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Carnival Of Homeschooling: At The Post
The Carnival is hosted this week by Miss Jocelyn at A Pondering Heart . She has the posts divided into categories like the Homeschool Blog Awards . It is buzzing all over the blogworld… the annual homeschool blog awards are going on right now At The Post. You’ve seen me mention it a few times ...
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Homeschooling in Dubai
Homeschooling could be a smart move - The National Newspaper Erina, Cairan and Cait are helping their mother bake bread in the family’s kitchen in Dubai. The children have ground the wheat and measured the ingredients, and are now kneading dough while singing a nursery rhyme in unison. > When ...
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Homeschool Blog Awards
The Homeschool blog awards are on again this year. Go and vote for your favorites in many categories and find some new favorites. Homeschoolbuzz.com is nominated again for Best Current Events, Opinions or Politics Blog . We've been nominated before but have never come close to winning. The ...
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Carnival of Homeschooling- The NaNoWriMo Edition
The Carnival is hosted this week by Janice Campbell divided into compelling chapters - In Honor of Na tional No vel Wri ting Mo nth. Mo nth. Welcome to this hundred-and-umpteenth Carnival of Homeschooling! Because November is National Novel Writing Month (also known as NaNoWriMo or nano), and ...
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Ridiculous rules for UK home schools
Via guardian.co.uk Today, I received a copy of a letter that my local MP sent to the education secretary, Ed Balls. This letter was prompted by my concerns about the Badman report, a review into home-education which was submitted in June and immediately accepted by Balls. The government may ...
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When the parent is the teacher
From The News Tribune - Seattle-Tacoma: When Anne Marie Semke was a school-aged child, she said she thrived in the public school system. She loved it enough that she decided to become a teacher and taught at both public and private high schools in Vancouver, B.C. As an adult, Semke still has ...
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Carnival of Homeschooling: Saving Time
The 201st Carnival of Homeschooling is hosted this week by The Informed Parent with a "Saving Time" theme. “What children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to ...
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So, do you like home schooling?
People always ask me, “So, do you like home schooling?” And I usually say something like, “Um ... well, um … I mean, I like it, but I just have trouble with the part where you have to learn stuff. But once you get past that ... well, um, it’s good.” The better question to ask me would probably ...
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NOVEMBER IS NaNoWriMo
In honor of National Novel Writing Month ( NaNoWriMo.org )—an international event where aspiring novelists are encouraged to write an entire novel in 30 days—there is a contest meant to encourage the aspiring YA author to get started on that novel by offering an incentive for completing the ...
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7 years of Homeschoolbuzz.com
The date November 1: In 1512, Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were shown to the public for the first time. In 1952 the United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb in a test in the Marshall Islands. In 2002 I registered the domain homeschoolbuzz.com.  ...
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Emergency Homeschooling
Kathy Ceceri has a piece on Wired.com about a guide she is organizing on what could be called unplanned homeschooling. I'm sure more than one parent has found themselves in the situation of homeschooling after an unexpected event. Some might even remain homeschoolers. After Hurricane Katrina ...
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Advice for aspiring homeschoolers - Crunchy Con
A reader writes to say that his five year old came home from public school kindergarten with a flyer alerting parents that the kids are about to have a whole week of "Just Say No to Drugs" education. It shocked him that kids as young as this are being subjected to this sort of thing, and made ...
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Carnival of Homeschooling - 200th Edition - Party On!
Consent Of The Governed is the lucky one to host the 200th edition of the carnival of homeschooling . Yes, this is the 200th edition of the COH! (Today, October 27th, also happens to be my birthday!) > Thanks for responding to the COH invites. Come on in and settle down... we have some ...
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