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#526 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:44 pm
Subject: QOTW: Networking vividbibliom...
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How much does networking with other homeschoolers help you in your own homeschooling adventure?

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#525 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Dec 7, 2009 12:44 pm
Subject: QOTW: To Be Considered Educated vividbibliom...
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QOTW: What knowledge is essential for a person to be considered educated?

I know it's a broad question!--and I can't wait to see what everyone writes for their thoughts on this.

==Rebecca Miller

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/abc_usa/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Freedom_to_Teach_and_Learn/

***Notes: Don't forget your weekly downloads***
http://www.homeschoolestore.com/catalog/index.php New book weekly
http://www.homeschoolradioshows.com/
http://www.kiddierecords.com/2006/index.htm Kiddie Records
http://science.nasa.gov/ Space (not really anything free; just remember to check out the site. Winking smiley emoticon

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http://podcast.parelli.com/Parelli%20Natural%20Horsemanship/Podcast/Podcast.html Horsmanship

If you are aware of any more sites that have free weekly (or daily) downloads, please share it with me. I'd

love to pass it along to more homeschoolers.

==Rebecca

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#524 From: RIhomeschool@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue Dec 1, 2009 12:44 pm
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#523 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:50 pm
Subject: QOTW: Learning Experience ("ah-ha" moment) vividbibliom...
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What is the earliest positive learning experience you can remember with your child/ren? You're first "ah-ha" (they got it; or it worked)

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For me, I would have to say reading. (I think because it was it was an "ah-ha" moment for all of us.) I think the coolest moment that we have had was when my kids started to read, and I sat back and thought, "If we can do this, then we can do it all." It was "ah-ha" they got it; and "ah-ha" I can do this. That was 10 years ago, and my kids are in the 10th grade now still plugging away!

Rebecca

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P.S. I went to the store to buy a pre-made turkey and meal so that I wouldn't have to cook (because this year my kids were begging for a "holiday" meal), but I just couldn't get over the prices! My husband's income has dropped half this year, and I just couldn't justify the cost. I ended up buying a turkey to make. But to keep things simple for myself, I used boxed potatoes, canned cranberry, canned green beans, canned gravy, and boxed stuffing. All of which took less than 30 minutes to put together when the turkey was near complete. My kids and husband said it was a great meal! (I think they were just in the holiday mood.) Next year, back to hamburgers and hotdogs! Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

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#522 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:51 pm
Subject: QOTW: Thanksgiving vividbibliom...
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QOTW: What are you doing this year to celebrate Thanksgiving

Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving.

I'm happy to report that my son's surgery last Monday seems to have gone well. Last year we spent Thanksgiving going crazy trying to control the pain from knee surgery (football injury) and it was two weeks before he was up and walking. This Thanksgiving, we are happy that he is not having a lot of post-op pain from his shoulder surgery (football again!); and the discomfort that he is having is rather manageable through pain medication. We are thankful about this.

So it's that time of year where we try to shift our focus on being thankful for things. This being said...What are you doing this year to celebrate Thanksgiving (regardless to what you believe in or celebrate).

(I never think to include my own answers to the QOTW in the email that I send out. Here's the difficulty that I run into. I send the QOTW out to almost 200 groups. I then receive almost 200 responses back, as I have my groups set to individual mail. Once I send out the QOTW, my internet provider shuts me down for sending out emails for a 24 hour period--I can only send out emails directly through each Yahoo! group....which would take me forever to do one by one. By the next day, I am busy approving messages/members and forget to send in my own responses. But today, I remember to include it in the original email!)

For us, the holidays are a no fuss. My husband works a lot so that I can stay home with the kids...usually six days a week (sometimes seven). When holidays would approach, and he would have a day to spend with us, I would be in the kitchen cook. If I wasn't in the kitchen cooking, I was in there cleaning up. The day that he would be off, I would really see him only at the meal times. So several years ago, my husband decided that a holiday was a holiday for all of us. No cooking or cleaning on that day. We cook hotdogs and hamburgers the day before and we eat them the next day. We generally spend the day watching movies or TV shows together, while eating popcorn in between. Sometimes family will stop by on their way to the homes of others. Both of our parents (and my maternal grandparents) and siblings live either in our county, or in the next county, so they can be seen quite easily or frequently through out the year. We do not go out on holidays, as my husband drives for a living and hates to travel on his day off; plus he wants to spend the time with us since he doesn't see the kids a lot. Add to this that we live with my parents (to help take care of them), and my husband it when my parents go to my sister's and we have some "just the four of us" in the house time.

