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August 21, 2007
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Hello, readers of The Way Home!
SING FOR MY SUPPER - OUR TEENS GO OFF TO WORK By Erin Chianese
Drive Thru History to the Foundations of America Review by Kyle Zook
Another Unschooling Success By Alison McKee
Five Minutes To Better Reading Skills-By bonnie Terry, M.Ed. Review By Linda Foster
One Mother's Homeschool Talking Points By Krishyon Young
Power-Glide Review by Linda K. Foster
The Young Scientists Club
Remembering Dr. Moore by Kyle Zook
Connecticut Valley Biological Supply Company By Linda K. Foster
WaterWorks School Test Kit
Relaxed Unit Studies By Dr. Mary Hood
Terra Pacific Entertainment Marketing-JUMP TO THE MUSIC Review by Linda K. Foster
Canon Press - Literature for "a life less petty"
LITTLE PASSENGER SEATS - Designed With Children's Safety In Mind Review by Kay Miller
Alphasmart NEO Word Processor by Renaissance Learning - Perfect for Children & Adults By Mary Leppert
Copyright Notice
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Hello, readers of The Way Home!
Welcome to another edition of our electronic publication.
In this issue, we have some excellent articles for your information, another of my favorite recipes and useful product information, as well. For those of you who are not aware of it we do publish a regular magazine called The Link. Please click on the banner below to receive a free copy! The Link is always free of charge. Just click on the link below and provide us with your U.S. Mail information. Since our beginning in 1995, our strict policy has been to keep all of our lists confidential, so your privacy is always intact with us! Thank you for reading The Way Home and The Link. Please let us know if you have any special topics or concern you would like to see covered in our publications. We will do our best to provide the information to you. Also please see our conference information in this newsletter as well. Our conference website is www.californiahomeschoolconference.com
Thank you for reading, Mary.
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SING FOR MY SUPPER - OUR TEENS GO OFF TO WORK By Erin Chianese
Kids are fascinated by workers from Day One. They exclaim delight at firemen, truck drivers, baseball players, musicians, writers, and, of course, dad when he gets home from work. Labor wheedles its way into our everyday language and we don't even realize the origins: Keep your nose to the grindstone (miller, implement sharpener), sell like hotcakes (fairground vendor), get down to brass tacks (upholsterer), pull strings (puppeteer), touch and go (sailor), the real McCoy (inventor), and get off the hook (fisherman).
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Drive Thru History to the Foundations of America Review by Kyle Zook
Drive Thru History America is the fifth installment of the wacky historical series hosted by Dave Stotts and presented by National Day of Prayer. Fasten your seatbelts, Dave Stotts is a charismatic narrator who drives from one historical destination to the next while giving short, but pithy, explanations of the people who helped to form the foundations of Western culture.
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Another Unschooling Success By Alison McKee
Do you know how flabbergasted I was to hear my 25 year old unschooled daughter tell me she can't do long multiplication? Her words hit with hurricane force. This kid, this unschooled young adult can't do long multiplication?! My immediate reaction was to get very down on myself.
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Five Minutes To Better Reading Skills-By bonnie Terry, M.Ed. Review By Linda Foster
Webster's Dictionary defines learning as the act of "gaining knowledge or understanding of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience." Study is defined as the "application of the mental faculties to the acquisition of knowledge." These two concepts are so intertwined that it is difficult to separate them.
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One Mother's Homeschool Talking Points By Krishyon Young
People often pepper me with Homeschool questions. In short order, rationalizations roll smoothly from their lips as to why they "cannot possibly" homeschool their children. It is expected that I will soothe their consciences with a sweet, "Well, perhaps it's not for everyone." One day I did not oblige.
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Power-Glide Review by Linda K. Foster
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Whether you're a businessperson, student, or traveler, brushing up on a language or interested in learning a new one, Power-Glide, available through BrainGrow, is a fast, fun and effective source for learning a second language.
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The Young Scientists Club
http://www.theyoungscientistsclub.com
Imagine having a science magazine that is alive! And it comes to your door, filled with exciting and enjoyable science
projects, tools and information to whet your child's curiosity about science and then provide the way to find answers to
his/her questions.
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Remembering Dr. Moore by Kyle Zook
Last month, July 13, 2007, saw the passing of homeschooling pioneer, Dr. Raymond S. Moore. Those who knew Dr. Moore give him great credit as being the "father of modern homeschooling."
As early as 1972, Dr. Moore was challenging the establishment, and his paper, "Better Late Than Early," published in Harper's, helped defeat a movement in California to make public schooling mandatory for children as early as 2 years and 9 months of age.
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Connecticut Valley Biological Supply Company By Linda K. Foster
This family-owned business provides a wide variety of competitively priced science teaching materials for use in elementary through college level courses. Annelids, insects, crustaceans and plants are just a few of the living organisms offered by Connecticut Valley Biological Supply Company.
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WaterWorks School Test Kit
The WaterWorks School Test Kit is perfect for classroom science experiments. Designed for a classroom of 30 students (a total of 540 tests in each kit), the WaterWorks School Test Kit contains 11 educational classroom activities & experiments including creating water cycles and testing for acid rain.
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Relaxed Unit Studies By Dr. Mary Hood
Do the words "relaxed" and "unit studies" seem like an unlikely coupling? Many of the moms I've known who have based the majority of their instruction on unit studies have burned out after awhile, due to the heavy demands of this "hands-on approach", but it really doesn't have to turn out that way.
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Terra Pacific Entertainment Marketing-JUMP TO THE MUSIC Review by Linda K. Foster
www.jumptothemusic.com
Childhood obesity in the United States has grown considerably in recent years producing some disturbing facts:
1 in 5 children are overweight.
The prevalence of obesity has increased by 54% since the 1960s among children ages 6 to 11 and 39% among children ages 12 to 17.
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Canon Press - Literature for "a life less petty"
What makes a life less petty? At Canon Press, we want to encourage intellectual, moral, and spiritual improvement in the lives of our customers, friends, and family. One element of this is teaching sound Christian doctrine. But doctrine by itself cannot make your life full and rounded out.
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LITTLE PASSENGER SEATS - Designed With Children's Safety In Mind Review by Kay Miller
If you're trying to decide what to do when your children outnumber the seats in your SUV, Little Passenger Seats can be a lifesaver, adding third- and sometimes fourth-row seating without the need to purchase a new vehicle. "If necessity is the mother of invention, then it's safe to say that my daughter's motherhood necessitated this invention," says Russell Edmundson, co-founder with his wife, Dona of Little Passenger Seats.
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Alphasmart NEO Word Processor by Renaissance Learning - Perfect for Children & Adults By Mary Leppert
Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow, is all I can say. I love this product! Everywhere I go, I am constantly writing something or taking/making notes - books-to-read, story ideas, notes from workshops I attend, shopping lists, phone messages . . . and I am always interested in finding a tool that makes this writing work easier and more efficient, as well as being compatible with my larger computers.
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Copyright Notice
Copyright 2007 by Modern Media. No part of the publication can be reproduced without the express written permission of Modern Media.
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