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Fun-Schooling Fashion, Arts, and Culture | October Journals on Sale Now!!!

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This month, we’re talking about Fun-Schooling Fashion, Arts, and Culture.

Scroll to the bottom to find the sales!

Homeschooling fashion design is a subject many Fun-Schoolers are interested in

Fashion

We have four journals about homeschooling Fashion. Students will have plenty of chances to design their own clothing in all of these journals. For students who are really serious about fashion design, consider the PDF versions so they can have more blank forms to fill in.

  • The World Wide Fashion School– travel the world and learn about fashion and culture in over a dozen countries
  • Time Travel History – Fashion Dreams– Explore how fashion changed from 1800 to 2030.
  • Design a Dress– Create 75 different outfits!
  • DIY Fashion Design– Our most flexible fashion journal. Full of blank pages to make notes and design items. Students also love to use this as a portfolio by pasting in photos of fashion items they’ve sewn. (currently out of print, any of our other “DIY journals” are the same inside

Find them at https://www.funschooling.com/homeschooling-with-fashion

Arts

There is no wrong way to Fun-School the Arts!

We incorporate art into all of our journals and think art is a critical piece to learning. For our discussion it is visual art, music, theater, and dance- I also include writers as artists & creators!

We have several arts journals, here are some of our most popular-

Culture

Easily travel the world and other cultures from the comfort of your own home

Our journals make it easy to introduce your child to people and cultures around the world. We have dozens of options to help your family do just that. Here are a few of them-

  • Book of Dance– 40 types of modern and traditional dance worldwide.
  • World Tour– Students study an animal, instrument, and country for each letter of the alphabet.
  • Adventures Around the World– Learn about life, people, nature, inventions, historic events, cool places and unique attributes of dozens of different countries.
  • Travel Dreams: 30 Fascinating Cities–  This book leads you on a scavenger hunt though each city as you imagine planning your trip to each place.

Join our private Facebook Group to check out a Peek Inside of 12 of this month’s theme journals-

ON SALE

Paperbacks & E-Books – 15_% off

PDFs – 50% off

BOGO

We have several codes for Buy One Get one FREE through October 12th. Find all the details here

What questions do you have about Fun-Schooling fashion, culture, and the arts?

What resources are your students (or you) using alongside these journals?

Help other moms out and let us know in the comments.

Why We Love Fun-Schooling

/ Sarah Janisse Brown / Leave a comment

I thought I just chime in and share why I love fun-schooling so much.

When my kids were little, I was trying to do a lot of Charlotte Mason learning, some Montessori schooling at home, classical learning and a lot of Unschooling. It was exhausting! Our whole life style revolved around me being a worn out teacher-mom.

I have so many children with such diverse needs and passions, I wanted to give each one their own path. I gathered tons of different curriculum from conventions and it was overwhelming to create all these custom plans for each child!

And so I had the idea to make the Fun-Schooling journals when my oldest child was 16. I created ONE do-it-yourself homeschooling journal that guides each unique child through the experience of studying their passion, their hobby or their career goals – while still focusing on all the required subjects!

The first DIY journal could be adapted to any child age 7-17. I created a different cover for each child and put the first Journal on Amazon with a bunch of different covers, and bought them from Amazon for my own kids. I was just using Amazon for print-on-demand book making for my own kids. But I had the books up for sale just in case other families wanted a copy.

So when I created the first DIY homeschool journal I was expecting my 10th child and I really just wanted to take a break for six weeks so I could focus on the new baby.

So I thought I’d make a six week curriculum where the kids use 10 pages a day, without much help from me. I would build myself into the book!

The idea is that they would get a stack of library books and a bunch of documentaries about anything they were interested in, and they were to use those resources along with the journal while getting in all those academics.

My idea was that they could do everything independently with one journal and I would just have to add a math curriculum.

