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Believing that sweet tea can cure any number of ills, Kris enjoys reading, photography, and blogging about life with her three weird, unsocialized homeschoolers. She's grown to love running and biking, as well, losing nearly 90 pounds and going from morbidly obese couch potato to half-marathon runner. She blogs about her transformation at Eclipsed.

curriculum

Trail Guide to Learning (Curriculum Fair 2012)

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Written by contributor Kris Bales of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers. Children’s ages: 16, 12, and 10 Educational Philosophy Influences: Classical, Charlotte Mason, Eclectic I‘m really excited about the 2012-2013 school year! That’s because we’ll be continuing with curriculum that we found this year – curriculum that we love! Trail Guide to Learning. My older daughter will [...]

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methods & philosophies

Presentations: Assessing Your Student’s Progress

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Written by contributor Kris Bales of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers. Like many homeschool families, we don’t use tests as a measure of our children’s progress very often. The math program that the kids use does regular quizzes and tests, as does the computer-based program that my older daughter uses. For my younger kids, though, testing is [...]

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family time

Guarding Your Marriage

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Written by contributor Kris Bales, of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers So, why am I talking about marriage on a homeschooling blog? Because, in the last couple of years, I’ve seen the marriages of several fellow homeschooling families end in divorce.  Now, don’t misunderstand — I’m not saying that these couples didn’t take steps to guard their [...]

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organization

Kris’s Homeschool Day in the Life (with a 16-, 12-, and 10-year-old)

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Written by contributor Kris of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers I used to think that there wasn’t any such thing as a “typical” homeschool day. However, this year, with no outside classes (currently), we seem to have settled into a fairly predictable routine. Well, we had, anyway. With the start of the new year, my younger two [...]

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organization

Why We Don’t Start School at 8 AM

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Written by contributor Kris of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers You know those homeschooling families that get up before the sun, do their morning chores, have a big hearty breakfast, and start school by 8:00? Yeah, we’re not one of those. Not that there is anything wrong with being one of those families. To be honest, I [...]

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a mom's education

Kris’s Biggest Homeschool Mistake: Teaching in Subject Blocks

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Written by contributor Kris of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers I‘ve been homeschooling my three kids, ages 16, 11, and 10, since 2002. Well, technically, I was only officially homeschooling the oldest way back in 2002. That year was not without its mistakes – the biggest of which was thinking that I had to model our homeschool [...]

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