Helen on September 29th, 2009

In the Sept-Oct, 2003 issue of Home Education Magazine, Sue Smith-Heavenrich writes about The Things I Really Want My Kids to Learn:
By September, every homeschooler in our state has outlined her proposed curriculum and sent it off to the local school district. I never found the forms our school district sent us particularly useful. They [...]

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Helen on September 27th, 2009

In the November-December 1997 issue of Home Education Magazine, in an article titled The Value of Virtual Expeditions, Judy Aron shared some wonderful experiences her family had enjoyed via virtual expeditions:
Every homeschooler knows what a wonderful learning opportunity travel is for kids. They learn mathematics (conversion rates in currency, distances traveled), history, social studies, geography, [...]

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Helen on September 18th, 2009

The American Homeschool Association has been serving homeschooling families with advocacy, support, information and networking since 1995.
The AHA supports, encourages and promotes all approaches to homeschooling, in line with the earliest advocates of home education, John Holt and Dr. Raymond and Dorothy Moore.
Current AHA services include a discussion list and online forum which provides [...]

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Helen on August 27th, 2009

Everything, in homeschooling, connects; sometimes home education has a lot in common with “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” You know how it goes: you’re reading Aesop’s “The Grasshopper and the Ants” and somebody asks how grasshoppers are different from crickets; and in no time at all you’ve wandered off into how to determine the temperature [...]

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Helen on August 26th, 2009

Five Minute Videos offers tens of thousands of videos across 20 categories and 140 subcategories, featuring content from some of the world’s largest media companies as well as many innovative independent producers. The Knowledge category, for example, features subcategories of Education, History, Nature, Science, and others. Each of these presents five minute educational videos [...]

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Helen on August 20th, 2009

Homeschooling is Cool!
A to Z Home’s Cool community website will help you homeschool your kids from preschool, kindergarten, through homeschooling high school with free online education, home-friendly lesson ideas, educational websites, helpful articles, top homeschool programs, books, materials, curriculum… and best of all… Homeschool Friends!
Ann Zeise – the name behind A to Z – is [...]

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