• Jan. 12, 2008 - Tuesday Night Homeschool Support Group!
PPEA MEETING
Finishing the Race...Tying Up Your Loose Ends!
WOW, Can you believe Christmas is over? If you’re like many of us, you’re ready to get started on the second half of your school year. This is the time when we see how far we’ve come and how far we have to go. Mark your calendars for Tuesday, January 8th as we gear up to “finish up”!
* Dennis Apple one of our premiere testers here in the Pinellas County area will share how to prepare your child for their year end testing.
* Vicki Bueller, Veteran homeschool mom, certified teacher and year end Evaluator will share what an evaluation looks like, and how it differs from testing.
*Linda Wooldridge, our very own PPEA Orientation Facilitator will be sharing about portfolio’s and....,
*Kim Coley, our FPEA District 5 Supervisor will be sharing how the FPEA Florida State Homeschool Convention can make a difference in your homeschool and become the HIGHLIGHT of your year!
This amazing group of professionals are going to help you finish your race with GUSTO! This night is set aside just for YOU! Homeschooling moms have the most important job ever. Remember....We’re better TOGETHER!
 Kim, did an EXCELLENT job of sharing the "why's" behind attending convention.
1- Motivates you as you see 20,000 other Florida Homeschoolers come to fill up!
2- Informs you as you take a variety of workshops!
3- Inspires you as you take time to talk with veterans who have been there and done that!
4- Saves you money because you get to look and touch curriculum before buying. Many times you get to stand at the booth and ask the author questions. These are perks that simply looking on-line or at a catalog would offer.
For more information on how to register please visit the FPEA WEBSITE
 Dennis, informed us about all the options available options available to us for year end testing as well as giving tips to get the most out of your testing experience.
1- Make sure you schedule your child for a time when you know they do their best. If don't have an earlybird then don't schedule for 8 or 9am.
2- Make sure they have a good breakfast. (Mary's tip: protein, fat and carbs are a good choice over cold cereal)
3- Let your child know this is more an evaluation of "you" the parent then "he" the student. (it's the truth anyway )
4- Pull out your portfolio, your books, your pictures and your papers and lightly review what you've done a few days prior. (Mary's tip)
 Vicky Bueller had us all ROLLING in laughter as she talked about the difference between year end evaluations and testing as well as what "NOT" to do on Eval day!
1- Testing tells you how your child is doing against the norms of other children. Whereas, an Evaluation tells you how YOUR child is doing, period!
2- You want to bring these things to an Evaluation:
a- Your child. (no joke, parents have been known to arrange childcare and just bring their childs work with them. However, an evaluator needs to talk with the child to gain a well rounded understanding of where they are.
b- Enough work that she/he can know the type of progress your child has made. (in Florida we only have to have a few sheets in our portfolio legally, but for an evaluation you will want to give them a bit more information)
c- Have the work grouped together. It steals time away from evaluating if your evaluator has to put papers together to make sense.
d- Bring pictures of field trips and large projects that you've made.
 Before Lisa shared about Portfolio's I brought up "3" examples of my own from over the years. It brought laughter, but I hope it also brought a sense of peace and relief to moms who have this picture of perfection stuck in their heads.
Portfolio #1 (which I am holding in the picture) Was a good year. Every piece of work had a page protector, paperwork was chronological. It was very pretty. I felt good about myself. (Young and Niave)
Portfolio #2 The kids are getting older and I'm adding the # of children to my family, so I go from a 3-ring notebook w/ page protectors to a simple lesson planner.
Portfolio #3 I now have four children, (two of them were between 1 & 3 years old) I heard Neoka Apple share the idea and so I decided to use it. It's the big bankers box. Everything is a mess, but it's all in there. As my children finished their work I would throw it in the box. It wasn't pretty, BUT...., it WAS legal!
Remember, it's better to have messy and have it done, then beautiful and not complete! Having a portfolio IS the LAW!
 Linda Wooldridge, speaks about Portfolio's! She was Hilarious and made a serious subject lots of FUN! Here are some tips!
For a record of your educational activities:
1- You can photocopy the table of contents in the book or guide that your using and then simply date each assignment as you do them.
2- You can write them into a planner, but if your going to use "acronym" make sure you put a KEY at the front of your book. For instance, if you use Math-U-See and you want to write: MUS-2-5, that's fine as long as you have the Key written out near the front. MUS=Math U See
For your log of books being read:
1- You can use your receipts the libraries are now giving out, BUT make sure you photocopy it because the originals are carbons and the ink quickly fades.
2- For those that check out lots of books, but don't read every single one.., you can simply photocopy your receipt and then highlight the ones read.
For Sample of your child's work:
1- Make sure you display your childs passing grades. This builds their esteem. They will not want to look through through portfolio's years from now if you have their poorest work samples.
2- Purchase a rubber DATE stamp. Let your child date stamp their work each day. |
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