Conference-goers say:
- I expected a lot, but the workshops surpassed my greatest hopes.
- I have never been in a workshop that hasn't helped me in some way. I've attended for 11 years.
- I always get reassurance and support along with information.
F Workshops, Friday, 7:15-8:30 PM
Denotes a Connections workshop.
F-1 Better Than Money Can Buy: Creating Your Own Curriculum
Rethinking curriculum choices to make a curriculum that fits your child rather than making your child fit a curriculum. Ways to create a curriculum that's better than a prepackaged, one-size-fits-all version. Including topics important for your child-either now or later in adult life that are not usually covered in conventional schools. Studying subjects at different depths, in non-traditional order with non-traditional resources and spending more time on some than others.
F-2 Economic and Personal Benefits of Parents' Work at Home
Recognizing the economic and personal importance of work done by families (raising and educating children, preparing food, providing shelter and transportation, caring for the sick and elderly, etc.). Choosing ways to expand our family work rather than working primarily for money outside the home. Both widely-recognized and surprising ways in which parents' spending more time at home benefits everyone.
F-3 Growing as a Family
How homeschooling makes parenting easier. Finding joy in parenting. Communicating effectively with kids. Solving recurring problems. Rescuing a day that's gone awry. Identifying our own needs and finding ways to meet them.
F-4 Helping Your Child Learn to Read and Write Without a Purchased Curriculum
Helping kids become lifelong readers by encouraging them to learn to read in their own way and time. Creating an environment that encourages reading and writing. Discovering the connection between letters and sounds. Working with late readers and reluctant writers.
F-5 High Quality, Low Cost Science Equipment
What do we need to set up a basic science lab? Where can we find, scrounge, beg, borrow, or build the tools needed to get started in biology, chemistry, earth science, physics, and astronomy?
F-6 How Homeschooling Prepared Me for Adult Life
How homeschooling prepared the speaker for and got him through both planned events (such as starting a career and becoming a parent) and unexpected (a 3-year recovery from automobile accident). How he thinks his experiences validate the sacrifices his parents made to homeschool him.
F-7 How to Begin Homeschooling
Choosing an approach and planning your homeschool. Complying with the law, including filling out the required form PI-1206 to send to the DPI.
F-8 Living Simply As Homeschoolers: A Discussion
Does homeschooling make living simply easier or more challenging? What are the biggest challenges to living simply? How can we help our children appreciate the value of living simply in our materialistic society?
F-9 Taking the Next Steps in Using Energy Well
Easy and more advanced ways to conserve energy and use it more efficiently. Understanding renewable energy. First steps toward living off the grid. Getting kids involved. Speaker is a homeschooling dad who has worked in renewable energy for 25 years.
F-10 What's a Smart Woman Like You Doing At Home?-
Why being a homeschooling parent is one of the most challenging and satisfying jobs possible. Learning with our children. Pursuing our own special interests without neglecting our family's homeschooling. Finding respect and support in a society that does not value parenting.
F-11 Teen Activities
Join a group of homeschooling teens for icebreakers and other games and informal conversation. An adult coordinator will be present.
F-12
Apples to Apples: A Game of Crazy Comparisons
Are you a fan of this fantastic family card game? Join us in playing this "Mensa Select" "Party Game Of The Year." It takes only a minute to learn and is recommended for ages 9 and up. Limit 40 participants.
F-13
Handmade Pots for Starting Seeds
Have fun making pots out of newspaper that can be planted directly in the ground and that save money, too. Learn how to fill them with seed starting mix and plant seeds in them. All ages welcome.
F-14
Hands-On Physics: Focus on Forces
Learn about forces through an interactive game. Watch paper being made by hand. Explore forces used in paper-making and the connection between forces, work, and machines. Understand how hands-on activities with simple machines have real life applications. Aimed at 12-14 year olds, but all ages welcome. Presenter is from the Paper Discovery Center in Appleton. Limit 50 youth.
F-15 Visit Connections and/or the Curriculum Fair
Learn, play, discover, and share. Shop for curriculums and resources. Talk with exhibitors. Also A-19, B-20, C-21, and D-18.
More Workshops by Time Slot
Saturday, 8:30-9:30 AM: A Workshops
Saturday, 9:50-10:50 AM: B Workshops
Saturday, 1:30-2:30 PM: C Workshops
Saturday, 2:50-3:50 PM: D Workshops
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