Considering Homeschooling Ministry™ is a national outreach helping Christian families discover the blessings of a biblical home education. Visit their web site at www.consideringhomeschooling.org
Two curriculum programs they recommend"
CLASS HOMESCHOOLS: Christian k-12 home education since 1967.
Tailored Curriculum: Don't settle for a one-size-fits-all curriculum
CLASS evaluates
results of achievement testing
transcripts and cumulative records
previous grade level courses and scores
parent comments and requests
CLASS then assigns
all necessary subjects appropriate to the student's level
lower or higher grade level
materials if more appropriate for the child materials to correct gaps in the student's educational experience
alternate courses, if requested by you
CLASS selects a best fit curriculum
When it comes to education, one size does not fit all. The uniqueness of each child must be considered when assembling a curriculum. Beginning at second grade, CLASS relies in part on achievement testing to ensure that appropriate materials are assigned to each student. For high school, CLASS also evaluates transcripts and cumulative records. When available, CLASS reviews previous grade level courses and scores. With CLASS you won't get a one-size-fits-all curriculum-you get the curriculum that best fits your child.
For more information on CLASS, go to http://www.homeschools.org/indexTailored.html
Abeka Academy: Excellence in Education from a Christian Perspective
500,000 enrollments since 1985
DVD: Supervise Your Child's Instruction at Home!...with either Program 1 or Program 2
You can supervise and be involved in your child's learning process at home. A manual with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions makes this possible. All textbooks, workbooks, tests, keys and DVDs needed for the course are provided. Students provide their own Authorized King James Version Bible for Bible classes. Pensacola Christian Academy master teachers provide daily instruction on DVD. DVD courses are designed for a 170-day school year. Courses are planned for school-aged children with minimal home supervision. The typical kindergarten day is 3 hours on DVD. Elementary students can expect to spend 3 hours a day on DVD plus independent work time. High school class time is based on 50 minutes of class time plus homework for each course. Students may enroll at any time during the year.
Traditional: Parents can teach without formal training or experience!
The A Beka Academy Traditional Parent-Directed program has courses available for five-year-old kindergarten and grades one through six. This parent-directed program provides you with all the necessary A Beka Book student and teacher materials needed to complete an entire grade. In the 2007-2008 school year, over 40,000 students were enrolled in A Beka Academy.
For more information, go to http://www.abekaacademy.org/
Monday, February 16, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Homeschool Freebies!
Check out www.HomeschoolFreebieoftheDay.com . If you join their FREE mailing list, you get a link to download a free resource everyday!!! Great e-books and audio books and audio book units. AND IT'S ALL FREE!
Public Schools
Public Schools
Thursday, February 5, 2009
How is your current reading curriculum working?
Is it giving your child the essential reading foundation necessary for reading success?
Research and scientifically proven, the Discover Intensive Phonics program proves that this foundation is necessary. This program is a systematic, explicit, Orton-Gillingham based approach to reading. Discover Intensive Phonics instruction helps automatic readers excel, struggling readers improve, and/or gives young readers a proven foundation that covers all of the necessary beginning reading skills. Reading Horizons offers free online training and numerous resources to ensure successful instruction and make it easy to teach. All materials are non-consumable. These materials include but not limited to, games, activities, and progress assessments. The computer software teaches the entire program, offering hands-on, independent learning.
It is never too late to start down the right road to reading!
Contact Shantell for details
shantell@readinghorizons.com
Research and scientifically proven, the Discover Intensive Phonics program proves that this foundation is necessary. This program is a systematic, explicit, Orton-Gillingham based approach to reading. Discover Intensive Phonics instruction helps automatic readers excel, struggling readers improve, and/or gives young readers a proven foundation that covers all of the necessary beginning reading skills. Reading Horizons offers free online training and numerous resources to ensure successful instruction and make it easy to teach. All materials are non-consumable. These materials include but not limited to, games, activities, and progress assessments. The computer software teaches the entire program, offering hands-on, independent learning.
It is never too late to start down the right road to reading!
Contact Shantell for details
shantell@readinghorizons.com
Florida Private School for Homeschoolers
Hello from Grace Alone Academy! We are a registered Florida Private School for Homeschoolers. Our school offers record keeping services that comply with Florida Home Education Statutes as well as offering many other optional services.
We offer a monthly newsletter, online reporting, high school diplomas, DOE accepted transcripts, FLVS affiliation, a yearbook geared to homeschool families, camping adventures, online classes, field trips, an end of year celebration and much more.
