Inclusive Homeschool

NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program

DreamSinger — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:05:58 +0000

NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program. This started November 1st. It’s the youth part of the National Novel Writing Month for adults, and runs from November 1st through the 30th, 2008. Even if your child doesn’t participate in the event, and set a word count goal, they should at least sign up to receive the wonderful pep talks, emails, [...]

No cyber school for us!

DreamSinger — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:37:40 +0000

To make a long story short, I had Brhiannon in a cyber school for one week. I took it on good faith that the claims of “individualized” curriculum to meet the needs of the child were exactly that. They aren’t. This is our third try with a public cyber school since we first started homeschooling [...]

Learning Disabilities, Differences and Decisions

DreamSinger — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:11:27 +0000

It’s good to have choices. But it can be crazy-making as well. We “ended” our homeschool year the end of June. Since then I’ve immersed myself into researching different cyber schools offered by Pennsylvania and learning disabilities. I have always suspected dyslexia, at least some sort of mild version of it, but I was never really [...]

Robert Krampf’s Science

PeaceGirl — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:13:04 +0000

This site is really awesome! I think you would like it a lot. Robert Krampf is funny and he teaches you a lot of science experiments that you can do and learn, and even have some fun. You have to be a member to see the full videos, but you can see this full video [...]

Good intentions

DreamSinger — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:15:38 +0000

Okay I have been remiss in keeping this blog up to date. It’s not easy being a single homeschooling mom, but I really want to do this blog. I get so many ideas and there’s not a week that goes by that I haven’t accrued a number of things I want to blog about or [...]