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End of Year Awards
I am steeped in planning the end of year awards ceremony and open house for our homeschool support group. We allow each parent to choose Academic Awards based upon the child’s performance in their homeschools. We also nominate other children besides our own for good Character Awards. This is a good way to encourage good behavior. When the children see that others take notice of how they act and what they do, they want to do better. This year our students are receiving more character awards than academic awards and I think that is GREAT! Since I’ve been making up certificates, it dawned on me that perhaps other homeschooling families…
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Proficiency Achieved: Onward, Homeschool Math
Learning Math through Online Program I don’t always toot the horn over accomplishments. I try to live humbly. But on Tuesday I wanted to shout from the rooftops because my Little Man achieved his Proficiency Badge in Algebraic Order of Operations at Khan Academy. He’s achieved several badges, but this is the one that led us to Khan Academy in the first place. So I am very excited for him. He and I are loving Khan Academy. For me, I love the freedom that I have in watching him learn and grow in his knowledge of math without feeling pressured to be the one to…
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Learning outside the Box: Of Pizza and Crackers
Sometimes, we have to think inside the box in order to learn outside the box (curriculum box) to accomplish our educational goals. This week it was a pizza box and a graham cracker box. Jonathan is studying fractions in math. He is learning to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators, mixed numbers and simplifying. A friend of our, the great Mrs. Wazoo, let me borrow a box game of pizza fractions. It was just the thing to help assure Jonathan that he was on the right track with his problem solving. He would do the math, then use the fractions to check to see if he was…
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A Typical Day and Unexpected Learning
Learning to Adapt in Order to Accomplish Tasks So maybe your wondering what a typical day looks like in a homeschool classroom. We are fortunate enough to have a nice classroom set up. Jonathan has a student desk and next to it is a small table for keeping his supplies on. I have a desk, which is really an old dining room table, where I have a computer, printer, calendar, pens and various other desk supplies. It is here, that I try to plan and organize lesson plans and keep track of Jonathan’s work. We also have a counter-top with cabinets above and below which is great for…
