Tips For New Home School Families

For those of you who just started to home school and feel over whelmed with it all here is a few tips that might help you on your journey.

1. For those of you who just pulled your child from public school or Private to homeschool I would suggest you take some time off and readjust it is ok to take a few days some people take longer than that just depends on the family. Get to know your child's learning style it will help you when you’re ready to get back to learning.. Just because it works for other families it may not work for yours.

2. Learning is fun help your kids by allowing them to pick a subject they want to learn and make it as fun as you can children pick up on everything they learn try using projects are documentaries to help I also make a lot of field trips and my kids love it. For those of you who just pulled your child from public school or Private to homeschool I would suggest you take some time off and readjust it will be alright to take a few days some people need longer than that just depends on the family Get to know your child's learning style it will help you when you’re ready to get back to learning.

3.First thing you will want to do is set your own pace to how you want to home school what works for other may not work for you. Over the course of time your home school strategies will change and you will be able to figure what works best for you and your family never compare your family home school experience to someone else each person has their own unique experience on learning.

4.Be willing to try new things if something is not working try another way to learn sometimes a certain curriculum or book might not work and that is ok your kids might like the hands on approach try going on an outing with the kids. You should utilize the Library they have a lot of resources for homeschoolers and they host events my kids live and breathe the library.

5.This is your School you do not need to rush to a schedule you can teach your kids at home in pajamas you can go to the park at learn whatever you do it is your own style and don't feel pressure to try and turn your house in to a classroom make it your own.

6. Find other home school families or groups this helps with support and encouragement it is always nice to join in a homeschool group they are perfect for field trips, meetups, and parties, new friends.

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National Historic landmarks from Around The World

For those of you who love adventures and travel, here is a list of National Historic landmarks to visit on your journey. You will find links under each picture that will take you to all the Historic landmarks in that state or country. 1 The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. For more Landmarks of New York check out this link here is a List of 113 National Historic land marks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Historic_Landmarks_in_New_York_ City 2. The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. Named after the engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Here is a List of tourist attraction to visit in Pairs,France. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tourist_attractions_in_Paris 3. Monument to Minin and Pozharsky is a bronze statue on Red Square in Moscow, Russia

Plant Experiments Your Kids Will Love To Try

This is for all you parents and kids who are indoors and love to do plant experiments this will be perfect for you to try at home .I wanted to round up some of the projects that me and my children have worked on and had fun with my kids love working with plants they enjoy all their is to know about plant and their life cycles. 1 .DIY Own Glow Flowers http://www.funathomewithkids.com/2013/08/flower-science-experiment-for-kids-diy.html This was a fun and exciting project the kids had so much fun with watching the flowers glow. 2. Balloon Green House http://www.education.com/activity/article/balloon-greenhouse/ This will be a fun project for the little ones to learn how green house work. 3. Color Flower Changing Experiment http://paintcutpaste.com/color-changing-carnations/ This will teach your children how water travel threw different parts of the flower as you can see visually beautiful and fun to learn.

Fruit And Veggies Used As Art Very Fun Kids Will Love

For this summer, you can kick up notch and have some fun creating art with your raw fruits and vegetables your kids will have a great time. Tell them to make a collage on their plate create a face with the fruits and veggies of your choice. Just have fun creating with your fruits and veggies, this will be a great way to get the kids to eat there fruits are veggies while playing with them. Here is some great examples I have found enjoy and have fun creating and remember to take pics to show everybody the great time you had creating your art and sculptors. You can find this cool guy on this blog, http://girlydesignblog.com/2014/05/08/cute-art-made-from-fruit/ she has great ideas that are made of fruit sculptors the kids will love to try design This is cute and looks simple found on this blog http://bogdanasblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/cu-chef-de-viata.html Here is a fun and easy veggie project the kids will have fun making I found this one on this link http://thedeco

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