Carnival of Homeschooling #85: School Stuff Edition

Welcome to the 85th Carnival of Homeschooling!

Pull up a shopping cart and help us stock up on school supplies and other necessaries for the children...and their teaching parents.

Check your coupons first: any good sales on? At Home With The Kids offers the latest sales and coupon codes related to schooling.

Moving on into the store--are you ready to reorganize your learning space?

Consider A BIG COMFY COUCH...OR TWO

Ann at Holy Experience presents Preparing, with photos of her family's Learning Nook. What a wonderful way to display books!

You could dress up the walls if you get
A WHOLE PACK OF STICK-TACK--OR MAYBE SHE USES PUSH PINS

Mother Auma presents School Supplies: I Hung A Few Things posted at CM, Children and Lots of Grace.

Or go all out with A HAMMER AND NAILS

Denise presents Living with history posted at Let's play math!.

How about A GOOD CD PLAYER?

Lindafay presents The Opera posted at Higher Up and Further In. Whoah--free opera CDs and lessons!

Head over into the BOOK SECTION
(How can you homeschool without books?)

Bending the Twigs presents "The Dumbing-Down of the Summer Reading List," "a discussion of how public schools are bumping literary classics off summer required reading lists in favor of recently-published books of dubious value and why students should read 'great works.'"

Mommy Brain presents Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, a Christian's perspective on the final Harry Potter book.

The Daily Planet presents It All Started With A Girl: An Anne Frank Biography Essay. "We did a WWII study. During that study, we each got to pick a specific topic to talk on. I chose Anne Frank. Here is an essay about her life."

No fighting, no biting! presents Smart Babies: why reading books is so much better for little ones, apparently all those "smart baby" videos actually retard language development.

And you could pick up A HOMESCHOOLING MAGAZINE (this store has everything)

April presents How to Read Curriculum Reviews posted at Lunablog. "I wrote a summary of the factors I take into consideration when reading user reviews of homeschool curriculum. I've learned them by noticing my own tendencies, and those of other homeschoolers, and they help me when I'm trying to decide how helpful a particular review is to my own situation. "

APMFormulators presents Trivium Pillar, discussing how "The Trivium method of learning possesses eminent degree of excelling in any subject for students. "

DeputyHeadmistress presents The Common Room: The Seven Liberal Arts and a Classical Education- a Parents' Review article cont. posted at The Common Room.

Dewey's Treehouse presents Back-to-Homeschool Week: Curriculum. Mama Squirrel quotes T.S. Eliot: "We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time."

Silvia presents What Do These Things Have in Common? Choice. posted at Po Moyemu--In My Opinion.

Judy Aron presents Paying Kids To Stay In School posted at Consent Of The Governed.

Nissa Gadbois presents Making Charlotte Simple for Our Family: Part 2 - Getting Organised posted at Renaissance Academy.

Janine at Why Homeschool explores problems with Teaching to the Test, and lessons she learned in testing her daughter while homeschooling.


Don't forget to fill up a pencil case with the smaller items:

PENS

Jimmy Atkinson presents 150 Useful, Educational, and Inspirational Blogs for Aspiring Writers posted at OEDb: Online Education Database.

ERASERS
Erasing myths and misconceptions

Alasandra presents Top Myths About Homeschooling: "7 Myths perpetuated by non homeschoolers and my response to them."

Tricia at HilltopHomeschool presents I Can Do It All...The Myth. "I believe in learning right along with my children. If I don’t know how to do it, then we look it up. If I can’t figure it out even after looking it up, we ask for help." This is Tricia's first carnival submission, and she did a super job.

Andrea presents a video post, People who don't know... criticize, posted at Notes From A Homeschooling Mom.

A HIGHLIGHTER

HowToMe presents How to Teach your Visual Learner to Study (3 of 4) posted at HowToMe.

Very important: A BIG STACK OF PRINTER PAPER

Waldorf Our Way presents English As A Second, Or First, Language: "an online resource for students learning English as a second language is also handy for primary grammar review."

