Get Ready for Homeschooling

Posted by Lorren on August 17, 2010

Most of the kids in my neighborhood have already started school for the year. Our church started school Monday; some kids started on the 11th, and some really crazy schools started at the end of July. We’re still on summer vacation until September 8th.

No matter when you’re starting school this year (or if you already have), if you are choosing to homeschool your child, you might want to check out The Old Schoolhouse’s Online Homeschool Expo. It runs from October 4-8, and it should be pretty exciting. There will be guest speakers, door prizes, and fellowship. Best of all, it doesn’t matter where you live, if you can get online, you can attend!

Some of the guest speakers include Zan Tyler, Dr. Jay Wile, Jeannie Fulbright,Carol Barnier, Diana Waring, Todd Wilson, Davis Carman, Kim Kautzer, and Lee Binz. The theme this year is “Celebrate Homeschooling”. If you homeschool, you have a lot to celebrate. The freedom to let your kids have a couple extra weeks of summer while everybody else is already working, for example. The freedom to teach about the Founding Father’s without a lot of progressive propaganda. The freedom to spend time with your kids. The freedom to fit education to your child’s needs and abilities. You probably have your own unique reasons to be thankful to be homeschooling.

Between now and midnight on August 22nd, you can save $5 off the price of the Expo. Right now it’s $19.99. With this, you’ll get more than $200 in free eBooks, plus an mp3 copy of the sessions.

This year, there will be special teen sessions, plus there will be an emphasis on writing. Although my little boy is only going to be working on writing letters this year, my daughter, on the other hand, needs to start writing more. Over the summer, she’s learned that writing can be valuable… I told her that she can keep any money that she makes from designing t-shirts, but she’ll need to know how to write to do that work. No matter what level your child is at, I’m sure that he or she does a lot of writing too.

If you sign up early enough, you’ll be able to attend the preconference shows with Dr. Jay Wile, Jeannie Fulbright, and Kim Kautzer. They will take place on August 24th and September 1st.

If you’re like me and need to Tivo everything to fit it into your busy life, you might prefer the October Expo to Go instead. Tickets for that will be $14.99 if you order this week.

Tickets sell out (at least to the live event), so if you’re interested, then you might want to think about signing up as soon as possible. The Old Schoolhouse is a Christian organization; I like that, although perhaps the leftist visitors that I had at my blog a few weeks ago might not.

In case you didn’t catch the link earlier, you can find out more at Schoolhouseexpo.com. Or click on the picture at the top of this post.

Let your homeschooling friends know too!