Carnival of Homeschooling- Women?s Independence Day Edition
Hosted this week by Renae at Life Nurturing Education.
Texas House Bill 67 calls for August 26th to be celebrated as Women?s Independence Day. It was on this day in 1920 that the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution became a law, which guaranteed women the right to vote.
Welcome to the Carnival of Homeschooling- Women?s Independence Day edition! Please join those of us in Texas as we remember the dedication and sacrifice made to advance the liberty of women.
One Hundred Years Towards Suffrage will serve as a partial outline. It gives a glimpse of the long, watchful fight of individuals longing for equality and freedom for themselves and their neighbors. Read more...
Teaching 4 Dimensions
We all know about the three dimensions of width, height, depth. It may be a bit of a stretch to learn 4 (or more) dimensions using pencil and paper. Dimensions is an online video series that will visually teach 4 dimension in a somewhat understandable format.
If you child has reached the outer limits of his/her understanding of geometry, this might be the ticket. I watched some of the segments, (there's 2 hours in all) there is a slow progression, building on what you know until you finally break through to a new dimension of space. I'd recommend this for kids who have an understanding of geometry.
A film for a wide audience!
Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed! Background information on every chapter: see Read more...
Brazilian Couple May be Jailed if Children Fail Tests
This is the second story on this case. See the first here.
MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL, August 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After receiving four days of intense testing by government authorities in a showdown over the future of homeschooling in Brazil, David and Jonatas Nunes are optimistic, despite the fact that the tests were changed on them only one week before, allowing little time for adequate study.
Although the Nunes family was initially told that the tests the children would be given were to be on mathematics, geography, science, and history, they were told only a week in advance that they would also be tested on Portuguese, English, arts, and physical education, including questions about the history of handball, basketball, soccer, and other sports.
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It would be funnier if it wasn't so aggravating
Henry at Why Homeschool posted this great YouTube video of a bureaucrat and the UK prime minister discussing education vouchers. It's so funny because it's so true to life.
The National Education Service
Homeschooling not easy, but rewards are many
A great commentary from a homeschooler at hickoryrecord.com.
We began our homeschool journey in 2000. It was during that fall that we discovered that our oldest child, who had been on the "A" honor roll all of her academic life, did not learn any math skills in third grade in public school. Her entrance exam to fourth grade showed that she had the math skills of a child finishing 2nd grade.
She was unable to complete assignments in her fourth-grade math book because she did not know basic multiplication and division.
Did we, her parents, know that she was not being taught multiplication? No. We assumed that she was doing well in third-grade math, based on her report cards. Read more...
Day three Jimmy?s Stars:?
This is my last day blogging on Jimmy?s Stars, Mary Ann Rodman?s middle grade novel set during World War II. (See my review on day one and my Salmon Pea Wiggle recipe yesterday.) I thought I might give you a few "reading comprehension questions". If you?ve read the book, let?s see if you can answer these?
Who did Ellie get in a fight with in chapter one?Why did Ellie get in this fight?What is Jimmy?s nickname for Ellie?Give an example of the lovely lunches the kids brought to school.What was the Christmas present Jimmy gave Ellie?What are the words to "Mairzy Doats"? What happened that made Ellie trash Toot?s room (chapter 26)?If you can?t answer a question feel free to email me and I?ll send you the answer.
Jimmy?s Stars has some great vocabulary words:
Here?s a partial list your students can review.
Sprawled
Demeanor
Conscientious
Sympathetic
Trifle
Arpeggio
Ominous
Sashaying
Pungent
Banishing
Luminous
Gravelly
Motley
Lugubrious
Be sure to check out what other blogger?s are saying about this novel:
01 Charger, A Childhood of Dreams, A Christian Worldview of Fiction, A Mom Speaks, All About Children?s Books, Becky?s Book Reviews, Book Review Maniac, By the Book Reviews, Dolce Bellezza, Fireside Musings, Homeschool Buzz, Looking Glass Reviews, Maggie Reads, Maw Books, Small World Reads, The Friendly Book Nook, The Hidden Side of a Leaf
Carnival of Homeschooling: more than Textbooks
Janice Campbell is hosting this week at her blog.
Welcome to the 137th Carnival of Homeschooling! If you?re not a year-round schooler, you?re probably thinking of starting soon. Many of our bloggers are too, but a few are thinking differently. I hope you enjoy traveling through the landscape of ideas and inspiration you?ll find here!
Enjoy!
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Homeschooling is about so much more than textbooks and lesson plans. Here are a few other things you may want to think about including in your learning days: Read more...
AR Homeschooling growing
The number of students home-schooled in Arkansas is expected to increase this year following an established trend of growth of enrollments in the state, according to Melissa Savary, director of The Education Alliance, an association of home schools.
