Mary Nix on August 11th, 2009

I often receive requests from different publishers to share their product or review it. I do so with the disclaimer that every product offers different benefits and a family should really pick and choose what does and doesn’t work for them.  I also always like to add that your local library and the great outdoors [...]

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Mary Nix on March 25th, 2009

Music Matters 101 states at their website:
Music Matters, Inc. and musicmatters101.com is a proud supporter of home education. We strive to be your one stop resource for all of your music needs, be it instruments, accessories, lesson plans, books, DVDs or music education materials. In order to help you build a home-based music department, we [...]

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Mary Nix on December 11th, 2008

Below is a great homeschool resource from Stanford. It seems that more and more colleges are offering open source type classes on the Internet.
SEE programming includes one of Stanford’s most popular engineering sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates, and seven more advanced courses in artificial [...]

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Mary Nix on April 11th, 2008

My newsreader settings include blog entries, and a blog post about free homeschooling curriculum was included in one of the alerts.  I was intrigued, because many of us like to refer new homeschooling parents to free information to ease their transition into homeschooling.
Free curriculum that spell out the process and make themselves readily accessible are [...]

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A Homeschool Curriculum for Pre-school and Kindergarten, by Lillian Jones, BestHomeschooling.org – An excellent collection of links to educational and fun activities for helping young children learn. An excerpt:
If you’ve been raising a child up to the age of pre-school or kindergarten, you’ve already begun homeschooling. In those early years, the most appropriate homeschooling activities [...]

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Mary Nix on March 3rd, 2008

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