Carnival of Homeschool: Week 262 - The 5th Anniversary

Welcome to the fifth anniversary of the Carnival of Homeschooling. This is the 262th edition! It is one of the longest running weekly blog carnivals.

My wife and I are very grateful that are so many people who participate, who help promote the carnival, and who give us encouragement. We are especially appreciative of the several dozen people who take turns hosting the carnival.



The theme for this carnival revolves around quotes from the movie Princess Bride. Our family loves Princess Bride. It is one of our favorite movies. It may be one of the most quoted movies of our generation. If you start to say anywhere in the English speaking world "I don't think that word means …" Many people will be able to finish the line.

Most of the following quotes were taken from this web site: Princess Bride Quotes.


"When I was your age, television was called books."

The movie starts off with Peter Folk as the grandfather offering to read a book to his sick grandson. At first the grandson isn't that interested in something as old fashioned as books. Many homeschoolers are big time book lovers.

One family usually spends a week each semester visiting libraries. Library Story with alternat(or) ending is a report of one of the visits, written by the Home School Dad.

Marlis has a Giveaway! of a 6 set interactive science book. She has the three book set and all of her family loves learning together from it. Posted at The Itchy Homeschooler.

A consideration when there's reading trouble... is Mellisa's journey in helping her son be a better reader, posted at Bugs, Knights, and Turkeys In the Yard.


"That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying 'As you wish', what he meant was, 'I love you.'"

Early in the story Buttercup learns that Wesley loves her. Homeschooling often has huge portions of love. There are a huge variety of reasons for homeschooling. Trys explains a few of hers in Letting Go & Moving Forward, on her blog Trixi's HomeSchool Academy.

The NerdMom write being thoughtful about what we expose our children to in Time and Influence, from the NerdFamily Blog.


Vizzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE.

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

This is one of the most famous pair of lines from the movie. I'm using this category for those posts which I couldn't imagine putting any where else.

It is still a bit amazing to me that this is the fifth anniversary of the Carnival of Homeschooling. Sarah provides An Anniversary Perspective, from SmallWorld.

Tiffany really likes SpellQuizzer and has it available as a Giveaway, over at her blog As For My House.

Homeschooling has become more and more popular. One of the problems that comes as more and more people buy products is Curriculum Overload! (From Chrysalis Academy)

Alasandra writes that Secular doesn't mean Anti-Christian at Alasandra's Homeschool Blog.

WooHoo---Final Day of Ancient Greece by the Eclectic Momma is about the culmination of our unit on Ancient Greece complete with Mini-Metric Olympics, Greek feast and geometry.

With The Chinese Infiltration Of American Education Judy (of Consent of the Governed) has yet another reason to homeschool your children. The Communist Chinese government is now funding American public education.

First Works from Central Europe records the process a mother went through in answering some questions her daughter had, like "Why don't butterflies have eyes and ears like foxes do?" from the blog Afterschooling Expat.


Man in Black: Oh, there's something I ought to tell you.

Inigo Montoya: Tell me. Man in Black: I'm not left-handed either.

People are not always what they seem to be. This can be particularly true for Homeschoolers. Because we are a small minority, homeschoolers a

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