07/02/2008 - Gardening offers much in the way of simple life lessons for
children. The sooner they are able to experience these lessons, the better off
they will be. Here is an article entitled "Gardening as an experience for the
child".
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06/27/2008 - In America, there was a time when
the idea of home schooling raised eyebrows of concern and could result in a
visit from social services. A lack of trust by the government and public in
general in a parent’s ability to educate their own children made home schooling
a bit of a stigma. All this has now changed. Be sure to read "Home schooled
Children Continue Outperforming Their Public School Counterparts as
Home schooling Increases in Popularity".
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05/30/2008
- Announcing the 2008 Summer Reading Club - This is the 10th Annual Home
schooling Summer Reading Club. Sign up and enter your children now and they can
win a certificate of achievement for their reading efforts.
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05/30/2008:
A Space Age Toy Silly Putty and how to make it - Remember as a child all
the fun you had playing with silly putty. I have tried to explain how to make a
simple imitation version of this famous fun toy. Read More
04/25/2008:
Garbage Gardening The Sweet Potato -
A series dealing with plants which will help you be
able to instruct your children in the fine art of growing plants from cast off
waste that would normally end up in the trash. This is what I refer to as
garbage gardening. We will begin the series with the sweet potato plant.
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04/21/2008:
The Bare Facts on Toilet Paper History - Someone recently asked me what people
used before the invention of the modern toilet paper rolls. Being a survivalist,
this question has been posed many times to me, and I always try to answer it as
honestly as possible. This unit can be included as an interesting addition to a
history assignment.
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04/21/2008:
Tale of two wolves - We
had arrived at our campsite and proceeded to set up our tent. It took longer
then normal to setup as we were a little rust at this skill but we eventually
got it ready for occupancy. Our next task was to gather our firewood to keep
warm and to cook with that evening. We scouted the immediate area grabbing as
much of the fallen wood as we could and brought it back to our camp. This is an
old Native American tale that is sure to delight the home schooled child.
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04/21/2008:
Hands on Experiences for Home School Children - As a home school parent it lays within our realm of responsibility to make learning enjoyable, interesting and effective. When setting up effective home school learning activities we should continually seek out various methods that we can creatively reinforce the learning modules with the actual events studied that day. This is a far simpler task then you may suspect.
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03/06/2008:
Scapebooking for Future Memories - For
those interested in the current scrapbooking hobby, here is how my wife did
hers. This project makes a great activity for the home schooled child.
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02/24/2008:
America Home of the Python - My
ten year old grandson had just finished watching a science fiction movie the
other evening that featured a giant python ravishing everyone in sight. I
carefully explained to my grandson about these snakes. Here is what I told him.
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02/24/2008:
Nairobi's Mutinda the Witchdoctor - Mutinda
is a witchdoctor in Nairobi and this is a short informational article on her.
This article would serve well as a special study in social studies.
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02/15/2008:
What is Mariachi? - Everyone is familiar with the famous Mexican song
"La Cucaracha" so now learn a little about the mariachi music that created it.
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04/21/2008:
Tale of two wolves - We
had arrived at our campsite and proceeded to set up our tent. It took longer
then normal to setup as we were a little rust at this skill but we eventually
got it ready for occupancy. Our next task was to gather our firewood to keep
warm and to cook with that evening. We scouted the immediate area grabbing as
much of the fallen wood as we could and brought it back to our camp. This is an
old Native American tale that is sure to delight the home schooled child.
Read More
04/21/2008:
Hands on Experiences for Home School Children - As a home school parent it lays within our realm of responsibility to make learning enjoyable, interesting and effective. When setting up effective home school learning activities we should continually seek out various methods that we can creatively reinforce the learning modules with the actual events studied that day. This is a far simpler task then you may suspect.
Read More