The list of homeschool tips and advice is HERE - please share your links and visit participants there.
I posted this call for tips at this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling, hosted by Consent of the Governed. There are always great reads at this carnival, so check it out!
Next week, I’ll share the results of our homeschool experiment. I’ll take most the week to do this, and I expect that many families considering homeschooling will click on the series over time. I’d like to end the week with a group collaboration of homeschooling tips.
So if you’re a homeschooler, please consider joining me next Friday, June 22, to write about your best advice for new homeschoolers. I’ll post a Mr. Linky, and you can link yourself to a new post you’ve written for this collaboration, or an older post, that meets this criteria. You can share one tip, or ten!
Please tell people about this writing project, so that others can participate as well. (Feel free to use the graphic above in your announcement.) I’d love to be able to provide Google searchers a “tips” post that contains all our collective expertise.
I’ll be leaving on a trip shortly after the Mr. Linky goes up next week, so your links will be the reading material for my readers while I’m gone. I hope you’ll join me!
Thank you so much for your announcements: Principled Discovery, Redbud’s Lane, Through the Looking Glass, My Quivers Full, The Zoo, My Twenty Cents Keeps Moving, Life With Two Little Vikings, Sprittibee, Happy Hearts at Home, Kris’ Eclectic Homeschool, Eclectic Education, Mom is Teaching, From Melissa’s Desk, Ten O’Clock Scholar, One Child Policy Homeschool, Our Homeschooling Expedition, The Common Room, Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood, Why Homeschool. I know I’m missing some of you. Please let me know if you’ve announced the project. Thanks!
HOMESCHOOL EXPERIMENT RESULTS SERIES:
WHY WE STARTED
the JOYS
the STRUGGLES
the FUTURE for us
UPDATE after we Quit Homeschooling
Family out of Sync
Other Homeschooling Experiment milestones:
The Beginning
Week One – Starting with a Frazzle
Five Steps to Drive Yourself off a Cliff
Week Two – Just when I thought I knew what I was doing
Week Three — Let there be CRAFTS!
One-month Review
D’s Review at One Month
Week Five – Stress and frustration
Week Seven – Flip-flopping curriculum
Note to self – Consider having low expectations some weeks
Two-Month Review — Some aha moments
Three-Month Review — Not all peaches and cream
Four-Month Review — Loving ancient history
Five-Month Review — What I underestimated
Six-Month Review – Let’s Just Skip this Month
Seven-Month Review — Curriculum review
D’s research paper — Save the Earth Saturday series
Tales of a Fourth-Grade Guinea Pig
All posts about the experiment — including WAY-COOL FIELD TRIPS!
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10:42 am
[...] Next Friday at Pass The Torch: Homeschool Tips and Advice. I’ll be participating, and ignoring the niggling little voice that says I shouldn’t because my kid is still a toddler. I’ll also be (finally) answering the rest of the questions from my unschooling post a couple months ago, so speak up if you want to know something. [...]
2:43 pm
As a rookie looking to try out a little preschool experiment this fall, I’m looking forward to all the great advice people share!
2:56 pm
I’m a veteran of over 17 years. Sometimes, after so many years, it’s hard to remember! LOL I’ll post this on my blog to help get the word out.
4:22 pm
Beth – I am really looking forward to this too!
And Sherry – Thanks so much for helping to spread the word!
6:19 pm
I’m not currently a homeschooler but I may have to become one on a part-time basis. I’m very interested in reading all the tips and advice!
9:50 pm
I am going to add this to my blog. I’m really looking forward to reading all the advice and tips people leave.
10:20 am
I’ll add this to my blog. I always like to see what advice people have for homeschooling. Great idea!
10:54 am
Kailani – I expect the tips to be excellent – I can’t wait to read them! I’m glad you’ll be reading along with the rest of us!
Chelsea and barrellful – thanks so much for joining us and telling your readers about the project!
4:02 pm
I’m back – must have read too quickly and missed your request to “pass it on” so I just posted a reminder for my readers! Good luck! http://twolittlevikings.blogspot.com/2007/06/those-of-you-who-homeschool.html
7:01 am
Great idea! I’ll have to see what I can come up with!
9:25 am
What a great idea! Can’t wait to add my own tip and read what everyone else is sharing.
11:10 am
I put an announcement up on my site. Thanks for heading this up. I’m sure it will be useful for lots of homeschoolers.
