Afterschooling/Parenting Approaches

Perceptions of High School

feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:55:26 GMT

This topic is to discuss how (government) high schools function, and what the role of an afterschooling parent might be.

Book: Lighting Their Fires by Rafe Esquith

feeds@yuku.com (captuhura) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:18:53 GMT

I've been meaning to write up my thoughts on Rafe Esquith's new book, Lighting Their Fires. He is the author of Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire and a documentary on his Hobart Shakepseareans. We have a thread on Teach Like Your Hair is On Fire. Rafe's new book is written to the parents. In it, he discusses the need for afterschooling....

Work Box System

feeds@yuku.com (Purplecow7) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:13:49 GMT

http://www.workboxsystem.com/ http://blogshewrote.blogspot.com/2009/03/workbox-system.html http://wayzleyacademy.homeschooljournal.net/2009/07/31/my-workbox-system/

I ran across this idea today. If you google on work box system...

When are our children overscheduled?

feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:47:58 GMT

Research and opinion and experience about number of activities that are optimum.

Calender Tools

feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:38:23 GMT

Store tools to create and maintain your own calenders

Afterschooling peer pressure

feeds@yuku.com (momof2) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

My son now 5 1/2 apparently talks to his friends at school and he has discovered that he is the only one in his group of friends that does "workbooks" at home. Am I already dealing with peer pressure? Five year olds should not be talking, lol.

I've been involved with the school so I have been able to observe when I volunteer. At Kindergarten readiness time, he is the only one that can complete the work and sadly the only one who can write his name. I have also...

Approach: My Father's World

feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:22:48 GMT

My Father's World is a curriculum that tries to unify Charlotte Mason, Classical, Unit Study, and Bible Study. It is quite ambitious and interesting. It provides day by day teaching plans, utilizing living books and classical books and unit studies.

For me, the shoehorning in of the biblical studies, and the high degree of scripting, makes this untenable here, but I can appreciate the effort!

Why do you afterschool?

feeds@yuku.com (Purplecow7) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:55:20 GMT

Because my oldest loved math and cried in 1st grade when he entered public school. Also because while I think most teacher do a great job. I do not beleive that a teacher can teach 26 children to read and that parents need to do it. (current ratio in our ps is 26-1 and that number will grow with budget cuts). There are a lot of benefits in our public school, but the ratio hurt learning.

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When to Take a Break from Learning

feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:29:58 GMT
A HSing board I belong to has had a discussion about taking 'breaks' during government school vacations. I realized that I am in the minority, probably because I was first an afterschooler?

When we afterschool, the breaks are the times when we can really work with our child (as opposed to simply submitting our child to demands of government agents). However, the outcome is that the child is 'working' all the time -- if not for the government, then for us.
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What's So Bad about "Good"

feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:57:54 GMT
A pet peeve that has really emerged over the last few years is the mindless "good" (or "well" or "fine") that is used to evaluate classes, teachers, and schools, or a child's experience in, match with, or benefit of a particular school program.

The problem for me is fundamentally a psychometric problem. What characteristics are used to measure a program or teacher? Who does the assessing? For which child is the assessing done? What type of...

What are your ASing priorities?

feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:54:22 GMT
(Temp: This topic is storage of link to figure out how to organize topics hitting similar themes.)

The following have to do with what types of subjects you prefer to be taught

How to pick a school

What Is Stanford 9

feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:49:36 GMT
A local, Christian HSing group is going to test, as a group, on Stanford 9. They asked whether I wanted Vivian tested as well. They told me that it is "accepted" by schools. (Don't know what that means!) They pointed to BYU Press, where one can buy the test.

I have been trying to figure out what the Grade 4 test looks like. I understand it's 5.5 hours long and it covers things like, "Language Arts". What I'm looking for is real examples of the...

anyone using NIE curriculum from their newpapers?

feeds@yuku.com (piraterose) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:39:05 GMT
I was wondering if anyone has had the chance to take advantage of their newspaper's NIE programs (Newpaper in Education). I work for a newspaper and one of my responsiblities is creating educational tabs that are sent to the local schools. We are now placing these tabs in PDF form on our newspaper website. (In fact we have changed our NIE to stand for News in Education instead of Newspaper). I'm sure other papers are this as well as we are dragged into the digital age. Subjects are...

Nagging

feeds@yuku.com (denpratt) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:47:07 GMT

(How odd that we don't have this here?)

Topic to discuss what is nagging, how to recognize, what is not nagging, how to get around, pros and cons, etc.

Has your ASing focus changed this year?

feeds@yuku.com (captuhura) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:37:57 GMT
The kids have been in school for a quarter or more depending on where you live, have you changed your ASing focus, and if so why?

I haven't really changed my focus for DS5 - math, increase read-tos (FIAR), science.

Curriculum Anonymous

feeds@yuku.com (Purplecow7) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:14:23 GMT
The first step in solving your problem is to admit that you have one. I am a ciriculumnaholic. I love learning and researching about different curriculum's for afterschooling and I have a tendency to buy what I like. I do buy on ebay - but still I buy and then I research more and then I buy more. Now I have to figure out how I can organize them all so I can buy more. I know now it is a sickness.

I am still searching for that ciriculumn in the afterschool box. I...

Inspirational video that reminded me why I afterschool...

feeds@yuku.com (ack26) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:48:33 GMT
My mother sent me this.......

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Weekend Afterschooling?

feeds@yuku.com (mommyatlaw) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:10:53 GMT
Is there anyone here who does the bulk of afterschooling on the weekends? I am simply not succeeding at afterschooling on the weekdays. Although my 5yo and I do read and read-aloud each evenings, we are not getting to the other subjects that I would like to spend time on (such as math and critical thinking skills, maybe even a little unit study on Little House). Here is our schedule:

6 Get ready for work.
6:30-7 Girls get ready and have breakfast.
7:15 Off to...

Afterschooling on Hold.

feeds@yuku.com (mommyatlaw) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:03:45 GMT
Thanks a bunch, Ike. We are in Houston, and the hurricane has taken its toll. I am not complaining - just venting. I am very thankful that our house is in one piece and our only remaining Ike-issue is the lack of electricity. Today is our 12th day without power. My girls' schools are both still dark. We haven't read a book in two weeks (let alone undertaken any other supplementing). If I could just channel Little House on the Prairie, we would be joyfully reading books by candlelight...

The "No Television" Rule

feeds@yuku.com (mommyatlaw) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:42:51 GMT
I grew up in the television generation. Raised largely by a single working mom, my sister and I ate on t.v. trays in front of the Brady Bunch, Happy Days and (my all time favorite) Little House on the Prairie. Though my mom worked, she was a lifelong educator, and my dad was a voracious reader and academic, so, despite the tv, we were avid readers in an education-oriented environment. I do not regret this portion of my upbringing, because it was just one part of the whold picture. But now, I...