Everybody getting ready for the new school year?

When I first started homeschooling I thought we'd go all year,but then public school ended and all my daughter's little friends came over and now we sort of work with the same schedule the school does. I've got all the curriculum ready to go and we went school supply shopping just because she enjoys it to much,not like we had to get all those notebooks at once. We have Saxon math,we have Simply Grammar,we have a bunch of science experiment kits and a geography program and Igniting your Writing and a book on the history of girls in America (we are doing Herstory instead of History,focusing on things like how people lived rather than wars) also some stuff on the constitution so my daughter can understand all the rights the Bush administration is taking away from her. Oh and a unit study on Greek Mythology because she is really into that stuff right now. And vocabulary too. I forget what else. We do alot of home ec type stuff,I use "living on the Earth" by alicia bay laurel for home ec cuz that book tells you how to do just about everything. Isn't it fun getting all ready to dive back in!

 

I remember when my daughter was in 5th grade, we joined a homeschool group in NH. Sometime during that yr the group had a "Herstory month" where all the girls would pick a famous women to study and at the end of the month they would give an oral presentation to the group about the women they choose.
I remember hearing about
Abigail Adams
Rosa Park
Harriet Tubman
Elizabeth Blackwell
Helen Keller
Pearl S Buck
Susan B Anthony

Home Ec is fun...my daughter was the leader for the local girl scout group cooking class when she was only in 5th grade.

 

Herstory sounds interesting.....I'll have to look into that.....is it a book or just studying history in a different way?

 

Herstory is just looking at history from a woman's point of view,learning about the lives of women in different times,both famous woman and just how the average woman lived. I just read this EXCELLENT book called "women in America:400 years of drudges,dolls,helpmates and heroines" by a woman named Gail Collins. Man did I learn alot! It's easy to forget how many legal discriminations took place against us in the not so distant past and we forget to honor those amazing sisters who fought for all the things we take for granted as our rights. It's odd that the schools and media will talk about the civil rights movement and racial segregation but we don't have access to information about the women's rights movement. Did you know that even in the 1960s women were banned from serving jury duty in southern states because they were viewed as intellectually incompetent or that a woman who wasn't a virgin couldn't legally claim she was raped in North Carolina!!!