This giveaway has ended; thanks for your interest!
Welcome to today’s giveaway–sponsored by Great Homeschool Conventions:
Details from Kim of Great Homeschool:
“Great Homeschool Conventions offers 4 conventions throughout the United States featuring amazing speakers, fun family events and a huge Homeschool Curriculum exhibit hall.
This year’s events will take place in Texas (February), South Carolina (March), Ohio (April) and California (June).
Great Homeschool Conventions offers so many choices for families — and you get to choose what works for you!! There’s also an optional children’s program and a special track for teens–real faith for the real world.”
“This year’s speakers include Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, M.D., Rebecca Keissling, Heidi St. John, Michael Gurian, Cathy Duffy and Jim Weiss.
In addition, Great Homeschool Conventions will have activities for parents, children and the whole family, such as:
- 100s of Information-Packed Workshops, including Homeschooling 101, Special Needs and Gifted, Parenting, and Classical Education specialty tracks
- Special session Thursday evening with Holocaust Survivors, Dr. Inge Auerbacher (CA) or Dr. Henry Fenichel (OH) – sponsored by Samaritan Ministries
- Family Comedy Night with Bob Smiley – sponsored by Sonlight
- An evening of inspiration for all homeschooling families with Jacob and Kristine Barnett (OH, CA) – sponsored by WORLD News Group
- Plus much, much more!”
One Simple Homeschool reader will win this package worth more than $100:
- A Family Pass to the Winner’s Choice of 2015 Conventions
- Up to four tickets to FAMILY COMEDY NIGHT WITH BOB SMILEY
- Tickets to the REAL FAITH FOR THE REAL WORLD TEEN TRACK
- Grand Finale tickets (up to 4)
The Grand Finale for the Texas event is general seating tickets to see Dr. Benjamin Carson, for the SouthEast event it’s Benjamin Franklin LIVE! performance, and the Midwest and California conferences have Jacob Barnett and his mother, Christine Barnett speaking.
You can choose from conventions in:
- Fort Worth, Texas, from Feb. 12 – Feb. 14 (next week!)
- Greenville, South Carolina, from March 12-March 14
- Cincinnati, Ohio, from April 9 – April 11
- Ontario, California, from June 18 – June 20
How to Win
This giveaway has ended; thanks for your interest!
To be entered for a chance to win, leave a comment on this post, answering the question: What sort of boost does your homeschool need most right now?
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This giveaway has ended, and the winner is Carrie, who wrote, “I really could use some insight about how to better teach my son with dyslexia and two other kids with ADHD!”
Share your homeschool day in the life
i need a boost or inspiration in where to start with homeschooling my 6th grade son who I’m pulling from public school next year. Do I go hybrid? What curriculum? Do it all on my own? Co-op? I don’t know??? I’ve got it down for my 1st grader but 6th grade seems daunting.
I would love to explore more curriculum and different homeschool philosophies. I would like to add another level of complexity next year, and I could use some fresh ideas for how to do that.
I really need a boost to let me know that everything is going to be okay. I need a boost to let me know that learning disabilities do not define a child and that doing kindergarten math at 11 is better than doing no math at all. I really want to go to the special needs sessions at the conference in Ft Worth because I feel pretty overwhelmed and need to hear from veteran moms that it’s going to be okay. Plus, at this point, I need some fresh ideas and inspiration to help motivate my children and myself.
I need a boost in where to even start with homeschooling my twins next year. They are in kindergarten in public school now and my husband and I have decided to homeschool next school year! We are very excited and plan on attending the homeschool convention in our city.
I am needing encouragement during these high school years! We are truly blessed to homeschool and would love to hear how others are moving along with middle and high school children. Thank you for sharing this wonderful giveaway!
WE need help with the writing process. My son is so creative and he has lots of great story ideas, but his favorite subject is not writing. I want to figure out ways to encourage his creativity and get it on paper at the same time.
I’d like to look at some math curriculum I’ve been researching. Also I’d love to hear the mother and son from the “The Spark” speak in Ohio.
I really need a boost away from the routine, we are ready to try something different for our soon to be 8th grader and our soon to be 4th grader. Inspiration! I would love to see some new and different options and hear some encouraging words!
I like Great Homeschool Conventions on Facebook.
I like Simple Homeschool and Great Homeschool Conventions on facebook.
I need a boost to get started! I need lots of direction to get my daughter started with kindergarten in the fall.
Our home school needs a motivation boost. I feel so busy with the baby and house work, I never want to follow through on the fun school plans.
I liked the Great Homeschool Convention page and the Simple Homeschool page on facebook.
We need a boost in history & geography. We love Story of the World & Little Passports, but could use a fun boost to bring it all together with maps. My children enjoy historical fiction, so I’m searching for ways to bring the history alive & tie it all together in a fun way for them.
I need some new creative ideas and some help with math issues.
I had already liked Great Homeschool Conventions and Simple Homeschool.
We need a boost in our homeschooling as this is our very first year to start. I have a kinder at home who we will be homeschooling full time in the fall. I need a boost as where to begin and going to a convention like this would steer me in the right direction.
I need encouragement and renewed motivation. We have homeschooled for 5 years, but this past year, our family moved, and then faced major illness. I still struggle to get into a good routine after our life changes, to capture the hearts of my kids rather than just focus on subject content, and remember why I am not dropping them off at the local public school.
I need a boost in starting to homeschool my two children. They are currently going to a Montessori School in town and my daughter is graduating from their program. Although my daughter have thrived there, I don’t feel my son is getting what he needs from their program. My daughter is going into the 7th grade and my son is going into the 4th grade next year.
Our family could use some inspiration for sure! Last year was our first year homeschooling and I just had a 1st grader. This year we added our daughter in with Kindergarten. I have a preschooler and a baby on the way…due 1 month before the school year starts next fall! I am already feeling the anxieties and pressures of doing it all and doing it well! Some encouragement would be a great thing!
I have wanted to try attending one of these conferences for a couple of years now, but it would be quite a trip. Being around lots of other home schooling families and hearing great speakers in itself would be a boost. We’ve home schooled for 5 years now, and the past 2 years have begun making a shift in the way we think about it. We’re taking more of a classical approach now and I’ve let go of a lot of the worry that we aren’t doing ‘enough.’ The boost I could use right now is just new ideas and to hear stories of others.
I’ve liked both on FB already! Thanks!
I need more organization/ structure
My son is currently in a school that you teach two days and the other two days he’s in class with a teacher and other students. I need a boost of knowing its possible for me to do strickly homeschooling (I’m a single mother) with the help of conventions like this and that there is hope for children with auditory processing delays to retain the info they are given.
We need an extra kick of fun and creativity…. I’ve found that we have fallen into a “rut” and the girls aren’t having as much fun as when we first started our homeschooling journey.
I am needing a boost and encouragement with homeschooling a 7th grader who is very resistant, does not love to learn and also with some of the day in day out logistics. This is our 2nd year of homeschooling and trying to make a huge change/shift from the paradigm of “attending” school and what that looks like is huge and overwhelming.
Thank you!