Posts Tagged ‘homeschooling books’
Homeschooling Resources: It’s Soup Month!
Homeschooling Resources: It's Soup Month! BY REBECCA RUPP January is National Soup Month! Check out this list for soup stories, soup poems, historical soup, scientific soup, artistic soup (well, artistic soup cans), and even soup on the silver screen. National Soup Month In Kate Banks’s Alphabet Soup (Dragonfly Books, 1994), a little [...]
Homeschooling Resources: Let It Snow!
Homeschooling Resources: Let It Snow! BY REBECCA RUPP Got snow? Whether you do or not, it’s fun stuff. Check out these books and resources – and included, for those who don’t, are sources for making your very own snow. Ezra Jack Keats’s 1963 Caldecott-Medal-winning The Snowy Day (Viking Juvenile, 2011) is a beloved classic about a [...]
Trust the Most Powerful Tool Nature Has Provided Parents
Trust the Most Powerful Tool Nature Has Provided Parents BY LINDA DOBSON My e-mailbox overfloweth. There is no question anymore that a significant number of parents are questioning what's going on in public schools today. More importantly, they are searching the Internet for information and resources, and reaching out to anyone they think [...]
Did You Know These Women Were Homeschooled?
Did You Know These Women Were Homeschooled? BY LINDA DOBSON It's interesting to see how many firsts, founders, feminists, and reformers appear when we visit historical women who were homeschooled. Famous Homeschooled Women For starters, there's Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906), the reformer and women's rights leader. Susan could read and [...]
6 Reasons to Tell Your Straight-A Kid to Drop Out of School
6 Reasons to Tell Your Straight-A Kid to Drop Out of School BY SUKI WESSLING It was the 1980’s in a small town in in the Midwest. Educationally speaking, you had two options: the good public schools or the pretty awful Catholic school. My parents gave my sister one year with the nuns before they chose public school for her and the four [...]
