ActivityTV, Unschooling Teens, INCH Convention
Added by Heather Idoni
Monday, May 7, 2012
========================================================== Vol. 13 No. 10, May 7, 2012, ISSN: 1536-2035 ========================================================== (c) 2012, Heather Idoni - www.FamilyClassroom.net ========================================================== Welcome to The Homeschooler's Notebook! If you enjoy this newsletter, please recommend it to a friend! And please visit our sponsors -- they make this publication possible! :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It’s time once again forOak Meadow’s Annual Spring Sale, and that means great savings on their award-winning homeschool curriculum and enrollment in their fully-accredited distance learning school. Make sure you take a look at their curriculum samples before visiting their online bookstore for 20% savings on their homeschool curriculum. Enrollment in their fully accredited distance learning school is also 10% off this month. And for something free, make sure you visit their quarterly journal, Living Education. The winter issue was completely devoted to writing, and included great articles such as Thoughts on Teaching Writing PreK -8 and Hardwired for Writing: The Intelligence of the Hand. Inspiration and savings for your home school program are just a click away! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Getting Ready for INCH!
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Are you heading to your own local homeschool conference soon? Check out this previous issue which has an article with great tips for planning ahead to make the most of it!
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Arkive.org
If you click on 'Education' at the bottom of the site, you will also find some free powerpoint presentations you can download, as well as educational games."
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Latecomer to Unschooling
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"Unschooling is basically a method of teaching which is very much unlike the traditional school setting. A child's learning program is completely individualized according to his aptitudes, gifts, interests, and his parents' wisdom. It's very difficult to tell someone how to do it, because no two unschooling situations look alike. You might use lots of books, or hardly any. The child might study through instruction, through independent study, or a combination of both.
I would suggest for a teen, start by listing the following:
After thorough consideration of those topics, you should have a fairly good sense of direction. Do a search on the internet of unschooling resources and read some of them. I especially recommend those by Dr. Raymond Moore. If your child plans to attend college, you will want to figure out a suitable transcript format. Hope this helps." -- Mary Beth ---
Editor's notes...
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Practical Math Alternative to Algebra
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