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Homeschooled Kids Blog Carnival #21
Posted on March 30, 2011
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Welcome once again to the homeschooled kids blog carnival. Now that spring is in the air, it’s time to dust off our blogs, get rid of the cobwebs and make some fresh posts.
Tradition says that the Homeschooled Kids Blog Carnival starts with our new bloggers. We have four new bloggers this time – so a warm welcome to them. Let’s find out more about them.
ScienceBear needs more lego. But he has still managed to make a really neat creation.
PurplePixie loves to write and her new blog is a perfect excuse to do more of it!
Laura Ashley shares our Spring thoughts with her Easter cookie recipe. Yum!
Christopher shares some facts about Northern Cardinals.
Please do go and take a look at our new bloggers and leave them a comment to introduce yourself.
So, what has everyone else been up to?
Vienna is making a fresh start with her blog (nice new theme, Vienna).
Benny has been taking a Latin test – and enjoyed it.
Captain Jinx has decided to make a whole new start with his blog.
Unicorn has had a birthday.
But all is not well for every blogger. Just as spring can suffer a setback with a sudden sharp frost, so can blogging.
Sciencemouse shares a horrible practice used on horses.
Gecko hasn’t posted for over a month (luckily we get a catch up!)
Elijah is out to battle.
Kitten is writing about a very cold winter wonderland
Luckily there is more fine weather around the corner! And some blogging stories to make us smile.
This week Araya tells us about hyenas.
NeonGlitter shares a notebook tutorial.
Katelyn will be interested in the tuturial, as she tells us what she likes and dislikes about notepaper. She also shares something cute.
Akiko has been drawing star signs.
LifeinStories shares her dreams.
And as we have a Spring theme this month, maybe we could end with some flowers and photos!
Kanchita shares some beautiful ones.
Or how about this spring photo essay from MentalWeight?
And let’s end with more photos from StoryGirl, but this time from the work of architect Frank Gehry.
Thank you all for joining in the Kids Blog Carnival. I hope you get lots of visits and comments – and are back again next time.
| That is it for this edition of the Homeschooled Kids Blog Carnival. The next carnival will be at the end of May 2011. |
I hope you enjoyed the Homeschooled Kids Blog Carnival #21. If you would like to submit a blog article to the next edition of the Homeschooled Kids Blog carnival please use the carnival submission form or send me an email. You can find out more about the carnival here.
Let me know if you spot an error, or I have missed someone!
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Back to Homeschool Magazine for Girls
Posted on February 23, 2011
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Two homeschooled girls have seen a gap in the market for a magazine aimed specifically at homeschooled girls – so they started their own!
Back to Homeschool magazine is packed with interesting articles for girls who are homeschooled – and it is free to subscribe.
But the girls now need your help. They say
Only you can help BTH survive its first year! You are the readers. You are also the contributors. We cannot keep BTH going without it’s most neccesary part: the content!
Back-to-Homeschool has had over 2,100 unique visits to it’s website, and over one hundred subscribers! But has had zero submissions to the magazine. Although the second issue will successfully come out with cool new content, the content was only written and submitted by the founders and their friends. It will be difficult to find unique content created by different people unless the readers send it in themselves!
Don’t worry- we have no intention to stop publishing Back-to-Homeschool online- we know that this is important to many homeschooled girls! But if after a few issues we still have no submissions, we don’t know what we can do to keep providing our readers with fun and unique content by homeschooled girls throughout the world if no homeschooled girls are sending in anything! We can only do so much to publicize BTH- we’ve contacted websites, homeschool groups, and homeschool magazines. But it’s up to you to send in your awesome stories, interesting non-fiction adventures, amazing pictures and art, educational articles, cool crafts, delicious recipes, and important homeschool advice!
Therefore, what are you waiting for? This is your chance to have your work seen in BTH magazine by homeschooled girls of all ages! Contribute to BTH- it’s fun, easy, and great for readers everywhere!
Why not visit the girls site and see if you can help? – Back to Homeschool
Homeschooled Kids Blog Carnival #20
Posted on January 29, 2011
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It’s time for another edition of the Homeschooled Kids Blog Carnival! I wish you all a warm welcome – and a Happy New Year.
And the new year is the theme for our carnival this month. It seems like a time for new things to happen, doesn’t it? New adventures, new opportunities – and new things to learn.
New blogger Kanchita , for example, is on a trip to South America. She has lots to share this month, including details of a floating school.
Sometimes, one of the opportunities we have is how we handle the not so good things that happen during the year.
KeiBug has had an unusual birthday! Things certainly didn’t quite go as planned.
Alice the Bunny got left behind while Emma went to the theatre.
A very sad thing has happened to Vienna. I am very sorry to hear of your loss, Vienna.
And Soccercat had to get up early to celebrate Christmas. I know most of us would love to get up so early on Christmas morning – but imagine if you HAVE to!
A New year is also a time for thinking about things – and sharing.
Story Girl has been wondering why there are 7 days in a week.
