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"Deck the Halls with Boughs of Challah"
Interweaving interfaith religions & traditions
by Beth Bruno & Deirdre O'Gorman Goldsmith
bethbruno.jpg (4794 bytes)Many families interweave the traditions of different religions. My friends, Scott and Deirdre, who were raised in Jewish and Roman Catholic families, respectively, combined their religions when they married and now look ahead to educating their children, families and friends through the richness each religion brings into their lives. Find out more with a wonderful essay from my friend Dierdre.

Reading Rescue 1 - 2 - 3
Raise Your Child's Reading Level 2 Grades
with This Easy 3-Step Program
Interview with  Peggy M. Wilber, M.Ed.
hosted by Joe Spataro
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Peggy Wilber  is the cofounder of the Pikes Peak One+One Reading Tutoring Program and teaches parents, grandparents, tutors and educators how to help children improve their reading skills. She says, "Research has shown that children who don’t read well become better readers when they receive auditory training." Find out more about her system, how it relates to dyslexia and ADD/ADHD, and get some practical tips to help your child learn to read better.
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Meet the Author
"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Homeschooling"
by Marsha Ransom
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ransom.jpg (4234 bytes)Marsha Ransom, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Homeschooling, is the mother of four children, two of whom have always been homeschooled. She serves as a homeschool resource for her local library and writes articles for Home Education Magazine, The Link: A Homeschool Newspaper, Women's International Net, and Homeschool Dad Magazine. In this interview on the Zone, Marsha discusses how she came to write this book, developing your program, homeschooling on a budget, what is happening with her homeschooled children, her future plans and a FREE excerpt which tells you how to set up a homeschool cooperative.

Unschooling - Learning Through Everyday Life
by Suzannah Harris, editor of "The Unschooler" e-zine
harris.jpg (5789 bytes)Children are better off learning at home, away from the traditional teaching techniques offered by public and private schools. Unschoolers contend that none of us excels at everything, and to expect children to excel in all subjects is unrealistic and harmful to a child's self esteem, drawing children away from feeling useful, productive and involved in the mainstream of the community and society in general. Unschooling parents discover that there are many ways that different children learn the same things, that each child's view of the world is unique, and that choice of methods, tools, etc., can be in constant change. Find out more.

Asperger's Syndrome
by Sue Spataro, RN, BSN
gonext.gif (388 bytes)What is it & does your child have it?
AS is defined as a form of autism. It was "discovered" by Hans Asperger's back in 1944. It is stressful for kids with AS to interact with other kids and adults. Though they may desperately want to have friends they find that it's very hard to "read" and understand what others mean. It's as if they are "emotionally blind". Find out how to recognize AS in your child, what experts in the field have to say about this condition, and what you can do help make you life better.

Faces of Home Education
The entire world is OUR classroom
facesofhomeed.jpg (13661 bytes)The term "homeschooling" is really a misnomer because for a home educator the entire world is the classroom. Home education is not just sitting at a desk looking a a musty text book. Anyone who has been homeschooling for a while knows that. That is why we have this new section called "Faces of Homeschooling." We are interested in snapshots of people who homeschool engaged in activities OUTSIDE of the home.
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Meet the Authors
Mary & Michael Leppert
Co-author of "Homeschooling Almanac 2002-2003"
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leppert.gif (5626 bytes)They have compiled a wonderful resource for homeschoolers. It is a resource guide for books, magazines, catalogs, prepackaged materials, cybersources, specific homeschooling methods, religious references and more. It also features over $1000 of FREE coupons which could easily pay for the purchase price. I have the opportunity to interview Mary & Michael and they took the time to share their views with us on the homeschooling movement and a bit about their personal life with their children. We are also featuring a very nice excerpt from their book which is entitled, What Kind of Learner is Your Child. I hope everyone gets a chance to look at closely and use this information to help you in your homeschool program. They are very frank and their answers and the excerpt are easy to read.


Homeschooling 101
Home Schooling: Is it for you?
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Home Learning: Year by Year
Home learning Sourcebook
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Rebecca Rupp
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The Explosive Child
redchk.gif (175 bytes)Interview with author Ross Greene
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Homeschool Your Child for FREE
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All the Math You'll Ever Need:
A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides)
by Steve Slavin
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Math Curricula & Ideas
Review by author Rebecca Rupp
It's a self-teaching guide for math basics, supposedly targeted at teenagers and adults who need math review. It covers multiplication and division, decimals, fractions, percents, negative numbers, algebraic equations, exponents, square roots, ratios, basic geometry,    rate/time/distance problems, interest rates and some other business math, simple statistics.

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