Home Education - Highschool
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Spreading His Wings and Flying
In only three short weeks our eldest son will be leaving home! Our second child to ‘leave the nest’ and only 12 short months after his sister, how quickly the ‘ranks’ are thinning! Carpenter’s departure date has been rather unexpected and has happened with a rapidity that is only just sinking in. He is excited and keen to begin the next part of his life journey. Twelve months ago Carpenter’s casual job became full time in many respects. For six months he juggled a full schedule until deciding his study was suffering and he needed to scale back, during the next six months he focused on his studies and his…
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Striving to Find and Maintain Our Stride
This month’s Homeschool High School Carnival is hosted by Cherished Hearts at Home and some of us are chatting about: Finding our Stride.…Homeschoolers with highschoolers, particularly long term homeschoolers tend to find a groove. How has your family’s educational philosophy evolved over the years? Where do you find yourself in the highschool years? We began our home education journey full of enthusiasm and ideals, certain we knew the way to ‘success’, however, we had some lessons to learn;) We were heavily influenced by the philosophies of Natural Learning (unschooling), Unit Study and Charlotte Mason, and whilst these served us in the younger years, though with varying degrees of success, by the highschool years it…
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Calendar Countdown!!
Many families at this time of the year are marking down their Advent calendars. We however, aren’t focused on Advent calendars ’cause we’re busy marking down the days until Anna Maria arrives home. Three days till she is here!!!!!! It has been a long year without her, five long months since she was home. Safe travels to our darling girl, we can hardly wait:):){{{}}}
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The Maths Equation
This month’s Homeschool High School Carnival is hosted by Fisher Academy International and some of us are chatting about: Homeschool Highschool Maths What does your Homeschool Highschool Maths program look like? What influenced your choices/selection? The Foundation Laying a strong foundational aptitude and positive attitude towards maths begins in the earliest years. Encouraging ‘living maths experiences, ie “How many knives do we need to set the table?” Engaging in maths through chatting, “If 8 + 8 = 16, what do you think 7 + 8 would equal?” To finding the ‘right key’ when/if searching for a more formal program are all ‘part of the equation’;) When introducing maths in…
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Fostering Independence
This month’s Homeschool High School Carnival is hosted by Living Without School and we are chatting about: Nurturing Independence in High School…. To what extent do your highschoolers collaborate in planning their studies, how do you encourage your highschoolers to take the reins of their education, what tools do you use and how is this input communicated? We have always involved our children in the planning of their studies, by highschool they are full collaborators in directing their education, I discussed this a little previously, “Planning for our high schoolers is simply a matter of keeping our goals in mind. We plan on a term by term basis, this allows for flexibility to follow interest…
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Studying The Russian Revolution
On the weekend I was updating our previous First World War plans to suit our 11th grader and I realised anew that one of the rewarding results of maintaining a blog is to be able to search your own blog for ‘those plans I wrote before’. Our 9th and 7th graders are studying The Russian Revolution this term therefore sharing our Russian Revolution plans in the desire to help someone else also searching but also to help myself in another year or two;) The books suggested below reflect what is available at our local library (alas) I’m certain there are other wonderful titles available. Websites http://www.skwirk.com.au/p-u_s-56_u-427/the-russian-revolution/qld/sose-history http://www.angelfire.com/biz5/romanovs/links.html http://www.oocities.org/athens/bridge/1230/Tsar.html http://randomnetstuff.com/page/anastasia/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Romanov An online…
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The Pen is Mighty
This month’s Homeschool High School Carnival is hosted by Take Up and Read and we are chatting about: Writing and Composition in High School What place do you see writing have in your high schoolers education? Do you use a writing program? What approach do you use? Which ‘tools’ did you use in the younger years that helped prepare your high schooler to write and prepare them to join “the Great Conversation?” Learning to write well is a high priority in our home, a goal in which we work towards from the earliest years. As our overriding academic goal is to nurture “thinkers and effective communicators, both in the written and the spoken word” a large portion…
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The Wide View: Homeschool High School Carnival
Welcome to the first edition of the Homeschool High School Carnival! We have a broad and fascinating line up of contributions, grab a cuppa and spend time perusing the shared stories from these homeschooling families, may you feel inspired, encouraged and supported. The Wide View: How does your family’s ‘big picture’/goals/educational philosophy affect/guide your planning and translate into what your highschoolers do on a daily/weekly basis? Do you generalise or specialise? Angela shares: Taking the Road Less Traveled in High School. Angela provides a brief history of how the way her teens learn is dependent on the philosophy of freedom within limits they have developed over the years, we catch a brief glimpse of…
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The Mission, The Strategy, The Focus
Participating in the Homeschool High School Carnival, in fact this is our launch edition! Sharing my thoughts today about: The Wide View….How does your family’s ‘big picture’/goals/educational philosophy affect/guide your planning and translate into what your highschoolers do on a daily/weekly basis? Do you generalise or specialise? Like many home educating families we began this journey with ideas, thrilling, inspiring ideas, with plans to set our little corner of the world on fire, along the way our journey has taken twists and turns, some as thrilling as hoped, some rather unexpected. Travelling the journey we have tried to keep the ‘big picture’ in mind, we believe that God has a plan…
