Education : Home Schooling

This is an interesting and fascinating look at dinosaurs across all curriculum areas but with a strong focus on technology. The range of activities also incorporates the range of learning styles – visual, auditory, reading and kinaesthetic. This high-interest theme can be developed either on its own or incorporated into your existing unit. The hard work is done – think of the saving in your time! The activities encourage students to work independently and teaches them skills that can be used in other areas. A variety of research resources are incorporated such as posters, videos, books, Internet, PowerPoint®, audio-cassettes etc. This unit is multi-level and caters to students from Grade 2-6, making it ideal for a multi-level class situation. It has the flexibility for students to work at their own level while developing and extending their skills. This unit can be done on activity sheets or completed using presentation software programs. more...

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A collection of highly motivating Internet based research topics including Marine Life and other Underwater Wonders, Astronomy and Space, the Ancient World, Famous People, Our Earth and Unexplained Mysteries. Web references for research are sourced, provided and regularly maintained through the publisher?s website. more...

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K - 1 Reading Skills - Book 1. This series of 4 graded resource books introduces and then provides practice and revision in a developmental sequence the vocabulary and basic phonetic and grammar skills that children are exposed to at each stage of early reading. Book 1 covers:. • initial consonant sounds – m, s, h, f, b, w, p, c, t, g, l, d, j,. • blend, pl and digraph, th. • endings – s, er, ed, ing. • Punctuation – periods, capital, quotation marks. The books are laid out in a way that makes them useful support material and activities that can be used for:. • largely independent work. • a parent supervised group. • teacher-aide supervised individual/group. • a teacher-led shared activity within a reading program. This series is a power-packed supplementary teaching resource. more...

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K - 1 Reading Skills - Book 3. This series of 4 graded resource books introduces and then provides practice and revision in a developmental sequence the vocabulary and basic phonetic and grammar skills that children are exposed to at each stage of early reading. Book 3 covers:. • blends – fr, gr, cr, gl, pl, fl, st, sc, sp, sm. • short vowels a, e, i, o, u. • alphabetical order. • contractions. • Changing y to ies and ied. The books are laid out in a way that makes them useful support material and activities that can be used for:. • largely independent work. • a parent supervised group. • teacher-aide supervised individual/group. • a teacher-led shared activity within a reading program. This series is a power-packed supplementary teaching resource. more...

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More than one million American children are schooled by their parents. As their ranks grow, home schoolers are making headlines by winning national spelling bees and excelling at elite universities. The few studies conducted suggest that homeschooled children are academically successful and remarkably well socialized. Yet we still know little about this alternative to one of society's most fundamental institutions. Beyond a vague notion of children reading around the kitchen table, we don't know what home schooling looks like from the inside.Sociologist Mitchell Stevens goes behind the scenes of the homeschool movement and into the homes and meetings of home schoolers. What he finds are two very different kinds of home education--one rooted in the liberal alternative school movement of the 1960s and 1970s and one stemming from the Christian day school movement of the same era. Stevens explains how this dual history shapes the meaning and practice of home schooling today. In the process, he introduces us to an unlikely mix of parents (including fundamentalist Protestants, pagans, naturalists, and educational radicals) and notes the core values on which they agree: the sanctity of childhood and the primacy of family in the face of a highly competitive, bureaucratized society.Kingdom of Children aptly places home schoolers within longer traditions of American social activism. It reveals that home schooling is not a random collection of individuals but an elaborate social movement with its own celebrities, networks, and characteristic lifeways. Stevens shows how home schoolers have built their philosophical and religious convictions into the practical structure of the cause, and documents the political consequences of their success at doing so.Ultimately, the history of home schooling serves as a parable about the organizational strategies of the progressive left and the religious right since the 1960s.Kingdom of Children shows what happens when progressive idea more...

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