I'm kicking off the carnival with a couple of posts that get into the spirit of the season. Beverly Hernandez at About Homeschool is celebrating Johnny Appleseed's birthday with some fun ideas.
Elizabeth Foss at Real Learning posts an excellent Autumn Reading List.
Speaking of books, Maureen of the Thrifty Home Schooler links to a big sale on American Schoolhouse Readers.
How do you know if your children are listening and comprehending when you're reading aloud to them? Karen at Wired Wisdom shares a funny family story.
Gena Suarez at Home Where They Belong suggests a way to keep reading from becoming a chore.
When we're excited about sharing our favorite childhood books with our own children, do we push them to read them, or do we wait? Monica at Books Are Our Friends ponders this question.
We homeschoolers know education happens all year round, but autumn still stirs up special back-to-school memories for me. Fresh, clean notebooks, sharp pencils, new crayons...
And moldy bread. Yes, moldy bread. Maureen Whitman writes about the opportunities moldy bread can present when educating at home. Here at the PalmHouse, we're letting some bread mold right now in preparation for a biology lab later this week.
Denise at Let's Play Math! has some creative ideas for encouraging pre-algebra problem solving.
Dana at Principled Discovery is launching a series of posts about how she's teaching her young children. In this one, she shares how she is teaching shape recognition to her three-year-old.
Headmistress, Zookeeper at The Common Room has been kind enough to post lesson plans for Draw, Write, Now, Book 6.
Looking for resources on teaching sign language to babies? Stacy at Teaching Diligently posts plenty.
NerdMom at Nerd Family writes about life skills as curriculum.
Confused by so many curriculum choices? Afraid you're not doing enough? Drowning in resources, some of which just doesn't work for you? Yeah, we've all been there. Doctor Homeschool gives some helpful and practical advice on staying afloat.
Alasandra at Home~Schoolers Rule is appreciating nature right in her own yard. She writes about seeing a hummingbird and shares some related links.
Mama Hen from At a Hen's Pace shares some magazine-worthy moments from her family's homeschool. We should all be recording our own memories like this to read when we're bogged down in those tough days! (Note to self!)
Speaking of tough days, The Thinking Mother has over-scheduled again this fall, but she doesn't let it get her down.
Sometimes the small things let us know we're doing the right thing. At Notes From a Homeschooling Mom, we see that the small thing is a cartwheel.
Karin Kydland posts about counting school hours and wonders if that's a fair way to measure and account for learning in high school.Wow! Elena at My Domestic Church shares about how she both homeschools and works as a medical transcriptionist.
Dani at Bureaucratic Daycare posts an article about "why you need to get out of public education".
Janine at BaptistHomeschooling accentuates the positives about the personalized education of homeschooling.
Henry Cate at Why Homeschool reminds us that homeschooling our children is a way to make a real difference.
Barbara Frank says educrats are fiddling while Rome burns and ignoring what works.
Spunky warns us about the dangers of portable credentialing. I'm glad she's done this research and blogged about it because I was completely unaware of such testing. As a mom of a ninth grader, I'd better pay attention.
Tia at High Desert Hi-Jinks is tired of folks asking her if her children are missing out on something by being homeschooled. She's turning the tables and starting a list of what they won't be missing.
Rebecca T at The Upside Down World has an itch she needs to scratch and wonders why, when she faces challenges with her child, people suggest the solution is to put him in a traditional school.
And finally, wrapping up this fall carnival, Susan at Corn and Oil believes that childhood survives while homeschooling. I agree!
I hope you enjoyed strolling through the carnival, and I'm glad for my only opportunity to celebrate this season. Thanks for celebrating it with me.
If you're looking for some other ways to enjoy autumn, here are some resources:
Autumn Coloring Pages
Autumn projects from TeacherVision
Festive Fall Crafts
Autumn leaves
An autumn reading challenge
Poems about autumn
The next Carnival of Homeschooling will be hosted by HomeSchoolBuzz. Click here for information on how to participate. I continue to thank Henry and Janine Cate of Why Homeschool for creating and maintaining this carnival. Past carnivals can be accessed here.
Happy Fall, y'all! :-)
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