The Home Education Magazine Back Issue Index spans a twelve-year period of HEM online, and a sampling of articles and columns from each issue are available free in these archives. You can quickly find specific topics with the search feature.
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“I am sure my children learned to read by osmosis. I certainly didn’t teach them. It wasn’t for lack of materials, understand. I had phonics books and some anthologies accompanied by thick spiral bound teacher’s guides detailing ways to incorporate literature into science, math, and social studies. What I didn’t have was time enough to [...]
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 [...]
In the January-February, 1998 issue of Home Education Magazine, homeschooling mom and frequent HEM contributor Sue Smith Heavenrich shared an article full of ways to get kids writing in Getting It Down – Ways to Encourage Reluctant Writers:
“The problems I’ve been faced with over the past few years has been trying to get my non-writer [...]
In her article for the Sept/Oct 2000 issue of Home Education Magazine, “Shooting Hoops, Riding Bikes,” Sue Smith-Heavenrich explains Science and Math in a Kid’s World:
“My younger son loves to play basketball. Or ride his bike through the just-melted mud patches on the logging road. Or follow frogs or kick a soccer ball or just [...]
“Do you study biology?” The high school students asked my children. She was curious about what homeschooled children studied.
“No!” stated my oldest, with all the authority he could muster. “We study caterpillars.” On the drive home he asked, “What is biology anyway?”
“Life. The Universe. And everything,” I responded. “Definitely caterpillars.”
Like most scientific investigations, our studies [...]