Grace Alone Academy is excited to offer online record keeping to our home educating families. The ability to provide online record keeping is one of the features that sets Grace Alone Academy apart from other organizations. Through an affiliation with our online homeschool reporting, our families will enjoy:
· Simple, secure online record keeping system
· Offsite electronic storage and backup of important student records
· Record grades, track attendance, portfolio entries, lesson plans, standardized test score and immunization records
· Access and update your records from any location, via the internet, at any time
· Flexibility in record keeping or reporting requirements
· Generate student transcripts immediately
· Opportunity for you to train your student(s) in online computing
· Records protected by username and password authentication
· And much more...
Why should you choose a private umbrella for your homeschool? Many Christian homeschoolers enjoy the private school option because it allows them to legally exercise religious freedom for their homeschool, rather than being subject to secular government influences. The added benefit of administrative services frees the parent up to spend more time teaching and less time on records and other time consuming tasks.
Is Grace Alone Academy Accredited? No. After much research and prayer, we have no plans to seek accreditation. Through prior experience, we have found that a diploma from an accredited school does not make a difference in college entry or military entrance. If your student plans to continue post secondary education or the military, it is best to take the SAT or ACT as this is the final indicator of a student’s success rather than rely on accreditation. You are teaching your child, not the school; therefore, a student is assessed based on their knowledge and not by whether the private school has paid for accreditation.
Please contact us or visit www.gracealoneacademy.org for additional information.
In HIS Service,
Tonya Reed
Florida Counselor and School Director
fbiuthldr@fairpoint.net
(850)902-2421
We offer a monthly newsletter, online reporting, high school diplomas, DOE accepted transcripts, FLVS affiliation, a yearbook geared to homeschool families, camping adventures, online classes, field trips, an end of year celebration and much more.
Grace Alone Academy is excited to offer online record keeping to our home educating families. The ability to provide online record keeping is one of the features that sets Grace Alone Academy apart from other organizations. Through an affiliation with our online homeschool reporting, our families will enjoy:
· Simple, secure online record keeping system
· Offsite electronic storage and backup of important student records
· Record grades, track attendance, portfolio entries, lesson plans, standardized test score and immunization records
· Access and update your records from any location, via the internet, at any time
· Flexibility in record keeping or reporting requirements
· Generate student transcripts immediately
· Opportunity for you to train your student(s) in online computing
· Records protected by username and password authentication
· And much more...
Why should you choose a private umbrella for your homeschool? Many Christian homeschoolers enjoy the private school option because it allows them to legally exercise religious freedom for their homeschool, rather than being subject to secular government influences. The added benefit of administrative services frees the parent up to spend more time teaching and less time on records and other time consuming tasks.
Is Grace Alone Academy Accredited? No. After much research and prayer, we have no plans to seek accreditation. Through prior experience, we have found that a diploma from an accredited school does not make a difference in college entry or military entrance. If your student plans to continue post secondary education or the military, it is best to take the SAT or ACT as this is the final indicator of a student’s success rather than rely on accreditation. You are teaching your child, not the school; therefore, a student is assessed based on their knowledge and not by whether the private school has paid for accreditation.
Please contact us or visit www.gracealoneacademy.org for additional information.
In HIS Service,
Tonya Reed
Florida Counselor and School Director
fbiuthldr@fairpoint.net
(850)902-2421
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Learn To Type with Mavis Beacon
The best-selling typing training program is now better than ever! Our customers asked for a fresh update to Mavis Beacon and we've delivered with a comprehensive refresh of our award-winning program! Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing® Deluxe 20 delivers all the proven training excellence of past versions with a fresh, updated design and user experience that we think you'll love.
Buy it now for just $17.99 and start enjoying the benefits of better typing as soon as possible. Just a little bit of time with Mavis Beacon will have you typing better, emailing faster and working smarter! Don't wait long! This offer expires at midnight on February 18, 2009. Plus, take advantage of our limited-time $5.50 flat-rate shipping special.*
Buy it now for just $17.99 and start enjoying the benefits of better typing as soon as possible. Just a little bit of time with Mavis Beacon will have you typing better, emailing faster and working smarter! Don't wait long! This offer expires at midnight on February 18, 2009. Plus, take advantage of our limited-time $5.50 flat-rate shipping special.*
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Resources From A Former Homeschooler...
