Home School Diploma

I’ve been lax again. More belated carnivals of homeschooling. 

May 9 - The NerdMom is hosting Carnival of Homeschooling – jump right in

Welcome to the Carnival of Homechooling! Won’t you come on in, get a cup of coffee and make yourself comfortable? We have quite a few great entrys this week so lets jump right in!

 No matter what your education style is we all agree that life happens. One of the blessings of homeschooling is that homeschooling can work with the chaos of life! We have some great entries that specifically look at life and the flexibility of homeschooling!!!

May 2 - The LaughingLioness is hosting Carnival of Homeschooling – Pioneer edition

Each carnival writer has the option to put their compilation to a ‘theme’ if they so choose. I’ve chosen the on a Pioneer theme for 2 reasons. First, I live in the Territories and have some great pictures to share (I’m shallow like that). Secondly, because those of us who homeschool, chose, by intention or default, to Pioneer.  One of the definitions for Pioneer is one who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress. Love that. And the synonyms for Pioneer are just as rich:  leader, trailblazer, forerunner, pathfinder. Homeschooling is pioneering a new educational landscape and one that is and will change the face of the future. It takes a hardy soul to pioneer. And while each of us has our own unique hopes and dreams of what homeschooling might afford, we do so with the common effort of providing well for our children.

April 26 – “Christine The curious” is hosting Carnival of Homeschooling - A typical April

I looked through our Archived photos from Aprils past, to see what a ‘typical’ April was like for our family.

Some comforting statistics about homeschooling brought to life here by this inforgraphic. 

One interesting point, homeschool sucess is not significantly affected by household income, teacher certification or curriculum budget. These are all the things public schools reflexively cite for the reason for their failures. 

Created by: CollegeAtHome.com

I have been lax in posting carnivals recently. Too much going in the non-virtual world.
Here are the carnivals I missed but you don’t want to miss:

• April 17 – Carnival of Homeschooling: The Balloon Dog Lessons via Home Spun Juggling
• April 10 – Carnival of Homeschooling – instead of TV… via bugs, knights and turkeys in the yard
• April 3 – Blog Carnival Spring Edition via The Faithful Homeschool
• March 27 – Texas Edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling via Sprittibee

Homeschool Bytes is hosting theHomeschool Blog Carnival – Creativity Edition

We’ve all chosen to homeschool for a variety of reasons and many of us have discovered that every child is a bundle of different needs, learning styles, and undiscovered talents. Nurturing the creativity of our children fills the journey with diverse and amazing discoveries.

This week, Notes From A Homeschooled Mom is hosting Carnival of Homeschooling, to those who homeschool because of illness

Hi and Welcome to the Carnival of Homeschooling at Notes from a Homeschooled Mom. I am have homeschooled for nearly a decade now and am near the end of the journey with my children. You may have noticed I have recently changed my blog name. It was a simple change of one word: Homeschooling to Homeschooled. The reason for the change is that I now know that I wasn’t just teaching my kids, they were teaching me all along. Homeschooling has made me braver, stronger, more opinionated, and less afraid of expressing those opinions. Homeschooling has also taught me to face life standing up and not to let it mow you down. Read more…

Last week, The Common Room hosted the Homeschool Carnival. Sorry, I’m a week late!

Welcome, welcome, welcome to this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling! It’s time for a teacher inservice day. Let the kids go out to play, fix yourself a cup of tea, and replenish your homeschool toolbox as you read through the collected experiences, wisdom, ideas, and more, all shared by your fellow homeschooling parents! Read more…

LEGO® CUUSOO | Modular Apple Store

Someone has posted a Lego version of the Apple Store on LEGO CUUSOO. If they get 10,000 supporters, the idea will be reviewed by LEGO for a chance to become an official LEGO product. If the project passes the reviewand is produced, the idea owner will receive 1% of the total net sales of the product. 

It seems a bit crowded to me. 

Why Urban, Educated Parents Are Turning to DIY Education a Newsweek story via The Daily Beast

In the beginning, your kids need you—a lot. They’re attached to your hip, all the time. It might be a month. It might be five years. Then suddenly you are expected to send them off to school for seven hours a day, where they’ll have to cope with life in ways they never had to before. You no longer control what they learn, or how, or with whom.

Unless you decide, like an emerging population of parents in cities across the country, to forgo that age-old rite of passage entirely.

The Carnival of Homeschooling: Homeschooling Pensieve is hosted this week at A Life Supreme.

When I first read the Harry Potter books a few years ago, I fell in love with all 4195 pages of the saga. J.K. Rowling’s ability to carry the plot over seven action-packed books, planting little elements along the way that seem unimportant when first mentioned but are ultimately of great significance to the greater story, fills me with the greatest admiration of her storytelling ability. Read more…

I happened to run across this odd quiz online. Some of the questions and answers are ridiculous and a few of the answers contradict each other. I don’t know why I’m sharing this other that it being so bizzare.

What do you think?

Take the homeschool technology quiz!
HOMESCHOOL TECHNOLOGY QUIZ Technology can help significantly improve the homeschooling experience when used well. Take this quiz to see if you’re schooled on all of the tools out their that can enrich the experience for students learning at home.