It worked great! After the kids finish their first DIY journal they asked for themed journals. One wanted to study horses. One wanted to focus on travel and fashion. One wanted Minecraft theme. One wanted to focus on dogs. Another was really into nature. My son Joe was crazy about space. I said yes to my kids and we started collaborating on making Fun-Schooling journals together- based on each of my kids’ passions.

The whole idea was an amazing success. My kids started earning royalties and were doing their homeschooling independently!

One thing I really love about Fun-Schooling is that it frees me up to be mom, and it gave me time to enjoy my preschooler and baby.

So instead of spending my day struggling over their schoolwork and trying to make sure that everything is organized in a really boring way… I started focusing more on pursuing my passions and reading to my kids more.

I thought it would be great to be an example to my kids of the learning I want to see in them. Down the rabbit trail I go… I started making Mom-School journals that look a lot like their DIY Fun-Schooling journals!

Not only did the kids love Fun-Schooling – I do too.

When we first started Fun-Schooling, I had 10 kids. Before Fun-Schooling, our homeschooling days were really stressful and I always felt like I wasn’t doing enough, yet I was going non-stop.

Our home just became so much more peaceful, full of wonder, and just more harmonious with Fun-Schooling. Best of all – lots of other families started discovering Fun-Schooling too!

Within two years of making the first DIY journal we sold so many Fun-Schooling books that we were able to do things we never thought possible.

We were able to support ourselves as volunteers in Ukraine, and eventually we were able to adopt five more kids because we had the extra income and I didn’t feel like I was overwhelmed by the ten kids I already had.

As more of my kids became teenagers, we helped them to focus on pursuing their careers, instead of focusing on high school credits, and now five of our kids are adults and have started their own successful businesses and are able to be independent.

Fun-Schooling made such a huge difference in our every day life and empowered us to really become who we were meant to be!

It wasn’t just the kids pursuing their passions.

I also was able to pursue mine, and somehow I found time in the past 8 years to create, collaborate and publish over 400 books!

Fun-Schooling for High School Credit

/ Sarah Janisse Brown / 7 Comments

Parents often feel overwhelmed homeschooling high school and assigning credits. Remember, homeschoolers have a lot of flexibility. You don’t have to “school at home.” Your teen is preparing to launch into the world and doesn’t need to sit in a classroom with boring textbooks to thrive! Below is guidance on credits and some options for planning the high school years.

Remember-

Each country and state has different legal requirements. These suggestions should meet the requirements of most places. Please verify requirements where you live.

The HSLDA or your local homeschool support organization are good resources. Check to see if your area requires detailed record-keeping, transcripts, portfolios, testing, evaluation by a certified teacher, or any other records. Some states require in-depth and detailed transcripts while others are very laid back.

HIGH SCHOOL CREDITS

Most states require 15-25 credits for High School Graduation. For example:

Language Arts/English: 4 credits
Math: 3 credits
Science: 3 credits
Social Studies (U..S History): 1 credit
Social Studies (Any other Social Studies): 1 credit
Electives (physical education, home economics, foreign language, music, etc): 9 credits

Total: 21 credits

College-bound students will need a more specific record of courses based on their desired University requirements. The University admissions department will provide those details.

For example, specific science credits needed might be: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, & a Science Elective.
Social Studies might be: U.S. History, World History, American Government .5/Economics .5, Social Studies elective.

College-bound students will also need grades assigned to each completed credit.
Some areas require a more detailed description of courses taken. This can be anything from a short sentence to an entire portfolio of completed work. This is why it’s important to understand your regional laws.

How much work equals one credit?

In most places is 120 hours = 1 credit.
This is time working on journals as well as projects, field trips, interviews, etc. An easy way to track time is for your teen to write the start and end times when they work in a journal. This will also give you an idea of how much time is spent on that subject.

If you don’t have to track time, Fun-Schoolers usually give shorter single-subject journals ½ credit, longer single-subject journals 1 credit, and completed core journals 3-5 credits depending on their size. (click Page 2 to learn about selecting journals and assigning credits with Fun-Schooling)

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