Posted on November 30, 2008 by Shannon Buck
I last posted about my article Single Mothers Homeschooling Part 1: Before You Begin, I have added four more articles making it a series, with more articles to come.
Single Mothers Homeschooling Part 2: Homeschooling and the Law
Single Mothers Homeschooling Part 3: Setting up a Portfolio
Single Mothers Homeschooling Part 4: The Socialization Issue
Single Mothers Homeschooling Part [...]
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Posted on November 25, 2008 by Shannon Buck
I wrote this post today on my Single Mom blog, and it can be found here. I will be posting a whole series of articles on the topic of single mothers homeschooling at the Single Mom blog, and I will post here every time one is posted on the other site so that you may [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2008 by Shannon Buck
My nephew and I are studying The Wild West and Pioneer Days. We are going to be creating a newspaper from that time period. We may actually do more than one, as there are quite a few topics that we want to touch upon.
Shannon
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Posted on October 29, 2008 by Shannon Buck
Gone with the Wind
The Patriot
The Blue and the Grey (The North and the South)
Saving Private Ryan
You may want to monitor what younger children are watching.
Shannon
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Posted on October 26, 2008 by Shannon Buck
I love movies and television series that deal with pioneer days. The ones listed here are my favorite.
Father Murphy (series)
Young Riders (series)
Sarah, Plain and Tall trilogy
Little House on the Prairie
Love’s Abiding Joy movies
Shannon
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Posted on October 25, 2008 by Shannon Buck
I found this while searching the web today. Thought it may be useful to some of you.
http://www.learningtreasures.com/vampire_bats.html
Shannon
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Posted on August 26, 2008 by Shannon Buck
We start our homeschool year on the second of September. My 16 year old will be mostly homeschooled. Because I am not strong in math and science, and because she wishes to go to college, we have decided to send her to a local high school for those two classes only. The one closest to [...]
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Posted on August 21, 2008 by Shannon Buck
This is a shameless plug for my new blogging job. This is a wonderful blog with many links of concern to the single mother. I have already created quite a few categories, and I will add more over time. The categories that I have created so far are:
Money Matters
Pamper Yourself
Kitchen Helpers
Family Times
The Teen Years
Crafty Children
Parenting [...]
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Posted on June 11, 2008 by Shannon Buck
Zowie will be away for educational purposes this year, so she will not be doing a project until next year. My original plan had been to have her to one over the summer, but she will not have time because she joined the Upward Bound Program at the university.
However, I still wanted to share this [...]
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Posted on June 11, 2008 by Shannon Buck
It is going to be different, planning a homeschool year for only one child. It won’t take as long, either.
At any rate, Zowie finished the school year up on Friday. She has already chosen a project for next year, and a lot of the books she wants. I have been busily trying to locate them [...]
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