Day by Day Homeschooling presents Free Grammar Workbooks.


Consider some LAB EQUIPMENT

Karen presents Thomas Review: How to Think Like a Scientist posted at The Thomas Institute.

All Info About Home Schooling presents They Blinded Them From Science.


Or a NATURE NOTEBOOK AND MAGNIFYING GLASS

Stephanie presents Queen Anne's Lace, posted at Stop the Ride!.


A BIG BINDER FOR THE HIGH SCHOOLERS

Jocelyn of Lothlorien presents Young Entrepreneurs. "Take a minute from your busy life and see how a few homeschooler-teens have begun their own businesses and how they're seceeding. Come and relax. Have a laugh and share in the excitement of these 'Young Entrepreneurs.'"

Living In Grace presents plans for the coming year's highschool at home in Homeschool Open House 2007.


SOMETHING HI-TECH FOR THE COLLEGE STUDENT

Ted Reimers presents Must have Tech Gadgets for Students, posted at College Blog.

Scott presents 18 Overlooked Things Everyone Should Bring to College, posted at College and Finance. (Earplugs, flip-flops, and more.)

AN APPOINTMENT BOOK

ChristineMM presents Nailing Down the Extracurriculars posted at The Thinking Mother.

And maybe a COFFEEMAKER
(A present for Mom...)

Summer presents Learn Something New Every Day posted at Wired For Noise.

Cindy at Life Without School asks and gives her personal answer to the question: Should we martyr ourselves to motherhood? in Womanhood and Homeschooling.

Competent homeschool moms find themselves much in demand. Do you Know When to Say NO? Check out the further adventures of Wonder Woman at Mother-Lode.

Life Nurturing Education presents "Idols and Effigies." Renae says, "This post is about struggling with the stereotypes home school moms face from others and from themselves. "

[Updated to fix link] Karen's History Project presents My Favorite Homeschool Subject: "A few ramblings of a long time homeschool mom on how homeschooling has benefitted me personally."


(Of course, some of us aren't into shopping at all)

Broken Homeschool presents Hang On To Your Hats—It’s Not Back To School Time For Homeschool Families.

And don't forget: Memories are made of the things we DO, not the things we BUY, posted at Millionaire Mommy Next Door.


Ready for the checkout? Pick up A PACK OF BUBBLE GUM.

Melissa presents "From the Archives: Bubble Gum Math" at The Lilting House.


AND WHILE YOU'RE WAITING IN LINE, YOU CAN FLIP THROUGH YOUR MAGAZINE:

Dana at Principled Discovery presents Building a Reflective Homeschool, The Grace of a Hippo

Jacque Dixon at Seeking Rest in the Ancient Paths presents Cookies - A Moment in the Day of A Homeschool Mom. "Here I am sitting at the computer at 3:30 in the morning again... my quiet time. Really. What do I do in times like this? Well, as I walked in here after picking up the Little Raspberry Pixie Muffin, I noticed the rabbit in the cage in the office (read: room where the computers are). That led me to notice the dried grass and clover all over... on the floor, in the boxes of books next to the table the cage is setting on. My thoughts: I love homeschooling. I love having all of these fabulous children!"

KA-CHING. Your total is...

Everything's free!

(Now you know this is just a story.)

Thanks to everyone who participated this week, and to the Cates for their support! Next week's Carnival of Homeschooling will be hosted by HomeschoolBuzz.com. You can submit your posts to the next edition of Carnival of Homeschooling using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on the blog carnival index page.

UPDATE: Since you have to wait in the car for the rest of your family, you get yet another chance to look at your magazine (or, in this case, the posts that got missed or caught in the spam box):

Scraps of Home presents Go Your Own Way. "Being a "typical" homeschooler really means being "a-typical."

Aduladi' & Co. discuss "The Unspoken Homeschool Sin."

Small World presents Back to Homeschool Week.

And Pajama Mommy Community considers Plagiarism Checking.