Let’s Get Ready for a New School Year Super Set!

Let’s Get Ready for the New School Year Mommy Planner…
Ebook by Cindy Rushton

Need some help gearing up for the new school year? Wish you had a friend to take you by the hand and help you plan your year? You will LOVE this! It includes a quick Mommy Planner with a potpourri of planning sheets from all of Cindy’s products to help you get started on the right track with your homeschool planning. It is full of goodies! AND YOURS…

Download Part One
http://www.cindyrushton.com/pdfs/GearingUp1.pdf

Download Part Two
http://www.cindyrushton.com/pdfs/GearingUp2.pdf

PLUS! Companion Audio!
Let’s Get Ready for a New School Year-Audio

Download by Mp3

After you finish this resource, if you need more help, you will want to check out Cindy’s Organized Mom Super Set. It includes audios and ebooks that will help you in even MORE detail. I love it. It is one of my favorite resources for getting organized and on the right track for my homeschool year.

Best news! This week she is offering a special when you order that set. You also get free access to Cindy’s huge audio set, Organization 911! Help for the Messy Mom and her NEW Let’s Get Organized for the New School Year Seminar Set. Check out the details here.

Happy Homeschooling!

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• Textbook based or School at Home-This is what most non-homeschoolers envision when they think of homeschooling, though I doubt it is the most popularly used among homeschoolers themselves. These families often get all of their curriculum from 1 supplier like Abeka, Bob Jones or CLASS and work systematically through the books in their “schoolroom” or at the kitchen table. This is often how many homeschoolers start homeschooling, especially if their children had attended a public school previously

• Unit Studies- Families who use Unit Studies work in one topic for several weeks or months but they work across the curriculum on that topic. Of ten families who use Unit Studies have each child in age appropriate math but work in history, reading, writing etc into the topic they are studying. Parents can design their own unit studies or there are many pre-designed studies on the market today. Unit Studies are great for working with multiple children of differing ages.

• Unschooling-Unschooling is also known as interest-led or child-led learning. Unschoolers learn from everyday life experiences and do not use school schedules or formal lessons. Instead, unschooled children follow their interests and learn by experiencing, researching and asking questions.

• Charlotte Mason Method-The Charlotte Mason method has at its core the belief that children learn best from real-life situations. According to Charlotte Mason, children should be given time to play, create, and be involved in real-life situations from which they can learn. Students of the Charlotte Mason method take nature walks, visit art museums, and learn geography, history, and literature from “living books,” books that make these subjects come alive.

• Eclectic-Eclectic or Relaxed homeschooling is the method used most often by homeschoolers. Basically, eclectic homeschoolers use a little of this and a little of that, using workbooks for math, reading, and spelling, and taking an unschooling approach for the other subjects.

Homeschoolers also use methods like lapbooking, notebooking and other project based ways of learning to supplement the constant use of textbooks and tests. Most children learn best when they experience something. Homeschooling gives families the freedom to get their hands dirty and learn together.

Do you want more information on homeschooling? My friend Cindy Rushton has completed her Ultimate Homeschool Expo 2009 but, since it is a virtual expo, you can attend any time! I love being able to listen to a seminar when it fits in my schedule and I can listen in my pajamas and no one else knows! To check out the Ultimate Homeschool Expo 2009 just click on th link.

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Each week you input that week’s spelling list and then your child can study his spelling words even when you aren’t available to dictate the words to them. We used it this week for our Bible class. My boys had to know the books of the Bible in order and be able to spell them correctly. I input they words, it just took a few minutes to set up, and then they used SpellQuizzer to practice the words. It worked great!

The SpellQuizzer website has some downloadable spelling lists that you can use over the summer for enrichment or homeschoolers could use them too. Since you create the spelling list in SpellQuizzer, it works with any spelling curriculum.

SpellQuizzer is very affordable at $29.95 and, since it is customizable it will last for years. If you’re still not sure if SpellQuizzer is for you check out their free 30 day trial. This is a great offer-you get to try it before your buy it.  Go to the website, download your free trial and check it out. If you think this is something you’d like to share with a friend please use the ShareThis button below to share it, stumble it, tweet it or Facebook it. Thanks!

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