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Our Homeschool Beginning

It was in the mid-year of 2009 when we started homeschooling. I used the SSRW curriculum to teach my children how to read and write. I added some textbooks I bought from a local bookstore for teaching them other subjects such as maths and science. I was an independent homeschooler then, so most of the materials I used were mostly low cost if not free. There are a wide variety of homeschool resource sites I visit to get printables, teaching aids, classroom activities, videos, e-books' games and everything I need in homeschooling my 3 daughters. We used a vacant room in my mother in laws house as our very first classroom. We had 3 set of tables and chairs for each child, an old desktop PC and a white board. We had a 5 feet, 4 layer bookshelf full of children's books that served as our library. I posted the letters of the alphabet on the wall. We had a mini-bullettin board where they could hang their best works. It was a small room but it served its purpose.

Garcia Homeschoolers' EDCON Experience

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                        Educator’s Convention for Homeschoolers                 School of Tomorrow Philippines has been conducting the Educator’s Convention for decades, but it was only last year when they required homeschool parents to attend the convention. At first, I wasn’t happy with the news because it meant an added expense to our budget. Then, I realized that, as homeschooling parents, attending conventions is necessary for improving our knowledge and skills.         My husband and I help each other in educating our children, and attending the convention have been beneficial for us in so many ways. One reason is that we met fellow homeschool parents who share the same delights and struggles in homeschooling. They have provided us new ways of doing things and different perspectives. They’ve shared their teaching techniques, disciplinary strateg...

Feb. 10, 2015 - Report on Job Clippings

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Choose a newspaper clipping and stick them on a piece of paper. Write one paragraph explaining why you chose those jobs. Alithea    I chose these clippings because they seem interesting and I think they are okay. I think that they seem fun but I have to do a lot of work. I think that I will have  cool tools if I'm a dentist. It might not be too bad cutting long clothes if I cut well. And being a nurse isn't very bad. If I do much the doctor won't get tired. I like all these jobs because they won't make me lazy. 88% Andrea      This is my report about my first report about the newspaper advertisement I chose. I don't think that I wrote it properly. I have slanting handwriting but I don't think it was too bad. The ad I chose was about cooking. I think I made it interesting enough. I erased a bit of it because I didn't really like that part. It was a fun and easy report and I enjoyed it a bit. I just hope it's as interesting to ...

Les Miserables Report

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The movie was based on Victor Hugo's novel.  The story takes place in France in the early 1800s.  I like it because it has a good story and interesting characters. It also gave me an idea of what it was like for the poor people of France back then.  Some of the characters are Jean Valjean, Fantine, Cosette, Marius, the Thenardiers and Javert. Jean Valjean used to be a prisoner, he broke his parole and changed his name and became the mayor of a town. Fantine worked in one of his factories. Fantine had a daughter named Cosette whom she had left in the care of the Thenardiers until she could send for her. She was paying them to look after Cosette, but she did not know they were using her as a maid. One day she was fired by the foreman and she became very poor. After that, she got into a fight with one man and Javert a policeman wanted to arrest her. Jean Valjean stopped him and took Fantine to a doctor when she became ill. Fantine got worse and died , but  Jean promised...

CAAt Activities for 1st Week of December 2014 - Khan Academy

alithea31 41  minutes +5,063  points Multiply by tens 8 minutes 2 questions Basic division 2 minutes 6 questions Multiplying 1-digit numbers 2 minutes 2 questions View all 23 activities andreav.garcia 23  minutes +5,450  points Add within 100: Level 1 5 minutes 10 questions Solving problems with line plots 1 4 minutes 6 questions Subtract within 100: Level 1 4 minutes 8 questions View all 18 activities cassiev.garcia 17  minutes +3,675  points Repeated addition 4 minutes 6 questions Comparing numbers within 1000 4 minutes 6 questions Estimating lengths 3 minutes 7 questions View all 21 activities

CAAt Activities for the Week

Your students  Ordered by minutes spent this week View the full report cassiev.garcia 31  minutes +6,925  points Making totals in different ways within 10 5 minutes 13 questions Attributes of shapes 5 minutes 6 questions Composing shapes 3 minutes 6 questions View all 30 activities andreav.garcia 26  minutes +18,440  points Hundreds, tens, and ones 10 minutes 9 questions Skip-counting by 5s 4 minutes 4 questions Skip-counting by 10s 3 minutes 5 questions View all 19 activities alithea31 0  minutes +0  points Encourage alithea31 and  view the full report

Khan Academy Journal 2014-11-09

andreav.garcia 61  minutes +18,225  points Counting money (U.S.) 14 minutes 6 questions Adding and subtracting on the number line word problems 7 minutes 8 questions Repeated addition 5 minutes 6 questions View all 37 activities cassiev.garcia 53  minutes +19,500  points Measuring lengths with different units 6 minutes 7 questions Addition using groups of 10: Level 2 6 minutes 8 questions Counting out 1-20 objects 5 minutes 8 questions View all 32 activities alithea31 18  minutes +2,250  points Telling time without labels 4 minutes 6 questions Comparing lengths 3 minutes 2 questions Groups of tens 3 minutes 7 questions View all 15 activities