldest is now 23, so we have been homeschooling for 18 years now. Over the course of those school years, I have used lots of different record keeping systems. For the last 2 years, I’ve been using Homeschool Tracker. I really like it the best. We used another computer program before that, and Homeschool Tracker is much more user friendly, especially for multiple students. (No, I don’t paid to say that, I am not part of their referral program, I really like it!)

I Will Survive!

May 6, 2009 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

I just LOVE this homeschool version of I Will Survive.

WeE-Books Review

May 1, 2009 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

I was able to download 3 WeE-Books from The Old Schoolhouse Magazine in exchange for writing a review of them.

I absolutely loved them!

I downloaded HomeWork – Juggling Home, Work, and School Without Losing Your Balance.

This is such an incredible e-book. From the articles written by homeschool moms about their families businesses, schooling, and schedules to record keeping and organization, I loved it all! In fact, I loved it so much, I’m going to make it required reading for our teenagers! Since they are always looking for ways to make money, I see this book as being an awesome resource for them.

In case you can’t tell, I highly recommend this WeE-Book.

I also downloaded Homeschooling the Rebel parts 1 & 2. As someone who has homeschooled a rebel, I can say that this WeE-Book is jampacked with ideas and helpful hints. To not only make your days easier, but to make life and learning easier for your little rebel.

I found the format of the WeE-Books very user friendly. With other e-books, I have found myself scrolling up and down to read the many columns on each page. But I didn’t have that problem with these. Each WeE-Book has an index and an appendix at the end. I found the appendix in the WeE-books that I read to be full of resources, I have to go back and read them again. There are so many, it is impossible to look them all up in one sitting.

There are over 40 different titles in the WeE-Book series. And get this, they are only $1.95! You can’t beat that! Homework was 92 pages long and Homeschool the Rebel part one was 16 pages long. Well worth the money. Actually, quite the deal! I highly recommend the WeE-Book series, and look forward to buying more!

How to Save Kid’s Large School Projects

March 25, 2009 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

We’ve been homeschooling since 1991, when K started kindergarden. (Technically, though, we’ve been homeschooling since he was born.) That’s almost 18 years of homeschooling! Since Z’s 8, we still have 9 more years to homeschool!

One of the frustrating things about homeschooling, is all the “stuff”. Since I still have lots of “things” papers, projects, etc. left from K & M, I have lots of “stuff” in our schoolroom.

I really want to get out from under some of this stuff. So I’m in the process of cleaning it all out. No small feat!

One of the things I’m doing is to photograph the projects to scrapbook, and getting rid of the item. Oh, it’s so hard to let go!

We made the above statues out of clay for the 2002 winter olympics. A & Z were really little, A made a snowboard on a snowpile, and Z made a curling rock. Hey, he was 2! lol One statue already lost its head.

I’m getting rid of my skier also. I never could get his head to stay upright. So I said he was looking up at the flag after he won. roflol

Cutting the clutter by taking pictures of projects Works For Me.

I imagine I will be looking at the scrapbooks a lot, as I will miss having these items around, but it’s for the best. We’ll have room for more projects!

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