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UPDATE: Giveaway is closed.
Last week, I told you about the Home Educating Family Planner (reg. $24.95)which is a great tool for homeschooling families to use. I am very excited to be using it myself in my first year of homeschool planning! Well, now I get to give one away to five of my lucky readers! You’ll get your choice of one of these three:
The Well-Grounded Middle Schooler Planner
The Well-Guided High Schooler Planner
The Well Planned Day Family Homeschool Planner: Organize your busy days all in one place with this beautifully-designed planner. The Well-Planned Day is a family homeschool organizer, designed especially for moms. This effective, yet easy-to-use format will ensure that each day at your home is smooth and profitable. More details here.
Read on to find out how to enter this giveaway!
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GIVEAWAY DETAILS
Home Educating Family is offering a Home Educating Family Planner to five randomly selected winners.
Faithful Provisions Giveaway Disclosure: Home Educating Family sponsored this giveaway by providing me with a Home Educating Family Planner and five to give away to randomly selected winners. For more information about Faithful Provisions, please read my Disclosure Policy.
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HOW TO ENTER….
*One entry per person per method of entry per day. Be sure to enter a separate comment for each method of entry (one comment for Facebook, one comment for Twitter, etc.). This way you have a higher chance of winning.
**4 Entries per Person per Day
1. COMMENT: Leave a comment with your favorite homeschool tip.
2. NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP: Subscribe to my Email Newsletter – even if you already receive it, add an entry as a comment below!
3. TWITTER: Follow Faithful Provisions on Twitter – just copy and paste this message into your tweet
Hey! @FaithfulProv is giving away five #homeschool planners! Stop by to enter http://bit.ly/9kkQOJ
4. FACEBOOK: Follow Faithful Provisions on Facebook – just paste this message on your personal Facebook wall so your friends will see it.
Faithful Provisions.com is giving away five homeschool planners! Stop by to enter http://bit.ly/9kkQOJ
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Giveaway ends Monday, August 9th at 10 pm CST. The winner will be drawn using Random.org. Winner will be notified via email and I will post the winners at Faithful Provisions under Giveaway Winners.
Be Organized.
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Can I say I don’t have a favorite homeschool tip? I am still in debate of homeschooling my preschooler. However, I checked out this planner and love it! What an easy way for me to just gently introduce learning in each subject. I love how it includes the menu plan and other areas to jot down activities and such.
Not yet started home schooling. (Hope I can still enter)
But I got a tip from a friend with 7 she homeschools the other day I plan to use. Color coordinate all the kids materials.
I follow on facebook and newsletter. My best homeschooling tip is to take advantage of every real life experience as a teaching time. Take the time to teach and explain what you’re doing.
Don’t use a cookie cutter. Every child is different.
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Don’t forget to have fun! Remember that children learn by living life, so don’t feel guilty for not accomplishing every subject, every day.
Keep everything organized and laugh (a lot!)
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Have fun is the best homeschool advice. You are teaching your children how to be Godly representatives in the world. That’s the most important thing. Everything else they will learn naturally. I have used the Well Planned Day Middle School Planner the past two years and LOVE IT!!!! As it happens I don’t have one for this year, yet. I hope it’s me….
Don’t let Mom become distracted with her other duties (laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc.) during teaching time. It works better if Mom is not trying to Multi-task.
Don’t pay full price for curriculum. Get online on the used curriculum boards and buy everything that you can used and then sell it when you are done with the item.
Kids are learning all the time so don’t assume your home school has to look anything like a typical school classroom.
Organizing for school right now! I could use this!
Just signed up for your emails! I forgot to leave my favorite homeschool advice up there. I would say be sure to do school for the kids. Don’t get caught up checking things off your own list. Keep their best at the front of your mind.
favorite tip: relax! we are starting year two and still learning, but have to remind ourselves to relax and try to enjoy the opportunity to teach our kids!
favorite tip: relax!
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Pray for God’s guidance every day.
this will be my first year attempting the homeschool thing. I’m thinking a few keys will be organization and caffeine!!
I don’t have any tips yet… This will be my first year. Check back next year!
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This will be my first year home schooling so my only advice thus far is: PRAY!!
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Looking into homeschooling now. My sister (age 7 and adopted) has a learning disability that the local schools can’t seem to cater to. My mother can’t homeschool because of her schedule so we are considering me as an option since I am home with my 16month old. Would love this to help get us started.
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I have been homeschooling for a long time. My twin daughters are now 16 and have always been homeschooled. My best tip to anyone is to create a comfortable atmosphere. That is truly necessary for learning. I have known parents who went the super-strict route and it backfired. The whole reason we are homeschooling is to give our children our best
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I am just starting out and it seems so overwhelming. I have to remember to seek Him first each day….
I don’t homeschool yet, but I’d say pray!
Rise early. Be face to face with Jesus before you’re face to face with the kids. What a difference in makes in the day.
Shawnda, Wow! your comment pierced my heart. Excellent!
The best homeschooling tip I can think of would be to pray constantly.
Well this is my first year of homeschooling too, but I have been told by other veterans to make sure you have a great support network around you and to make sure that you take time for you each day…even if it is only for 15-20 minutes!