This year, however, my kids have been grumbling that they would like a turkey (a Thanksgiving dinner in general). My grandfather (90 years old) had a major heart attack a couple of weeks ago and my husband doesn't think he will live for another year; although until this heart attack, my grandfather put me to shame: walked at least 5 miles a day and still did push ups and sit ups! So my husband would like to go and visit my family at my sister's this year "for only an hour." He has also said that a Thanksgiving dinner would be okay--just as long as I ordered one and didn't spend the morning cooking it--woo! hoo! So I guess that is how our Thanksgiving will be this year.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Rebecca Miller

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#521 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Nov 9, 2009 4:32 am
Subject: QOTW: Safety vividbibliom...
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What do you do to keep your children safe? (Take this anyway that you wish)

Please note that I will not be posting a QOTW on Monday, November 16, as my son will be going in for shoulder surgery. QOTW should resume as normal on Monday, November 23.

--Rebecca Miller

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#520 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Nov 2, 2009 2:57 pm
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Originally, I had curriculum questions set for this week, but I think I am going to go in a different direction and put out a family question:

Babysitter: Where and how did you find your current babysitter? What are some things that you look for in a babysitter?

The scheduled QOTW had been about curriculum and curriculum resources. I'll leave these on here in case your are past the babysitting situation and would like to respond to this one instead? If so, please change the subject title so that others can follow the topic thread.

Boxed Curriculum: What do you do when the set assignments seem overwhelming?

--or--

Make your own curriculum: What are some of the resources you use/have used when creating a curriculum for your child? Which ones did you find to be the most useful?

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#519 From: RIhomeschool@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun Nov 1, 2009 12:46 pm
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#518 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Sun Oct 25, 2009 9:36 pm
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I forgot to mention that I started a national online support group that is all-inclusive for those homeschooling and suffering from chronic illnesses. When I sent out a notice last week about the groups that I was aware of, someone mentioned that they were interested in an all-inclusive group. I don't know if there is one, so I started one.

If you're interested, the link is:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homeschool_with_chronic_illness_and_pain/

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#517 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Sun Oct 25, 2009 9:13 pm
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I am not going to be able to post the QOTW tomorrow, so I am sending it out today.

This is not to start a debate as to whether Halloween is okay or not; nor is to debate that doing an alternative to Halloween is right or wrong.

--Rebecca

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What are your kids (and yourself if dressing up) wearing October 31st? If not celebrating what do you do that night to avoid the the whole thing? Or do you do an alternative to dressing up?

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#516 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:56 pm
Subject: QOTW: Flu Season and Cabin Fever vividbibliom...
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Good morning everyone. It's time for our next QOTW. This week's scheduled QOTW was relatively close to the question of last week, so I am going to change it to something different.

Flu Season and Cabin Fever: How are you coping with the flu season? What do you do with the kids whenever you have to deal with cabin fever?

Last week's QOTW was a great success in many of the groups. There were various discussions, and lead off topics, and, well, just some great thought that went into many of the responses that came out. (Too bad there not just one large forum where all of these great minds could have came together and expressed these thoughts...I could only imagine how wonderful that would have been!) I wish that I had the room to share each and every response with all with you, but I don't. So I did the next best thing that I could think of: I put together some various responses into a PDF file and am attaching them to this so that you can read them at your leisure, should you be interested to do so.

And before I go, I would also like to share with you two groups that I have been made aware of that may be of interest for some of our members that suffer from chronic illnesses and are trying to continue with homeschooling:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homeschoolingmomswithfibro/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/encouragement4mom/

As usual, I hope you all have a great homeschooling week.

--Rebecca Miller

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MissingTheClassroom.pdf

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#515 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:25 am
Subject: QOTW: Missing the Classroom vividbibliom...
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Since homeschoolers are not in a classroom they don't have to compete to get attention from a teacher. Will this hurt them in the future?

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#514 From: "Maria" <mlbucchino@...>
Date: Tue Oct 6, 2009 2:45 pm
Subject: Re:QOTW: Interruptions weluvlearning
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Well here we let the machine answer the phone when we are doing school work, 1:1 instruction.

Illness - we take it slower , sometimes take a day off. If it is me, the instructor sick, we just go slower. If it is student sick - it depends how sick. Often they can still do some work here or there.

Maria

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#513 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Oct 5, 2009 1:52 pm
Subject: QOTW: Interruptions vividbibliom...
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How do you cope with interruptions?--short (telephone interruptions, "things that just come up", etc.) and/or long term interruptions (illnesses, etc.)

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#512 From: "Mary" <mommy2gr8kids03@...>
Date: Fri Oct 2, 2009 12:45 am
Subject: Re: New to this group! Looking for friends!! :) mommy2gr8kids03
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I emailed you!  I hope you got it.  Where is the group science project going to
be and when, do you know?  I would love to get together very soon!  The kids are
anxious for friends to play with.

