Please Help Me Thank My Helpers

I hope many of you will help me out with something. I would like to give gifts to the main admins who can literally spend hours a day helping me, helping you, keeping all this going. I couldn’t keep creating new curriculum if I didn’t have them taking care of “customer” support. This week I will use donations to send them gifts as a thanks for their dedication to this ministry.

You can give to allinonehomeschool@gmail.com through Paypal. You can also find the donate button the About/Donate page on the site. I even moved the donate button to make it easier for you to find. 

Thank you!

One thing this curriculum does not prepare your child for is to enter public school. I want to help people get out of the public school system, not back in.

Public schools do not have to recognize the courses you’ve completed homeschooling. This is most important in high school. Colleges are used to seeing transcripts from unaccredited schools, but your accredited local public high school is not. It is up to the local school whether or not to accept your credits which can put your child behind for graduating.

I don’t want at all to discourage anyone from homeschooling high school. Homeschooling will allow your children to specialize in their areas of interest. They can personalize their course load, find work or internships in their field, and have the time to put in the hours that will get them ahead. It will also keep you close to help maintain a close relationship while they are navigating these important years.

Here’s a video intended to encourage homeschoolers to keep on through high school. (It’s by Lee Binz, my go-to for questions about homeschooling high school.)

Biology, PE, Bible

New courses are popping up. I made a brief PE/health course for the coming year. It’s a weekly health article and a daily workout routine. Bible 2 is now complete. It picks up where Bible 1 left off. The goal is to read completely through the Bible in four years. I also posted the biology course I’m in the middle of working on, so you can see what will be available. The first two quarters are done. It should be “open for business” by summer like the rest of the new high school courses, though it may be ready sooner.

New Courses on the Way

I just posted two courses that are in the works.

British Literature and Algebra 2 are under construction. You can find them in the course list. They should be ready this spring for anyone to begin over the summer.

The plan is for biology and the second half of American history, post Civil War, to be completed for this school year as well. The goal is to have everything ready for use by June.

I have helpers for English, science and history. I’m so grateful for the moms helping out with these courses!

Comprehensive Homeschool Records

Lee Binz has another free book on Kindle today. It’s on keeping comprehensive homeschool records. I am hoping to get a record put together for each of the high school courses that can be used by everyone. It will have the course description. reading list, grading criteria, etc. This isn’t done yet, but I am hoping to get them on Wikis, so that together we can create them and get them as high quality as possible.

Remember, you don’t need a Kindle for this. You can read it online through Amazon.com.

 

 

2014 School Year

Courses are starting to come together for this coming school year. My goal is to have the full schedule ready for use in June.

Spanish 2 was just posted. I’m just waiting on answers for it to be completely ready for use. Someone is working on them.

A new geometry course was posted. That is ready to be used now. This includes a short daily SAT prep exercise.

Foundations is a course I am creating that combines character, critical thinking, study and speaking skills. I have three quarters complete so far.

An English literature course is being worked on. This will include a short daily SAT prep exercise.

Science and history have not been started. I don’t want to announce what they will be in case I change my mind!

 

 

Parent Submitted Courses

People are asking lots of questions about the parent submitted courses. These are not EP courses. These are just parents who put a schedule together for their own kids to use and shared it. I don’t guarantee anything about them. I don’t know their content, difficulty level, etc. I can’t make up tests or answer sheets for them. We only have whatever the parent submits. I am working to make sure there is a full course load each year apart from those, they are just for those who want to use them. I hope everyone understands that.

Updates

There is now a Music Appreciation Course. This is a half credit course like Art Appreciation. You could take both in one year and just call it Art and Music Appreciation for 1 credit. I really like this course and hope you do to.

There is a new parent submitted course: Social Media and You. It’s a half-credit elective course.

Bible 1 has been completed, but we’re still finishing up on Early American History and Spanish 1.