Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs writing project is now on its 4th year. The goal is to identify new and emerging blogs who are making an impact to its readers in 2010. Blogs that are qualified to be on the list are those that started anytime from March 1, 2009 to the present.
Here is my list of Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2010:
1. Christian Homeschooler – an attempt to journal bits and pieces of our family’s homeschooling journey. I am a licensed teacher by profession but deviated to staying at home to be able to homeschool our 4 year old son (he’s 5 now) and work from home at the same time.
2. Gadgets and Tech – a blog where you can read about the latest on gadgets and just about every tech. Yes, this is my husband’s tech blog and he recently just raffled off a Samsung mobile and a Power Mac GC worth P2, 000. We will be meeting up with the winner this weekend!
I often see the little guy reading random stuff. From the literatures at the back of cereal boxes to his Time Life books. I saw him last week with one of his favorite board games to date – Monopoly Junior.
Being my son’s primary teacher as we homeschool, it delights me to bits whenever there are chances that my husband would teach in my behalf. It may not be very often. But he does compensate through a handful of other ways.
My son loves spending time with the neighbor’s. Although I appreciate the convenience it allows me, I also have to watch it. (reasons on the succeeding paragraphs) Yes! Inasmuch as I love my son, I also need some time away from him from time to time. Just a few hours a week, really. By far, I’ve sorta/kinda devised my ways wherein I can do all things while he is around. But it is just extra convenient when he goes to visit them.
Three major reasons:
To spend time alone with the love of my life. <3
To finish online tasks.
To get down to doing house chores in no time. (For one reason or another, it takes extra time when he’s around)
As a homeschooling family, I admit to the benefits of the internet when it comes to finding good resources about homeschooling. But there are quite a number of sites that we should all be made aware of. Like Omegle.com, for instance. It is a chat site that encourages people of all ages (no restricition, there is even no need to register) to talk to strangers. The exact thing that we have been taught when we were little not to do and the very thing that we right now, as parents prohibit our children to do.
My little homeschooler is breezing through the current program he is now in. I have not been uploading videos since we started this school year. Read this article »
I have to admit that as much as I try to be there every single moment with my son, I cannot. Although I can pretty much be more hands on than a mom who works away from home. Zoning out on him as I bury myself in my “office work” is something that happens quite a few times.
It is good that my son loves to read his books. Most of which are Time Life books, which are more like Encyclopedias for kids. He loves it that he does not mind my having to remind him to quit playing online pbs games. There was this one moment that he asked permission if he could watch Dora via YouTube. Dora was his favorite when he was still a baby. I readily said yes. But after a while I was shocked to hear some a person on the background swearing! And you know how copycat children can get. That just about got me frantic for awhile.
My son and I started with our Wheatgrass Project a month ago. We intended to blog about it. But swamped with work I am, which explains why I am backlogged to my neck when it comes to blog articles I have lined up. Even as this Wheatgrass Project is not exactly a part of the curriculum, I have incorporated it in the things he could learn about – even off class. He is amazed at how the wheatberries (seeds) sprout out roots and later grow real grass out of those tiny bits.
And when I say curriculum, that would be ABCs with Ace and Christi. My son graduated last March from his Preschool with Ace and Christi with honors and we just got done with our first month on this current curriculum. This particular curriculum is designed to be preparatory for the child to shift to Level 1/Grade 1.
Our family visited Zoobic Safari last month. Our little homeschooler was so thrilled. His first visit to the zoo (Avilon) was in 2007. He was 2 years old then. It was fun that we were able to take him with us for this media event where a couple of attractions were launched.