Dodgedude has 10 tips for saving gas.
MentalWeight has been learning about WWII .
Araya wants to tell you about a great site she found.
Captain Jinx has been showing us his signature.
Several of you also have lots of great things happening to you.
Benny got a cello.
Alex and Leperdy has joined a lego league.
NeonGlitter has (another!) new blog.
Kitten had a big blog day.
Some of you have been making things happen too:
Tayler has been making beautiful collages.
Gecko has been reviewing a movie.
Akiko continues her beautiful drawings with a summer fox.
Elijah has been writing a fish story.
Why has Katelyn been playing chess? What else can she accomplish?
I hope that you all continue to make wonderful things happen this year.
And you are off to a great start because this blog carnival wouldn’t happen without you all, and your fantastic blogs. Thank you.
| That is it for this edition of the Homeschooled Kids Blog Carnival. The next carnival will be at the end of March 2011. |
I hope you enjoyed the Homeschooled Kids Blog Carnival #20. If you would like to submit a blog article to the next edition of the Homeschooled Kids Blog carnival please use the carnival submission form or send me an email. You can find out more about the carnival here.
Let me know if you spot an error, or I have missed someone!
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Fruit Leather
Posted on September 10, 2010
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Have you ever tried making fruit leather? It is really easy to do – and very yummy! It is a great way of preserving fruit – and of course makes a wonderful edible craft for kids. You can use almost any fruit – or even pumpkin!
Learn Nothing Day – July 24th
Posted on July 23, 2010
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Learn Nothing Day – July 24th
- Most of you will know that our children are learning all the time. Well, Sandra Dodd of Unschooling fame has decided enough is enough. Our children need a day off – a learn nothing day. So July 24th has been designated as a learning holiday. And you are requested to try not to learn anything at all for the whole day to keep this day special.
What about you? Got any plans? Can you change them? Is it really possible to learn nothing? Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.
Home Educating Cats!
Posted on July 17, 2010
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Been having fun comparing home educating to petting a cat! You can read my article How to Start Homeschooling to find out more. Happy Reading!
Free Audiobooks
Posted on July 9, 2010
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- Sync are giving away 2 free audiobooks a week over the summer.
- They say the audiobooks are aimed at ages 13 and up, but I think some of them (like Treasure Island and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland), are fine for younger ones.
- Getting hold of your audiobooks is a little bit of a trial! As far as I can see you have to give them your email address for each download here – and you also need to download the free software Overdrive. But once you have downloaded the file then you can import it into itunes (as music not an audiobook) or burn them to a CD.
- Some of the books are not available worldwide – but you might want to try downloading them anyway
- Hope you enjoy them!
Home Education Report Flawed
Posted on June 17, 2010
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NEWS RELEASE
June 17th, 2010
Ofsted Home Education Report Seriously Flawed Says Graham Stuart MP
Graham Stuart MP, who last week was elected to take the Chair of the
Commons Education Select Committee, today condemned Ofsted’s report on
home education, “Local Authorities and Home Education” as “an
unpleasant hangover of the last government: a manifesto for more state
power at the expense of dedicated home educators and their children”.
Mr Stuart went on, “It is astonishing that the Chief Inspector of
Schools should stray onto home education and get it so wrong. In
Ofsted’s official press release she says that “it is extremely
challenging for local authorities to meet their statutory duty to
ensure children have a suitable education”, when they have no such
duty. Parents, not the state, have the statutory duty to ensure that
their children have a suitable education.
“I find it deeply concerning that, after months of work, the Chief
Inspector should make such a basic mistake and so utterly confuse the
duties of local authorities and parents. Parents who home educate
deserve our respect and awe at their dedication and achievements, not
the relentless suspicion of an over mighty state.”
Under section 436A of the Education Act 1996, inserted by the
Education and Inspections Act 2006, local authorities have a duty to
identify children who are not receiving a suitable education in their
area, so far as it is practical to do so. As the 2007 Elective Home
Education Guidelines for Local Authorities make clear, however, ‘local
authorities have no statutory duties in relation to monitoring the
quality of home education on a routine basis’ and are only required to
intervene if it appears that parents are not providing a suitable
education.
Mr Stuart went on, “As local authorities do not have the power to
demand access to home educated children and cannot insist on parents
registering with them, the obvious and correct answer is for local
authorities to improve their support for families so that more
families make contact with them voluntarily. If they did this and made
sure that they employed sympathetic staff who built good reputations,
then the number of “unknown” children would be reduced. Such a
positive approach would respect the primacy of parents in determining
the education of their children and put the onus on local authorities
to serve and support, rather than catalogue and monitor, families who
home educate.
“Ofsted’s report has little to say about improving local authority
support for home educated children and says only that the Department
of Education should “consider” funding an entitlement for
home-educated children to take public examinations. Ofsted’s report is
seriously flawed and damaging to the confidence of home educating
parents who had hoped that the relentless disinformation and bullying
of the previous regime was over.”
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