From the category archives:

sports

Every homeschooler I know can tell you what they are doing for math without so much as taking a breath before sharing.  However, when you start talking about health or physical education (gym), there are often a few more pauses before they say what they are doing.  It’s not as concrete of an area.
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“But what about socialization?”
I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard that question, don’t you? It’s one of the most commonly asked questions related to homeschooling, and in my mind one of the easiest to answer.
Our boys have participated in Cub Scouts, AWANA, Sunday School, Classical Conversations, ice skating lessons, [...]

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A few months ago I wrote about our oldest son and his new swim class. Our 8 week class ended last week. On Wednesday he approached the Swim Team Coach and expressed his interest in joining the team. One of the questions he was asked was “What school do you go to?”, [...]

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For the last month my boys have been taking swim lessons. We missed a couple of summers between trips and moving, so they were a little behind the curve ball. DS#1, we’ll call him J, is almost 10 (Thanksgiving Day!). At the end of summer 2006 he had “graduated” level 3 swimming [...]

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Do you remember years ago, when you were in elementary school, and you had to do the Fitness Challenge? Oh my, I still have nightmares when I see a rope hanging from a ceiling, and my palms sweat just at the mention of a flexed arm hang. I rocked at the jump rope though. [...]

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As we sat glued to our television set on Friday August 8th my children didn’t realize that they were being schooled. After all, we weren’t watching a video on math or a history lesson on World War II or even watching Schoolhouse Rock. Instead we sat mesmerized by the opening ceremonies of the [...]

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