A final enrollment count for the 2006-2007 school year, the latest number released by the Arkansas Department of Education, indicates there were 15,012 Arkansas students home-schooled that year, up from 10 years ago at 6,420. Read more...
Enrichment activities for Jimmy?s Stars
Yesterday I reviewed Jimmy?s Stars by Mary Ann Rodman. I have a few suggested activities below that will enhance your reading experience. If you didn?t catch my review, check it out.
Whip up your own Salmon Pea wiggle or and enjoy it while listening to a
Bob Hope or Bing Crosby song. Follow the meal with a dessert of gingerbread with cream cheese icing.
Salmon pea wiggle recipe:
* 3 cups whole milk
* 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
* 2 (14.75 ounce) cans salmon, drained and flaked
* 1 cup baby peas (drained)
* salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
DIRECTIONS
Place milk in a large saucepan over medium heat. Bring just to the boiling point, stirring constantly. Gradually whisk in the flour with a fork, and continue cooking and stirring until slightly thickened. Stir in the peas, and let the mixture heat back up to a simmer while stirring constantly. Mix in the salmon, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Continue cooking and stirring until thick and heated through. Serve over saltine crackers or toast, or even buttered noodles.
Enjoy!
Here is list of other bloggers participating in this ?book tour?:
01 Charger, A Childhood of Dreams, A Christian Worldview of Fiction, A Mom Speaks, All About Children?s Books, Becky?s Book Reviews, Book Review Maniac, By the Book Reviews, Dolce Bellezza, Fireside Musings, Homeschool Buzz, Looking Glass Reviews, Maggie Reads, Maw Books, Small World Reads, The Friendly Book Nook, The Hidden Side of a Leaf
McCain on Homeschooling
I didn't get to hear the Saddleback interviews myself. (Anyone know where I can hear or get a transcript?) I ran across this quote from McCain that mentions homeschooling:
The candidates were asked about paying schoolteachers based on merit. Obama had some wishy-washy answer. McCain?s response? ?Find bad teachers another line of work.? Pastor Warren interjected and accused McCain of replying too quickly. McCain shot right back, ?Can I just say choice and competition, home schooling, charter school vouchers, all the choice competition I want?.home schooling works, vouchers in our nation?s capitol works?.New York City is reforming?.New Orleans now has over 30 charter schools in the city and guess what? It?s all coming up?what kind of opportunity is it if you send them to a failing school?? Read more...
Homeschooling Showdown in Brazil
Two homeschooled children face a battery of tests this week in a showdown between the Brazilian government and a Christian family over the educational rights of parents in the South American nation.
The children of Cleber and Bernadeth Nunes have already passed the entrance exams for law school at the ages of 13 and 14, but that doesn't satisfy the Brazilian government, which has been trying to force them into its troubled school system since 2006.
After over a year of battling authorities for the right to home school their children, the Nunes' two prodigies will be tested on a variety of subjects to prove that their parents are not guilty of "intellectual abandonment", a legal term that indicates that one has not fulfilled the obligation of providing for the education of one's children. Read more...
Radio Host Takes On Homeschoolers
Greg and Martine Millman, authors of Homeschooling: a family's journey were interviewed for about 40 minutes by radio host Barry Lynn. It was an adversarial interview in which he challenged the idea of homeschooling. You can listen to this online either live or (I think) tomorrow on the host's website.
Barry Lynn, host of the radio show Culture Shocks interviewed us today. In a forty minute segment, Lynn disputed the notion that people can homeschool without teaching credentials, insisted that public schools are doing just fine for most kids, and challenged homeschoolers who don?t like something about their school system to stay in the system and change it instead of homeschooling. Read more...
Two Questions Homeschoolers are Asked
Almost all home-school families have been asked two questions. The most common is "What about socialization?" The assumption behind this
question is children need to spend large amounts of time with their peers so they will grow up to be responsible adults. Sounds intuitive, but the opposite is true.
Where do we spend most of our lives? It's in a world of adults of different ages and backgrounds, not the peer-segregated environment of an institutional school. Read more...
Video: No You Can't, Yes You Can
Stuart Shepard explains why a California court's decision to reverse its earlier decision may leave home-schoolers' heads spinning. Read more...
Interview with Michael Farris
Citizenlink has an interview with Michael Farris of HSLDA.
In a 3-0 decision last week, the California Court of Appeal for the 2nd Appellate District reversed its earlier ruling that would have required parents to be certified in order to home-school their children.
Michael Farris, co-founder and chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, was thrilled by the victory, which affects more than 166,000 home-schooled children in California.
"Let me be quick to say that when we answer the question of 'Why did we win?' the ultimate answer is found in the blessing and protection of God," he said. Read more...
