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What You Should Know About Making Lab In The House?

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Water, straw, plastik bag can be materials at your lab in the house

Not all homeschool family have access to standardized science laboratory. Many of them bought their own laboratory equipment, but there are also families that decide to not doing science experiment that makes them spent a lot of money to buy laboratory equipment. Some frugal family conduct science experiment that doesn’t need expensive tools. The last condition is the best choice for a not so rich homeschooling family.
So, how to manage a lab in the house?

 

How Do Our Daily Life As Homeschool Family In Remote Area?

homeschooling in remote area
Our homeschooling is the same as you imagine. We have daily routines, schedule, curriculum, and we are not unschooling. My son is an ordinary boy, he like to play online games, like to play with others, and sometimes he refuses to learn. I am also a work at home mom, so I am a busy mom too. And I don’t want to being around my son all day long, he need his private time. Does it sounds like your condition? Yes, of course. Homeschooling in remote area doesn’t mean we have different style than you that living in urban area. What is the point of this article?

 

Competition, Do They Need It?

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Competition! This is one big question: does our child need competition? Yes, he does. But, if we talk about competition in common way, my son won’t have the chance to competition in this remote area.
Why children need to compete?
To compete is to strive against another or others to win or to gain superiority. Since he was born, a man faced competition. For example, competition against his sibling to gain parent’s attention, competition with father to go to the bathroom in the morning, etc. Competition is a way to survive. So, why do we afraid of children’s competition? If children can compete in a good way, they can get what they want to have, and also they will build good relationship with others. The adverse consequences of competition is hostility and fraud. We must teach children to avoid those consequences.

 

Frugal Homeschooling For Visual-Kinesthetic Learner

visual kinesthetic learner
What if your child is a visual-kinesthetic learner? Can you do frugal homeschooling?
I do! Since my son was still 7 years old, I knew that he is a visual and kinesthetic learner. I should set our learning that suite with him so learning will be fun. As a kinesthetic learner, he should move around while learning, and learning should begin with sports, like running, jumping, push up, sit up, etc. By doing this, his brain will be more ready to learn.

 

How To Teach Two Subjects At Once?

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Do you like crafting with your child?
By crafting you can make models, such as paper plane is model of aeromodelling. Models facilitate the child to understand something. Paper plane will facilitate child to understand aeromodelling.
At remote area where we live, houses made of wood. People here have a special design for the house, so their house strong enough to hold furnitures, motorcycle, and other goods. We learn about it by observing, photographing house that was built, and crafting a wooden house!

 

 

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