Wednesday, September 15, 2010

NEw Link Added

I added a new link today... http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/.  My friend Lori H. who recommended it to me for my blog, says this is a good one with great freebies for educators.  Maybe this site will have something you are looking for.



Wednesday, September 1, 2010

NEW! Selkirk Homeschoolers!

I attended the meeting up north for the Selkirk Homeschoolers.  Wow!  It was fantastic, encouraging, and a beautiful drive.  Ion, where the meeting was, is a great place to visit and explore.

The guest speaker, from a Spokane bookstore that sells homeschooling books, was right on track giving information about beginning to homeschool to those in attendance.  She also spoke to  those of us who have been homeschooling a while, giving us a bit of encouragement.  This was the first meeting of this new group and there were about 25 in attendance.

 Homeschooling is appealing to a lot of people for a lot of reasons, and we were a diverse group of people from a lot of different walks of life... Professionals were there as well as stay at home moms; men as well as women wand there were current homeschooling students there too. Homeschooling is not unusual or impossible to do.  Lot's of people teach their own children to read and write and oversee their own children's educational welfare outside of the public education realm and people choose to do this... they educate their kids outside of the public school classroom and outside the public school funding for a lot of different reasons.  Whatever your reason, homeschooling is a worthwhile and viable educational option.

I am limited in photos, but we were all encouraged that day.