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Upon arriving at the Anchorage Airport, my niece proclaimed, "Aunt Bev, You're older than Alaska!" My immediate response was, "No, I'm not" and then a "Yes, I am." as I...
Therese shared how her family uses their tablecloth as a patchwork quilt with mementos of their school year. I think it's a great idea and a unique way to share...
Janice Campbell of Taking Time for Things That Matter hosted the carnival this week, reminding us that homeschooling is more that textbooks. Homeschool families can be very creative when it...
Megan Mathewson of Nevada is featured in the August/September issue of Discovery Girls Magazine. Megan is homeschooled in her home town of Las Vegas. Her favorite subject is science and...
Sprittibee takes a trip down memory lane as she reflects on her years of homeschooling through pictures. Enjoy the subsmissions in this weeks Carnival of Homeschooling: Homeschool Memories Edition.
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I like that. Homeschooling is "a species of private school education". My years of homeschooling was made legal by filing an affidavit establishing our school as a private school. I'm...
My kids get a kick out of watching me freak out and run from June bugs, which I've learned are actually May Beetles. These bugs have been haunting me since...
In preparing for the school year to begin, how do you establish a school identity? Do you name your school? Do you have a mascot, make student identification cards or...
We had a moderate earthquake here in Southern California. It's a 5.4 about 5 miles from my home so I felt it quite strongly. Although this earthquake was quite mild,...
I love the theme for the Homeschooling Carnival this week. Judy of Consent of the Governed writes about the Boy Scouts and then shows what merit badges homeschoolers are working...
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Over the last six years, Stewart Mader has staked his career on the power of wikis. Mader first worked on wiki adoption initiatives in the IT department at Brown University, becoming fascinated by their power and potential. On the day we spoke, he had just left a two-year position as a wiki evangelist with Atlassian, an Australian-based software company that offers a wiki tool called Confluence. Mader has now returned to working as a wiki consultant, where his company, Grow Your Wiki, focuses on organizational wiki adoption.Read the Full Article
Birmingham's pioneering use of XO computers from the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child initiative has captured educators' attention Read the Full Article
For schools that rely on E-rate funding for telecommunications and Internet access, changes are afoot that could impact planning as soon as funding year 2009. The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comments on potential changes to the E-rate Eligible Services List that in some cases would narrow the list of eligible technologies and in some cases expand it. The notice was filed in the Federal Register Aug. 18, so comments are due in less than a month.Read the Full Article
Wrapping up the final day of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Thursday, Intel Corp CTO Justin Rattner examined during his keynote how technology will bring man and machine closer by 2050, and predicted that big changes are ahead in terms of social interactions, robotics and improvements to a computer’s ability to sense the real world.Read the Full Article
What is ScienceHack?ScienceHack is a unique video search engine for science videos. Read the Full Article
STAMFORD, CT, Aug 21, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Although new and used textbooks dominate the higher education instructional materials scene, the rising trend is in multimedia tools -- particularly for homework assistance and assessment, according to "College Publishing Market Forecast 2008-2009," the latest report from media industry forecast and analysis firm Simba Information. Publishers are finding that the appeal of digital tools is sparking interest in e-textbooks, the report says. Read the Full Article
Guide to “Understanding and Raising Girls” and “Supersisters” Blog Among the New Additions at www.pbsparents.org
For several decades, archaeologists in Greece have been painstakingly attempting to reconstruct wall paintings that hold valuable clues to the ancient culture of Thera, an island civilization that was buried under volcanic ash more than 3,500 years ago.Read the Full Article
Expression Blend 2 (PC only, 57 MB,): Interactive WYSIWYG design tool with support for Silverlight (Microsoft's new cross-platform, cross-browser interactive presentation technology plug-in that competes with Apple's QuickTime Player and Adobe Flash Player). Work in Design, Code (XAML) or Split View to composite vector and bitmap images, video, audio, rich text, adding animation, graphics, 3D and video to a variety of vector controls including buttons, scroll bars, list boxes, menus, radio buttons, tree views, sliders, and check-boxes. Animate points on a path; create engaging animations.Read the Full Article
Ramon McLeod, Editor, PCWorld.comFinding the right technology gift for this season's big moments can be a challenge, but the expert buying guides and reviews you'll find here will help you make the right purchase at the right price. Inside, you'll find the best of show for the products that are sure to put a smile on the faces of those closest to you. Whether you're surprising Dad or your recent grad, we have products ranging from the practical to the entertaining the just plain fun. And this is a great time to get a cool technology product as many companies begin phasing out older lines for the new products they'll be touting later in the year. There are bargains out there, but become informed and prepared with our expert information.Read the Full Article
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