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EARLY LEARNING / Homeschooling / Going Paperless
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on: January 31, 2012, 03:26:22 PM
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Have any of you thought about going paperless? going digital for record keeping and curriculum keeping? Have you tried the NEAT Scanner? Needing help! Our library of curriculum is getting over packed, and my homeschool records are overwhelming. We have served over 35 students and we are running over with paper work and portfolios. Need some advice on how to organize all of this? I thought about scanning everything and saving on a external hard drive and then giving away the books and other items instead of keeping all of these curriculum books. I could jsut print them out when needed? HELP!  |
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EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: DRAWING with CRAYONS
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on: January 02, 2012, 07:46:34 PM
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my husband bought us a graphics tablet and my children love it. Ofcourse supervision is required but they love seeing their work come alive on the screen. There are many other child friendly alternatives in the toys section like we bought one from leap frog that the child writes on and follows the dots etc. My love them all.
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EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: DRAWING with CRAYONS
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on: December 31, 2011, 06:04:08 PM
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tracing cookie cutters are fun. We do so many things with crayons and just depends upon the type of crayons and the size for each child. My toddler uses super jumbo size crayons and crayons that are called doodles, my 3 year old uses jumbo crayons and my 4 year old uses regular sized crayons. to be honest the best crayons are crayola. We use rose art , and other names but if you intend in using contruction paper to draw on then the name brand works better, but since we are on a tight budget we use the cheapest dollar store crayons. There are many things that we use our crayons for teaching art for the color hues, and so on. We like teaching colors, and tracing shapes like leave rubbings, and coin rubbings, and so on. Sinc ewe are a more hands on family we like using all sorts of objects with our crayons. Tracing an old CD and so forth. I like to introduce markers as well so that they can develop strength in the fingers for writing practice, snapping and unsnapping the lids off and on and matching the lids with the correct marker.
And with crayons melting them down to make new crayons is so fun for the kids and it is coutne das science in the homeschool world.
I love to introduce big easy coloring sheets for the beginners and please sure to to correct their hand position everytime they start to color, this reinforces the proper hand techniques. I on the homeschool forum have some writing techniques if interested.
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EARLY LEARNING / Homeschooling / Penguin Theme Unit
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on: December 31, 2011, 03:45:58 PM
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Does anyone want to help working with a penguin theme unit for ages toddler thru 5th grade? Needing some help if anyone is interested. I have the clipart we can use.
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EARLY LEARNING / Homeschooling / Re: Afterschooling
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on: December 31, 2011, 03:41:00 PM
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We use the idea of reinforcing what is taught in school as well with theme units. I like to get the scope and sequence from the schools along with borrowed copies of the text, it is sort of like reteaching at home what was taught as school for you see we don't always agree with the teachings of secular content so we reinforce it with Biblical perspective at home. It isn't reteaching but it reinforcing with a different view sort of speak. and ofcourse we jump ahead sometimes and then the child is ready for the next day feeling more confident.
There has been alot of good ideas in this thread. Thanks you all for commenting. But remember at school allday then school all night may tire the child, if can think about hands on projects to do at home for example for math cooking is always good. Sometimes children get overwhelmed with going to school then being schooled at home as well, so we like to theme units, hands on projects, etc. that reinforce the school days work.
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EARLY LEARNING / Homeschooling / Re: homeschooling concerns
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on: December 31, 2011, 03:33:55 PM
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do not worry a lot of my homeschool parents feel the same way including myself. Homeschooling is learning as you go for the child and the parents. I find that if you use a good curriculum, review it yourself, then teach is the way to go. Having a good curriculum with the teachers guides with them is the key. Once you get more comfortable teaching then you can progress on creating your own arrangement of curriculum for your child, besides who knows their child better. There are many success stories here in my state regarding non-educated parents homeschooling their children. I have many members in my homeschool co-op that feels the same way. Like I said getting a good curriculum that has the teachers guides will help, and to when I first started this a long time ago I turned to a friend who was a great at math to help me teach algebra, once I go the hang of it (even though I took it in college) I begin to teach with no problems. Asking for help when homeschooling from another source has no shame, ask for help it is ok. Know yor limitations and get the assistance you need from others so you may help teach your child, believe me I still am asking advice from others as well.
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