December 21st, 2009
Another homeschool year is over! As it has been a while I thought I would give a quick update on our homeschooling journey for 2009.
About a week or so ago my wife, kids and I finished out sixth year of homeschooling. For those who are new to The PASSION Blog, our oldest daughter started in [...]
October 22nd, 2009
One of the big questions we are asked about homeschooling is “What about socialisation?” Some people seem to be concerned that homeschoolers are locked away and don’t get to spend time with other people or others kids.
In todays post I thought I would share a few ways our kids are “socialised”.
Church – we go to [...]
September 16th, 2009
Another question we are often asked about homeschooling is how much does it cost? That is an interesting one as it can be as cheap or expensive as you like.
As a family we generally spend $150 to $300 per year on each child. This is made up from a variety of books we have purchased [...]
September 4th, 2009
One of the questions we are regularly asked about homeschooling is – How do we know how our kids are going compared to other kids? This is a good question.
In our case most of the homeschooling books we buy have tests in them. For us, this is not so much about seeing how the kids [...]
May 21st, 2009
Hello all,
My wife came across this website that has daily devotions for kids. It is called Kids4truth.com. We read through some of the devotions and they share Biblical and positive messages for kids of school age.
If you would like to check the website out you can visit this link here.
God Bless,
Dave
May 14th, 2009
My wife and I are in our sixth year of homeschooling. When we started out we found it hard to find resources and information to begin our journey of home education. Because of this I thought I would share three resources that have helped us over the years.
1. The WA Education Department
The WA Education [...]
February 2nd, 2009
Another year of homeschooling starts today – our sixth year! My wife has done all the planning and it is all ready to go. Each page for each book is recorded in the “big red book” so all the work from each school day is waiting to be done.
The girls just need to look in [...]