Homeschooling a Large Family

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Homeschooling a Large Family

• Organizing a Team of Learners

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Introduction

• School Experiences
• Family
• Education
• Current work

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Logistics - Ways to Do

• Self
• Family
• House
• Schooling Learning
• Community
• Beyond

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Taking care of yourself

• Your needs
• Health
• Physical
• Mental
• Space
• Relationships
• Your wants
• Hobbies Interests
• Your stuff

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Family

• Prioritizing and Goals
• Organizing
• Family Schedules, activities, needs
• Individuals Schedules, activities, needs
• Activities
• House work

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Home / House

• Family Time - Highest Priority
• Chores - realize that homeschooling is hard on
  the house
• Age appropriate - all can contribute
• Participation
• Rituals create unity
• Participation creates belonging / contribution
• It just needs to get done
• Including outsiders
• Venturing beyond the family

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Learning

• Create a rich learning environment
• Everyone learns and models learning
• Provide opportunity
• Shared learning experiences / curriculum
• Inter-age activities
• Let them lead learning
• Let them see you learning

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Educating a crowd

• Multi age activities
• Projects
• Unit studies - Themes
• Adjusting curriculum
• Choose your own interest
• Making resources available
• Teach / model research skills

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Community

• Activities
• Classes
• Church / education / activities
• Neighborhood / hobbies / help - yard work, etc.
• Family / hobbies / help - yard work, etc.
• Friends
• Jobs, internships, volunteer
• Field trips - You be the leader for a group

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Break / questions

• Be back in 10 minutes
• Stretch
• Snack
• Question
• Share

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Beyond

• Beyond Community
• County
• State
• Country
• Beyond Family
• College / training
• Career

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Age Appropriate Chores

• What young children can do
• What big kids can do
• What tweens can do
• What teens can do
• What young adults can do

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Home School Family Resources

• Harvest Homeschool Organizer
• http//www.vhomeschool.net
• Scheduling
• DonnaYoung.org Printables and Resources
• Calendar Hub
• http//calendarhub.com/

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Bulk Food

• Angel Food Ministries
• http//www.angelfoodministries.com/
• Natural Food Coop (Mid-West)
• http//www.mwnaturalfoods.coop/
• Bulk Cooking
• Frozen Assets Readers' Favorites Cook for a Day
  Eat for a Month by Deborah Taylor-Hough
• The Freezer Cooking Manual from 30 Day Gourmet A
  Month of Meals Made Easy by Nanci Slagle

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Problems and Solutions

• Being in two places at once
• The problem of the hobbits-orcs problem
• Appointments?
• Fighting
• Socialization
• Buddy system