Carnival of Homeschooling!

Updated to give a HUGE Thank-you to the good Baron at Gates of Vienna. He tidied up my slopping scanning work and fixed up the banner at the top of the post for me. Isn't it lovely?

Welcome to the Carnival, and thanks for reading. I hope you enjoy yourself. It's a huge carnival this week with a divers selection of topics and blogging styles, so there's sure to be something for everyone. Please enjoy, give us a link, and share with your friends.

Tami, over at the eponymously named Tami's Blog, tells us, "I love homeschooling!"
Tami uses a real-life example of why she loves homeschooling.

Mama Squirrel presents Thinking like a history teacher posted at Dewey's Treehouse.

Read about Growing Without Schooling at Why Homeschool
Henry explains that Growing Without Schooling was one of the early magazines on homeschooling and unschooling (I, the DHM, used to read it on mimeographed sheets. That's how old I am). The wealth and information from Growing Without Schooling is being made available on the internet, which is exciting!


Spunky Homeschool writes about An Army of
Homeschoolers I missed the memo, too, but reading this makes me want to shout BOO at somebody, somewhere.


Who: Family School
What: My daughter was a little young for Star Wars and missed some of the finer points
Where? Chewbacca Was a Fuzzy Little Bear

Marcy wrote a post regarding Dr. Milton Friedman's quote about homeschooling,

Friedman: Economic freedom is key - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
Q: I'm sure you're familiar with the home-school movement, which
has arisen over the last 10 years as form of competition to schools.

A: It is. And the fact that it is a form of competition shows how bad
our schools are. Can you think of any other sophisticated product
in which the home-made product is superior to the factory-made
product?


She says he has made a couple of incorrect assumptions about homeschooling, and in this post she will discuss those and try to correct them.

Susan Ryan at Corn and Oil writes Commentary about Diane Flynn Keith’s passions and services along with homeschool resource links in a post titled: Woman of Many Hats


Let's Play Math! writes about Historical Tidbits: The Pharaoh's Treasure
You'll find Tidbits, quotations, and math puzzles from history there.

One of my favorite bloggers, The Carrot Queen, at Introducing the World
shares a post called Homemade Cars and Factory-made Books She says it all happened when s quote from Milton Friedman lead to musings on the nature of education and how it best occurs.

Feeling competitive?
Homeschoolers Can Single Handedly Break Guiness World Record And they can break it just by reading. How cool is that?

Home Where They Belong has more:

Homeschoolers are being called to action to help break a Guiness World Record for the "Most People Reading Aloud Simultaneously in Multiple Locations" using a passage from E.B. White's classic book, "Charlotte's Web."

ANDREA HERMITT presents Early start, early finish, more time for play posted at Notes From A Homeschooling Mom. I'm all for that!

Dana presents American history and the sampler posted at Principled Discovery.
Ben and the Quad- A Lesson In Self Directed Learning

trustthechildren has a:
Story about the holy grail of home schooling. Developing kids who are self directed in their approach to learning.
Knowing you have it when it shows up.

ChristineMM presents My Thoughts About What Homeschooling Parents Do, Opinions of Others, Finding Support and Friendships posted at ChristineMM.

You can have a Christmas Around the World Unit Study from All Info About Home Schooling- A very basic introduction to making a fun unit about Christmas celebrations around the world...easy, fun, and even educational...and it allows you to do your Christmas baking as a subject....

The Imperfect Homeschooler posts about the NYT on Unschooling
No less than The New York Times goes after unschooling, with the help of a reporter who didn't do her homework.

How Many Planets?
Alasandra explains that Pluto has been demoted. She also names the 3 dwarf planets and provides links to resources and lesson plans.

Great Spiral, Mom! from Pass the Torch is from a new homeschooler, and in her fifth week homeschooling, Kelly at Pass the Torch, finds that there are many ways to get it right, in her post, "Great Spiral, Mom".

Katherine at No fighting, no biting (we love that book) shares reading tag and explains that 6 questions about reading can tell a lot about our life-long love of books.

Paul presents How to deal with information overload posted at Paul's Tips.

Getting Science Down to a Science is one of the Memoirs of a HomeschoolerURL of Blog, and that blogger says, "After having some guilt over not using a science curriculum and doing nature study instead, I reflected on how much more science we were doing in our everyday observations than I realized!"

In A Community of Learners Just Enough, and Nothing More explains "Why I love hanging around homeschoolers." I'm sure they love hanging around you, too.

Better Grades with Drugs? by APMFormulators.com shares a short list of dangerous effects Ritalin has on students using them for better grades.

If you sent an entry and do not see it here or find any other errors in this post, please let me know and I'll fix it as soon as possible.

Whoops Postscript: I forgot to include MY entry to this week's Carnival! My entry is not specific to homeschoolers this time. Last year in December I shared several easy crafts, home-made gifts, and frugal seasonal decorating ideas. I'm collecting the links all in one post for easy access. That post is here, and you'll want to keep checking back to see the new links!