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5 Comments Category: Children Literacy
Tags: Better, homeschool, Homeschooling, Public, Read, School, socialization and homeschooling, Than, This

10 reasons why public school is better than homeschool. –

1. Most parents were educated in the under funded-public school system, and so are not smart enough to homeschool their own children.

2. Children who receive one-on-one homeschooling will learn more than others, giving them an unfair advantage in the marketplace. This is undemocratic.

3. How can children learn to defend themselves unless they have to fight off bullies on a daily basis?

4. Ridicule from other children is important to the socialization process.

5. Children in public schools can get more practice “Just Saying No” to drugs, cigarettes and alcohol.

6. Fluorescent lighting may…

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10 Comments Category: Reading Skills Help
Tags: best, Comprehension, Help, homeschool, Reading, Skills, Someone, Their

My daughter is struggling with her school work.I am wondering if she is really reading or just day dreaming.
If she is reading than there is a problem, because about two minutes after she is done reading she doesn’t remember what she read. Any suggestions…. need real help (no jokes please)
this only happens when she is doing Scienc and Social Studies (two subjects she does not like)
she is very smart and an excellent reader. and has been classified as mentally gifted
I am trying to find out a solution, I know she is smart enough to do the work.
but does reading comprehension…

1 Comment Category: General Literacy
Tags: Curriculum, homeschool, Kindergarten, starfall, starfall kindergarten, starfall.com, www.starfall.com

For more information visit: www.starfall.com A Reading/Language Arts curriculum that is magical, creative, sequential, integrated, and combines content area instruction in Social Studies and Science – that’s kindergarten, the Starfall Way. Starfall uses fantasy as a springboard for motivating children to use their natural sense of wonder and curiosity to enhance learning. Children interact with Starfall characters in the classroom as well as through stories, songs, rhymes, practice books, writing journals, and activities online. For the past five years, Starfall has been busily developing this unique kindergarten curriculum in conjunction with a team of over 150 teachers and educators. The…

Write Comment Category: Technology Literacy VIDEOS
Tags: Buyers, Coop, EasyTech, homeschool, Integration, Technology, Tool, Video

www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org Students love technology and use it for many things. With the integration of online learning, EasyTech from Learning.com helps students learn while getting the technology skills they need. This web delivered technology literacy curriculum helps students learn subjects such as math, science, language arts and social studies. Easy Tech curriculum aligns to state standards, as well as ISTE NETS. This learning tool helps students gain confidence in learning subjects and using the computer at the same time. For more information about the product go to the Homeschool Buyers Co-op website – www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org
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2 Comments Category: Books
Tags: Basic, Children, Easy, Education, Elementary, elementary school, ESL, homeschool, Homeschooling, Instruction, Made, Number, Phonics, private, Reading, School, Special, Start, Title, Tutoring

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This is a revolutionary phonics system for teaching children to read. It will also be effective in teaching reading to illiterate or semi-literate adults. The author is a reading expert who home-schooled her own seven children. She used every available phonics system, and found them all wanting. She realised that 30 per cent of children are left behind by traditional phonics systems. She found that children are quick to use number clues to identify the different sounds of each letter. By tagging the letters with a number, she prompts the student to recall the specific sound of this letter.…

4 Comments Category: Children Literacy
Tags: homeschool, Homeschooling, Jefferson, Method, Thomas

I saw a clip today on CBS on which a homeschooling mom said she uses the Thomas Jefferson method. http://www.cbsnews. com/sections/ i_video/main5002 51.shtml? id=3917028n

I’d say that we are somewhere between unschooling and eclectic homeschoolers; I have never focused too much on “method” and so am unfamiliar with this.

I’m very curious. What exactly is the Thomas Jefferson Method?
In the video clip, the woman says you can get a child from pre-literacy to high school level in 100 hours.
How is this possible?
Is it too late to utilize this method with a teen?

Thanks! :)
*twenty-one minutes later*

Hmm apparently I’m not the only one…

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Write Comment Category: Literacy Articles
Tags: at, Cruise, free motivational message you tube by bo sanchez, have to, homeschool, Homeschooling, leadership, Like, Literacy, Look, ps3, Reading, Start

I get interviewed a lot.

Perhaps once a week, I get interviewed (No joke).

My problem is that I get asked the same questions over and over again.

So just to break the monotony, I give them the silliest answers.

Let me share with you one interview today.

Despite the jokes, I’m sure you’ll pick up something for your own personal growth. Here it is…

Q: Brother Bo, we’re going to ask you some very basic questions.

Bo: No problem. You wouldn’t know if my answers would be correct anyway, right?

Q: (Laughs) When and where were you born?

Bo: July 11, 1966 in Caloocan City. Or was that…

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