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I would love to have something like this…
My Tip: Anybody can do it. I homeschool my two kids and I am single (divorced), working, and on a very tight budget. But it’s what I believe I should do (Train up my children), so I make the sacrifices to do it.
Tip # 2- Get a support group – friends and family to give you a hand (or a shoulder, depending on the situation and your mood), and join a homeschool group if you can.
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Prepare, Prepare.
I think preparation takes double the time of implementation.
Your kids can do things a lot faster than you think, always be prepared and have enough things to do for the time you have set apart for learning.
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I will be homeschooling my kindergartner in the fall and so this will be my first year. No advice yet, but I sure enjoyed reading everyone else’s!!
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I say stick to the schedule. It is very easy to let the day slip away when you are having fun!
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I believe that homeschooling families need to be in some kind of network for support.
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Don’t wig out about not being able to teach your children everything. Remember that between all the busy work, recess, standing in line for water and bathroom, quiet time, lunch etc. that a school teacher spends about 5 minutes a day (at most) of one-on-one time with each child. Think about how much time your children get your attention. Society says it’s “Quality Time” that matters, NO WAY–it’s QUANTITY.
Have a plan, be prepared, but then be flexible if an unexpected opportunity (or emergency) comes your way.
When purchasing curriculum, don’t worry about what grade level it is. Buy curriculum based on where your child is academically. Example: If your child is in first grade, you would expect to buy a Grade 1 math curriculum. BUT, if you look at that curriculum and your child already knows everything in it, buy the Grade 2. Homeschooling allows flexibility to let your child work at his/her OWN level regardless of what grade number a publisher puts on a book.
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Stay on task!!
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Relax and enjoy homeschooling. That’s my tip:)
I like the tip to take each year at a time.
Enjoy the time – it goes by so fast, and most days I’m learning something new anyway! Rather than treat it like a check off sheet or something you gotta “pull off” – treat it like an adventure!!
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Schedule in your day prep or clean-up time. This maybe to work on an upcoming lesson, grade papers, clean-up a large mess, or just get assignments ready. With five kids I find this time very valuable and I really miss it when I don’t get it daily.
Here are 2 tips… we check out and listen to all kinds of books on CD in the car. It’s great to fit in extra “reading” that we might not have otherwise. And my kids love it. Even my 4 year olds ask to turn on the story when we get in.
And I color code my kids things to better keep track of them. I got a great deal on colored binders and got them in each of the kids’ favorite colors. Then I also got small tubs that fit on our shelves in the same colors. So all of Adam’s things are blue and go in the blue box. Makes for easy sorting, and better yet, easy finding!
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Don’t take phone calls during your allotted school time.
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I did not see a country rule so I will try, if Canadians are not aloud please leave me out
Usually it works. We are out in the community alot during the school day – thankfully we live in the city that has the highest population of homeschoolers in North America! But that comment gets used almost every “school” day for us.
The best advice I ever recieved for homeschooling Iactually hear over and over – and it all started at a LLLeague meeting- take what works for you and leave the rest (on advice from others). I find main stream people often want to “give” advice to myself or my children and I and now sometimes my oldest daughter just calmly reply this is what works in our family
My favorite tip would be to keep a schedule. Helps to keep you on on task and keeps you from wandering off the lesson plan.
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Grade papers at the end of every day; don’t let them pile up! Ask me how I know!!!
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Best advice I’ve received. “The first 3 years are about learning to read, after that it’s all about reading to learn.
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Set some time aside for fun!
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My favorite homeschooling tip is probably to be organized and to plan things out!
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being organized helps a lot but also being able to “roll with it” keeps things going smoothly here!
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Plan ahead but be flexible and enjoy the trip!
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Make sure your kids have a healthy breakfast before studies so they are full and ready to learn!
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Remember, more is caught than taught!
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Homeschool Tip: Let your kids be kids. I think too many parents try to cram their 3 and 4 year old brains with knowledge. Let them instead explore, read to them, do crafts, ect. They are not going to be dumb! They will grow to love learning because learning doesn’t have to be book taught. It can be just playing with Mom.
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Homeschool tip: if have questions, ask an older wiser mom- great giveaway, hope I win!
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My homeschool tip is to RELAX, everything is better when mom isn’t nervous or stressed.
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A “tip” I found this year was to use a date stamp for the kids to date their papers. Ok, this might have been obvious to others, but it i had never occurred to me. It has saved me a lot of time.
How has the date stamp saved you time? Do you need it for record keeping? What ages are your kids? I have so much to learn!
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You don’t always have to sit in a room everyday. You can go outside and sit to do the lessons or take field trips occasionally. Helps to keep your kids excited in learning!
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Read, read, read to yourself and your children!
I wanna win, too! Best homeschool tip: keep your kitchen clean and your laundry caught up.
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I would say to get plenty of sleep so you start off the day well-rested.
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I would say to relax and be patient.
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I am just beginning! Really want the planner!
Make sure your kids get a great night sleep. If they do, they will be refreshed and ready to learn!
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Relax when your children are young. They really don’t need a rigorous curriculum. There will be time for that later!
My tip is to get to know your librarian, because she will group books together for you based on what you’re studying.
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