Se7en At School… The Collection…

As promised… The complete collection of all our Homeschool Posts. If you are looking for our “Homeschool Questions: Asked and Answered” then just scroll down to the bottom of this page. If you have a question then you may find the answer there and if you don’t see your particular homeschool question then feel free to contact us and ask. I have a list of questions that I am slowly whittling away and I will add your question to the list!!!

• What Do My Older Kids Do During School?
• What Do My Little Kids Do During School?
• The Meeting and a School Refresher.
• Se7en Things I Would Do if I had to Start Homeschooling Over.
• Se7en Things I wish I had known about Homeschooling.
• Se7en’s School Tour
• Se7en Easy Things That Make School Fun.
• Se7en’s School Day – A Photo Tour.
• Se7en’s Good Intentions for School.
• Se7en Great Links I will Use for School This Year.
• Se7en Organize School Starting With the Dresser.
• Se7en’s School To Do List.
• Se7en’s Sonlight School Schedule… A School Day in the Life of Se7en.
• Our Goals for Se7en Sonlight Years.
• Preparing for School… Se7en Tips for a Year with Sonlight.
• Organizing School and Craft Stuff in se7en Layers…
• Se7en of the Best Books About HomeSchooling.

• Se7en Things that Made School More Fun This Year…
• The River Cottage Family CookBook.
• Alex Toys: Games to Go…
• The Hifi and Friends Part Two…
• The Hi Fi and Friends…
• Se7en Do Photography
• Se7en Are Not in School.
• Se7en of the Best Craft Blogs.

• Se7en Do Geography – Heaps of Resources…
• Se7en South African Book Resources.
• World Map in Se7en Steps…
• Virtual Voyage: Se7en Steps to Getting Going…
• Virtual Voyage – We are off on a trip to Africa.
• Se7en’s Virtual Voyage and the Didgeridoo.
• Virtual Voyage: The Great Australian Round-Up.
• Se7en World Cup Faces and Flags,,, A Round Up of Kids Activities.
• Se7en’s Advent: Christmas Around the World.

• The Mailbox and Letter Writing with Kids.
• Se7en’s Teeny Tiny Toothpick Puppet Shows.
• Se7en Learning to Read Resources…
• Se7en Do Poetry, Packed with Poetry Resources for Kids.
• Se7en Do School Journals…
• Se7en of the Best Dragon Books.
• Se7en of the Best Shakespeare Goodies for Kids.
• Se7en of the Best Book Sites for Kids.
• Se7en of the Best Word Games.

• Se7en Experiments with a Red Cabbage… Litmus Fun!!!
• National Science Week and the MTN Science Center.
• Se7en’s Seaside Science… with Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom…
• Se7en Natural Factual Links…
• Se7en Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow…
• Save Our Seas Shark Center.
• Se7en’s Edible Cell Biology.
• Se7en Science Experiments: Bugs. Birds and Beasts…
• Se7en Science Experiments: Very Simple Edible Science.
• Se7en Science Experiments: Lights, Lines and Lenses.
• Se7en Sources of Scientific Experimental Inspiration.
• Se7en Keep Up With School Science Experiments.
• Se7en Easy Science Observation Ideas and Activities.
• Se7en Easy Science NoteBook Ideas.
• How Se7en Do Their Nature Notebooks…
• Se7en Ideas To Get Your Nature NoteBooks Started…
• Se7en Do Actual Factual Scientific Observations.
• Se7en Stories To Inspire Young Naturalists.
• Se7en of the Best Science Notebook Inspirations…
• The Nature Corner…

1. Se7en’s Escher Fun: Pictures, Polygons and Paper Kaleidoscopes…
2. Se7en and a Salvador Dali Celebration…
3. The Usborne Art Treasury – A Review.
4. Se7en of the Best Art Inspirations.

Se7en of the Best Art Appreciation Resources for Kids.

5. Se7en of the Best Art History Resources for Kids.

1. Se7en Bits and Bobs for Beginner Bloggers.
2. Se7en and Problogger’s 31 Days to a Better Blog Part 1.
3. Se7en and Problogger’s 31 Days to a Better Blog Part 2.
4. Se7en and Problogger’s 31 Days to a Better Blog Part 3.
5. Se7en and Problogger’s 31 Days to a Better Blog Part 4.
6. Se7en and Problogger’s 31 Days to a Better Blog Part 5 and Moving On…
7. Se7en’s Problogger’s Se7en Link Challenge.

I am always happy to answer homeschool questions, browse through this section and see if I have answered your question before and if I haven’t then go ahead and contact us and ask away!!! I think because we live homeschooling I sometimes forget that we could post on a topic!!! When you do ask questions it reminds me to post on stuff that is our everyday!!!

• Se7en Sonlight Questions Asked and Answered.

1. When And How Do YOu Read ALl The Read-A-Louds?
2. Core 2 seems much harder than Core 1, Do I Pack It Away And Go Back To Core 1?
3. This would Be My First Year With Sonlight, Should I Buy a Newcomer PAckage or a Core?
4. What Math Program Do You Use?
5. Can You Do Bilingual School Using Sonlight?
6. When Do Your Kids Start Doing Language Arts on Their Own?
7. How and When Do You Get Started With Sonlight?
8. The Cost of Shipping to South Africa is Horrendous, What do you do About it?

• Se7en’s Response to “How to Talk to Others About HomeSchooling”…
1. I could never do that
2. Do they learn anything?
3. When are you going to stop?
4. Will they be able to go to college?
5. My kids really need friends.
6. So your children will finish school really young?
7. What about sport?
8. Are you qualified?
• Se7en More HomeSchool Questions…
1. When do you prepare for school and how long does it take?
2. What do you do about unscheduled interruptions and changes in routine?
3. What are the best workbooks for pre-schoolers?
4. You use a Sonlight, an American Curriculum, how do you make it relevant to South Africa?
5. How long will you Homeschool, what about finishing school and matric?
6. What do you do about learning a Second Language?
7. How do you schedule one on one time for school with all your kids?
8. If you didn’t use Sonlight what would you use?
• Se7en Socialization Questions Homeschoolers Ask and Get Asked…
  1. Will Homeschooled kids have the necessary Communication Skills for Life?
  2. What about loneliness?
  3. What do you do if you have a terribly shy child?
  4. What about the kid that needs other kids around them to survive?
  5. Can Homeschool Kids get enough Social Interaction?
  6. Homeschool Mom’s Are so Over protective they can’t seem to let go of their kids.
  7. I feel so Isolated as a Home School Mom – I spend all my days with Small Kids and I need Adult Time too.

• Se7en More Homeschool Questions, Especially in South Africa.
1. What made you decide to homeschool?
2. What About Family and Friends?
3. How did we get started?
4. What Does Homeschooling look Like for us?
5. Are there local support groups?
6. What about the Department of Education?
7. Is there legal support?
• Se7en Common Home School Questions that HomeSchoolers Ask…
  1. How do I keep little ones busy while the big guys school?
  2. How do we read through all the books?
  3. How do I cope with interruptions?
  4. How do I get them to do things they don’t want to do?
  5. What do you do when the set assignments seem overwhelming?
  6. What happens if you have bought a product that you thought would be fabulous and it just doesn’t work for you?
  7. How do you do everything?