--- In RIhomeschool@yahoogroups.com, attown@... wrote:
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> We have recess every Wednesday and we are meeting at the end of October for a
group Science Project!!? It is the human body, everyone brings in food to share
also.
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> We meet the last Friday of every month to either present a science project or
a civics project we call Passport to the World.? November passport the country
is England.
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> My family is in Coventry and I have a nine year old, two eight year olds and a
one year old!? We would love to meet you guys somewhere to play.
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> Tara
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> From: Mary <mommy2gr8kids03@...>
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> Subject: [RIhomeschool] New to this group! Looking for friends!! :)
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> Hello!  We are located in West Warwick and have finished our first "offical"
on
> the records month of homeschooling.  We have a 6 year old boy doing first
grade,
> and a 4 year old boy working at a kindergarten level.  We also have a 1 year
old
> little girl.  Since my children have never been "to" school, they don't have
any
> steady friends and we're hoping to make some, so if anyone is near this area
or
> has some little tikes around the same age that like fun, get in touch with
us!!
> Have a productive and creative day everyone!!
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> P.S.  I would love to know what field trips, if any, are coming up soon.
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#511 From: RIhomeschool@yahoogroups.com
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#510 From: attown@...
Date: Thu Oct 1, 2009 11:02 am
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We have recess every Wednesday and we are meeting at the end of October for a group Science Project!! It is the human body, everyone brings in food to share also.

We meet the last Friday of every month to either present a science project or a civics project we call Passport to the World. November passport the country is England.

My family is in Coventry and I have a nine year old, two eight year olds and a one year old! We would love to meet you guys somewhere to play.

;)

Tara

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Hello! We are located in West Warwick and have finished our first "offical" on the records month of homeschooling. We have a 6 year old boy doing first grade, and a 4 year old boy working at a kindergarten level. We also have a 1 year old little girl. Since my children have never been "to" school, they don't have any steady friends and we're hoping to make some, so if anyone is near this area or has some little tikes around the same age that like fun, get in touch with us!! Have a productive and creative day everyone!!
P.S. I would love to know what field trips, if any, are coming up soon.
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#509 From: "Mary" <mommy2gr8kids03@...>
Date: Thu Oct 1, 2009 12:19 am
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Hello!  We are located in West Warwick and have finished our first "offical" on
the records month of homeschooling.  We have a 6 year old boy doing first grade,
and a 4 year old boy working at a kindergarten level.  We also have a 1 year old
little girl.  Since my children have never been "to" school, they don't have any
steady friends and we're hoping to make some, so if anyone is near this area or
has some little tikes around the same age that like fun, get in touch with us!! 
Have a productive and creative day everyone!!

P.S.  I would love to know what field trips, if any, are coming up soon.

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#508 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:44 pm
Subject: QOTW: Teaching Multiple Grades vividbibliom...
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How do you keep little ones busy while the big guys school?

This is probably one of the questions that is asked the most. Unfortunately, I'm not much on ideas in this area, as both of my kids are in the same grade, so they are working of things at the same time.

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#507 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:47 pm
Subject: QOTW: Things that Make You Laugh vividbibliom...
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What is the worst thing that your kids have done where you actually had to walk out of the room or turn your back to keep from busting out laughing in front of them. (You can have a few if you want).

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#506 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:43 pm
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I am forwarding this for Amy. Sometimes there are difficulties getting things to post on Yahoo!.

-=-Rebecca

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> What do you believe is the hardest thing that you have had to say to your child ? Were you or your child able to use this as a life lesson?
>
The hardest thing I have ever had to tell my son is that the new baby, hs brother, when born wasn't going to make it. That they wouldn't be able to play together. That he wouldn't be able to teach him all the things he wanted him to know. Our baby lived 7 days and we included our son in everything. We wanted him to have a chance to know his brother. he also had the chance to say good bye. I was wrong though. My son does play with his brother. He often includes his angel, Asher, in his playtime.

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#505 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:48 pm
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What do you believe is the hardest thing that you have had to say to your child ? Were you or your child able to use this as a life lesson?

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#504 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Sep 7, 2009 2:24 pm
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Do you practice minimal compliance? What are some of the things you do to limit the information you give to school officials?

