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~ Great Resources ~ We recommend Upper Level Homeschool course and Homeschooling ABCs. Written for beginning homeschoolers, Homeschooling ABCs will guide you navigate you through the sometimes confusing path of getting started homeschooling. Homeschoolers approaching the middle school and high school years will appreciate the resources in Upper Level Homeschooling. Both courses are from Terri Johnson of Knowledge Quest and are full of wisdom from a homeschool mom who has walked the path herself. Check them out!
Standardized testing for children is the equivalent of a gardener pulling his plants up by the root to see if they are growing --John Holt
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Local Homeschooling Resources By State
A collection of recent homeschooling pages, news items, interviews, and features that we have seen online.
Apologia and Creation-Based Science Curricula
A response to the AP story "Top Home-School Texts Dismiss Darwin, Evolution," released on March 6, 2010
Most recent resource additions:
The 12 Days of Homeschooling
Very cute homeschool humor to the tune of the 12 Days of Christmas
Periodic Table Song
The Elements (To be sung to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's A Modern Major General)
Tour of Park Geology - Glaciers and Glacial Landforms
Glaciers are important as indicators of climatic change, as objects of beauty, and as sources of water and recreation. Because glaciers store snow and ice during cold seasons and release it as water during hot, dry weather, they are natural and effective regulators of their water supply. Glaciers have covered almost a third of the world's land throughout time. Evidence of past and present glaciation can be found across our national parks. Explore the parks that exhibit glaciers and glacial landforms.
Tour of Park Geology - Fossils
National Parks contain a rich array of plant, invertebrate, vertebrate, and trace fossils. Fossils are non-renewable and often fragile resources which, with the exception of microfossils and those that make up minerals, such as coal, are relatively rare and have significant scientific, educational and recreational values. Fossils in the National Parks are a part of America's heritage.
March 2010 Homeschooling Resource Calendar
March 2 - Read Across America Day
March 2 - Dr. Seuss' Birthday
March 11 - Johnny Appleseed Day
March 13 - Uranus discovered – 1781
March 14 - Albert Einstein's birthday - 1879
March 14 - Pi Day
March 17 - St. Patrick’s Day
March 30 - Passover
Other March events:
- National Nutrition Month
- Women's History Month
- American Red Cross Month
- Poison Prevention Week (March 14 – 20)
Most recent homeschooling articles
Overwhelmed by Homeschooling and Life
Lately I’m hearing from a lot of homeschool moms asking how to juggle homeschooling, homemaking and preschoolers without losing your mind.
Maybe the popularity of this latest topic stems from the fact that it’s late winter, everyone’s been cooped up indoors for months and they’re sick of it. But juggling the kids, the house and homeschooling can be stressful; how well I know that from my own experience. ..
Why We Educate at Home, a Discussion of the Classical Education Method
My husband and I have no qualms about our style of parenting, which is so tied up in home education. He grew up beside his father in a greenhouse. Our first apartment at 500 sq ft, had 31 houseplants in it. He now works as a landscape designer. So we understand this analogy: Children are like little plants. You take the seed and put it in a little cup of the best topsoil. You give it lots of light. You gently sprinkle it with drops of water so the delicate leaves aren’t broken. When it gets a decent root system, you transplant it to a bigger pot. You protect it from the wind and the hottest sun. You bring it in when there’s a freeze. You don’t put it out where the dog will trample it or a deer will eat the buds. When its well-established, and the season is right, you can transplant it finally to its place outside your home. Then it will do well on its own in the downpours and coldest winters.
So we plan to raise our children, protecting them and ensuring they are firmly established before they go out into the world. It is our hope that they do much better at surviving their relationships and careers with such a secure beginning. Our family follows the Classical Education model. ..
Dealing With Daily Interruptions
Interruptions in our school day – are they simply a fact of life that we have to put up with or are there things we can do to control them? I believe the answer for both questions is: “yes”. In many ways, interruptions are just a fact of life: the baby gets sick, the insurance man stops by or a glass of juice gets spilled. These kinds of interruptions are usually unavoidable. However, there are many interruptions in our day that can be avoided. Let’s look at some of them – along with some possible solutions...