Chaperone Says Horny Dads Weren't the Reason Teen Was Booted From Prom (Gawker)
A week after a 17-year-old girl made international news with her account of being k icked out of her homeschool prom because some dads at the event thought her outfit could arouse "impure thoughts," a chaperone for the dance has come forward to claim there's more to the story.
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Civic Hall season tickets on sale today – Palladium-Item
Civic Hall season tickets on sale todayPalladium-ItemThe start time for all of the shows has been moved up to 7:30 p.m. To match Richmond Symphony Orchestra and Richmond Civic Theatre. In addition to the Proudly Presenting Series, Civic Hall encourages schools and homeschool families to reserve seats for …
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Homeschool Curriculum 2013
Questions and Answers
I have a three year old daughter that I am wanting to start homeschooling this fall. I also babysit three other children whose ages range in 1 1/2-2 1/2. As today's society is, they would like for their children to be able to start Kindergarten and know "everything!" I am just curious if anybody has ever homeschooled their children while at the same time trying to teach someone else's child? Of if you have just homeschooled your preschooler what kind of schedule did you follow? Did you study by subject or just themes? Thanks for any help!
BTW- I was homeschooledl from Kindergarten up so I am very familiar with homeschooling. And I have taught preschool for over two years at Preschool centers so I am also familiar with that. I was just curious how other people did it and especially if you babysit other people's children, too! Thanks!
Lots of people homeschool their preschoolers. It used to not be considered "homeschooling", since practically everyone used to teach their own at home until school-age. Now so many consider daycare to be the norm, those who don't send their little ones to daycare or preschool or whatever you want to call it, homeschool their little ones.
There are lots of ways to do it. Some people use a format of themes. Some focus on one letter a week (searching for "letter of the week" should help you find some free resources for this).
For a while we used random themes (careers such as fire fighters or police, colors, various animals, plants, different countries, different time periods such as knights and castles, mummies in Egypt, or whatever struck my fancy)–they are so little that anything you cover will be new and educational to them.
For a while, we didn't use themes; then we just made sure that we went to the library and storytimes regularly, and did "educational things" such as planting seeds and caring for them as they grew. Taking nature walks or visiting the zoo and looking at what was around us. Talking about the places we visited and the people we saw (about their jobs and such). Doing lots of crafts–coloring, cutting and pasting, painting, and so on. Talking about letters and words around us; work on the sounds of letters and reading simple words. Watching educational videos such as the Leap Frog or "Between the Lions" series to learn reading skills. Sing songs such as the alphabet song or we found songs for the days of the week and months of the year. But mostly, read to the child a lot.
As for a schedule, we only did formal sit-down lessons 2 or 3 times a week for 20 minutes at most at a time when they were this little. Go by your child. You want your child to enjoy it and not be turned off by learning. But you can do lots of activities that they will just think are fun. And you don't really need a schedule.
I taught mine while watching other people's children. If you keep it something that they can all enjoy, it will work much better. (And you'll find that the smaller ones will learn a lot as you go along–more than you thought they would.)
Oh p.s I went into home schooling during the second week of 7th grade.
ALL of my friends are either starting 9th grade or plain and simple going back to school and now I am depressed because I want to be sooo badly but I have tried talking to my mom and asking her over and over and me going to public school is NOT an option but i miss my friends, I miss getting to go to school sitting at the desks learning with EVERYONE. I miss it. I don't really hate being homeschooled but, i really don't want to be but once again nothing I can do about that.i just am tired of beng the one who is still at home during the day while everyone else is having the best days of their life in higschool while I am sitting at home being taught by a fucking computer!!! I miss my friends and when they get home I am gonna get a phone call of how awesome it was and talking about how much fun they had and they know I hate that cause I am left out. What should I do??
Count your blessings. Most public school kids are idiots. Most homeschool kids are pretty smart.
Be one of those.
I DID.
It was my first day of junior year, it looks like it'll be a good year. From my past questions, that psycho kid is not in my health class and everybody in my Chem class (we have to sit with our class at lunch) wanted to sit with me so now I have to alternate tables (I'm so popular). I wore the brown peasant top and I'll stop sharing my personal life now.
Oh and I met a new boy and we had a nice conversation! I think I'm starting to like him.
We homeschool.
We won't start until after Labor day.
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