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#503 From: RIhomeschool@yahoogroups.com
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#502 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:28 pm
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This was supposed to be the first year that we did not homeschool all year round. I had big plans of organizing things in my local groups over the summer and my kids were looking forward to a larger break than the (smaller) ones we take during the school year; but I ended up tutoring/homeschooling a boy for the summer that was a friend of my kids. Instead of giving my kids a break, they participated and earned some extra credits also. The week after I finished tutoring/homeschooling for the summer, my kids had a week of JROTC leadership training at the high school. I thought that the week with them at camp would be enough time to get things ready for this this school year to begin--uh, wrong! We all took last week off (with the exception of their sport practices each evening), which, of course as Murphy's law would have it, the majority of my time was spent with my oldest son suffering from increased nausea, vomiting and diarrhea progressing as each of day of the "off week" continued--and still into this morning he is suffering. (I have tried the BRAT diet for him: bananas, rice, apples and toast. But none of that is working. Sometimes the medication for nausea and vomiting cannot even stay down. Pedialyte drink is not working. I welcome other ideas to help him.) A doctor's visit on Friday at least confirmed that he does not have Swine Flu, but it is still undetermined what is causing this. The heavy dose of antibiotic does not seem to be helping. He is getting very depressed that he is losing his starting position on the football team as he is missing so many days of practice--nothing worse than dealing with a sick and depressed teenager! LOL! So am I ready for the school year to begin? Absolutely NOT! I don't have our curriculum ready, nor half of it planned! Some is still to arrive as I ordered late. I have never been this disorganized in any of our previous 9 years of homeschooling. I think we need another week off--at a minimum. I had hoped to try to to follow the public school calendar this year as my kids are participating in a class there, but we are already behind it. Oh, well, now it's time to practice what I preach to others and just take a step back, breath and regroup! LOL!

--Rebecca Miller

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#501 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:50 am
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So parents are you ready for your kids to go back to school? Or do you homeschool all year around?

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#500 From: "Maria" <mlbucchino@...>
Date: Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:25 pm
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I think this would be a great idea

Maria

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#499 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:01 pm
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"What changes have you made to your approach to
school/parenting this year and why?"

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A member in NCarolinaHomeschool group popped this question off to me this morning. I usually put out the questions on Sunday or Monday, but there is still some time in this week to put this one out to the groups and start the ball rolling. Great question!

And please remember that this is a voluntary participation thing. If you are uncomfortable and wish to remain lurking in the group...that's quite alright; but we hope that will not be the case.

In some of the groups, the members have started answering the example questions that I sent out yesterday. It's been interesting to read about the different bed time routines and the ideas of "how to cover it all" (as well as encouraging messages of not to panic about trying to cover it all!) Great to see some conversation going on in the groups!

Because I am overseeing (either alone or co-moderating) all 50-something statewide groups of Mr. Bissman (the owner of this group), please let me know which group you are in when you contact me. It would be easier for me if you would include the group name in the subject line, such as: FloridaHomeschool QOTW Suggestion, so that I can find your email should it end up in my spam or junk mail box. My email address is: millerhomeschool@.... I have made a folder on my computer where I'll store all of the suggestions that are sent to me, and then pop them out to the groups each week.

I'm glad that this has been a receptive idea. Feel free to share these questions with your local groups if you would like; I don't mind at all.

--Rebecca

P.S. Should you want to pop out an answer to either (or both) of the previous example questions, that would be great; but please start a new thread for the others to follow that subject line so that our members can follow the topics easier.

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#498 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:39 am
Subject: RE: QOTW (Volunatary Participation) vividbibliom...
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Dear Members,

I know that for awhile our group was experiencing difficulty with a lot of spam. As a result, many of our members ran for cover and went to "no mail" status and some even unsubscribed from the group. Our group, for the most part, has remained rather quiet.

In several of the groups that I moderate we do a question of the week (QOTW). The questions are varied and range from homeschooling/kids, parenting and some get to know you types of questions. I like to jumble up the questions with different focuses because I find that members that may be a little shy to post a homeschooling question feel more comfortable answering a parent or getting to know you type of question. And then once the ice is broken, conversation in the groups start to flow a little more freely.

Some examples of QOTW for the last two weeks have been:

Covering Everything: How do you make sure you're covering "everything"? Or do you even worry about it?

Bedtime Routines for the kids: Does your child have a bedtime routine? What is it? Do they tend to adhere to it? Who is responsible for putting your kids to bed?

Anyway, I thought that this might be good to start with the new school year just around the corner.

Please let me know what you think.

Respectfully,

Rebecca Miller

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#497 From: "Rebecca Miller" <millerhomeschool@...>
Date: Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:24 pm
Subject: Free Homeschool Resource Toolbar vividbibliom...
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You can download a homeschool resource toolbar for free here: http://HomeschoolResource.OurToolbar.com/

Everything is categorized and it updates automatically! Installation takes only 3 seconds and doesn't require any of your personal info!

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This posted to the group Florida-Homeschool, but I thought that I would pass it on to those that might be interested. I did not use it, because I am not that computer literate to remove something after I install it if I don't want it any more, but many others are much more knowledgeable than I am to do this.

Rebecca Miller, Moderator

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Used_Homeschooling_Curriculum

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