1:31 pm
Hi. I like your site, and the tone of it. It’s full of good things. I am sending people to you. I have concerns regarding education, homeschoolers and the law, and have posted on them in the recent past, mostly issues that involve freedom here in America. I am a retired teacher who works as a volunteer in a school for the disabled. I will trackback to your post. I don’t pull any punches – just letting you know.
1:35 pm
Victory for Homeschool Freedom Bill??
One has to wonder why this provision was included. Klicka is hailing it as a great victory. But, I mean, we’re talking about homeschooling, right? That means parents educating and bringing their children up in whatever religious atmosphere they deem …
9:26 am
[...] This week I’ll share the results of this year-long experiment with homeschooling. I’ll write about the joys, the struggles, and the future for us. And I’ll end the week with a collaboration of efforts between homeschool bloggers. We’re all posting our best advice for new homeschooling families, and including it in a Mr. Linky, for easy future access. I hope this will provide valuable insight to parents who are considering, or just starting to homeschool their kids. If you’re a homeschooling blogger, please join in! And let me know if you announce the project — I’ll link to you. For details, click here. [...]
9:37 am
[...] Pass the Torch is calling for homeschoolers to share their best tips. Go to her blog on Friday, June 22 and add your link to the Mr Linky she’ll have up. I’ll be adding my own post to the collection and I hope you will too. It will be fun reading all the great posts submitted. [...]
3:12 pm
I announced this on my site. Great idea!
7:19 pm
[...] Thank you all for joining me for results week. And if you’re a homeschooler, please remember to write your advice post and put your link here on Friday. Thanks! [...]
7:22 pm
This is an awesome idea. I’ve been homeschooling for 8 years and am starting all over for another k-12 run. I’m anxious to see how this works and will be keeping an eye on your blog.
8:40 pm
Oooh! I can’t wait to read all the advice. We are just starting to homeschool. I heard about this from Melissa’s Desk and I will be back to read all the good advice!
9:17 pm
[...] Please stay tuned tomorrow, for part four in the Homeschool Experiment Results series — Our Future, as well as the homeschool blogger “tips and advice” collaboration the end of this week. [...]
10:46 pm
I’m hoping to participate, but at the very least I’m going to link now and again on Friday! Can’t wait to read the great tips.
Kerry
3:23 am
What a great idea! I’ll have to see if I can come up with something. I’ll be sure to post about it on my blog.
3:45 am
Hi! I can’t wait until Friday! Here is my link to my tips for HS abroad:
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Jimmie/344999/
Love the graphic too!
3:26 pm
For new homeschoolers, you’ve probably read tons of information, looked at tons of curriculums, chosen something a friend or a group highly recommended, therefore my only advice is to take a deep breath and relax. Learning happens.
10:27 pm
[...] Please stay tuned tomorrow, for the grand finale of the Homeschool Experiment Results series — a collaboration of homeschooling advice and tips, from homeschoolers all over the blogosphere. If you’re a homeschooler, please remember to write your advice post and put your link here on Friday. Thanks! [...]
6:49 am
Here’s my link to “12 Head-Thwackingly Simple Homeschool Tips (I learned the hard way)”
http://www.brokenhomeschool.com/?p=89
7:17 am
[...] During our homeschool experiment (links are at the bottom of the page), we’ve benefitted from so many bloggers’ advice and ideas. I’ve generated my own tips throughout the year as well. So I’m hosting this “HOMESCHOOL TIPS AND ADVICE” project to collect links for new homeschooling families, or those considering it. Please write a post to share your own tips, and announce/link to this post, so your readers can find all the great tips as well. Then post your PERMALINK here in Mr. Linky. If you don’t have a blog, please feel free to share your tips and advice in comments. I’ll leave this post in first position, while I’m on vacation over the next week. Thanks! [...]
11:47 am
“Parents are dramatically pulling their children out of public schools to homeschool them instead. According to the National Center for Education Statistics the number of homeschool students in 2003 is up 29 percent from 1999. Just imagine the increase of homeschool students in America now in 2007…”
This is just a teaser from one of my many blog postings. I try to focus on homeschooling and education issues in America. Thanks for doing this!
8:51 am
Share Your Best Homeschool Tips
This is a fun project where veteran homeschoolers share their tips and advice to new homeschoolers. There’s also a link to the list of participants.