It's been 20 years since I homeschooled my children, so I'm out of the loop. I have, though, saved some of the materials I prepared for them and have made available online, free of charge, for anyone interested, the only proviso being that, as copyrighted material, they cannot be published under a different name or title without my permission. Below are their URL's.
l http://www.geocities.com/cfnavarro26/games.html (Oral Word Games for Pre-Readers -- Verbal Analogies; Rhyming Riddles; Antonyms; Synonyms; Similarities; Sets and Subsets; Parts and Wholes
http://www.geocities.com/cfnavarro26/affixes.html (English Prefixes and Suffixes—intermediate or advanced level)
http://www.geocities.com/cfnavarro26/analogiesfull.pdf (Verbal Analogies--intermediate level)
http://www.geocities.com/cfnavarro26/novelita.html (Animal Stories in Spanish--elementary level)
http://www.geocities.com/cfnavarro26/biblefull.pdf (Old Testament Families and Characters Workbook--advanced level)
Happy Homeschooling!
C. Navarro
l http://www.geocities.com/cfnavarro26/games.html (Oral Word Games for Pre-Readers -- Verbal Analogies; Rhyming Riddles; Antonyms; Synonyms; Similarities; Sets and Subsets; Parts and Wholes
http://www.geocities.com/cfnavarro26/affixes.html (English Prefixes and Suffixes—intermediate or advanced level)
http://www.geocities.com/cfnavarro26/analogiesfull.pdf (Verbal Analogies--intermediate level)
http://www.geocities.com/cfnavarro26/novelita.html (Animal Stories in Spanish--elementary level)
http://www.geocities.com/cfnavarro26/biblefull.pdf (Old Testament Families and Characters Workbook--advanced level)
Happy Homeschooling!
C. Navarro
HENA 2009 Conference
Our first look at our HENA 2009 Conference schedule is now up on our website!
http://www.hena.us/conferenceSchedule.html
There are still a few things that are not yet scheduled and of course, there are bound to be a few changes between now and the conference, but I'm pretty confident that we've got most of it as it will stay, although as we get closer, more details will be added to the schedule, so keep checking back!
If you are homeschooling or just curious about homeschooling DON'T MISS THIS EVENT! We are open to all and support families that homeschool and children are welcome! Please feel free to forward this notice!
Browse the exhibit hall and listen to these speakers while your kids have fun in funshops or play areas:
Grace Llewellyn, Author of the Teenage Liberation Handbook, Director, Not Back to School Camp
Pam Sorooshian, Math Professor and board member of National Home Education Network
Sandra Dodd, Unschooling Advocate, along with her grown kids, Holly, Marty and Kirby.
Holly Craw, Director, Covenant Homeschool Resource Center
Caryn Gardner, Classical Homeschooling
Diane Jessen, Teaching by Connections
Scott Hermanson, ASU English Professor
Rachel Mendelson, Parent of two grown unschoolers in college and a six year old still at home unschooling
Joanne Townsend, Single Parent Homeschooler
Rebecca Atlee, now unschooling her kids after she was raised unschooled
PLUS more!
KIDS ACTIVITIES --- TALENT SHOW --- KIDS THEATER PRODUCTION --- FUN!
If you haven't registered yet, don't wait! Our early bird pricing is over, but we now have lower prices until February 15 only!! Kids are still the same low price they always are, but adult and family regular prices have been reduced as it makes our job so much easier if we can get your Name Tags created and ready well before the conference.
Register now at: http://hena.us/conferenceRegistration.html
As always, volunteers are free, so if you want to volunteer, please contact us and let us know! We still have a few openings.
We look forward to seeing you at the HENA 2009 conference on March 7, 2009 at ASU Memorial Union in Tempe!
Cindy Fox
HENA 2009 Conference Coordinator
www.hena.us/conference.html
602-692-8923
http://www.hena.us/conferenceSchedule.html
There are still a few things that are not yet scheduled and of course, there are bound to be a few changes between now and the conference, but I'm pretty confident that we've got most of it as it will stay, although as we get closer, more details will be added to the schedule, so keep checking back!
If you are homeschooling or just curious about homeschooling DON'T MISS THIS EVENT! We are open to all and support families that homeschool and children are welcome! Please feel free to forward this notice!
Browse the exhibit hall and listen to these speakers while your kids have fun in funshops or play areas:
Grace Llewellyn, Author of the Teenage Liberation Handbook, Director, Not Back to School Camp
Pam Sorooshian, Math Professor and board member of National Home Education Network
Sandra Dodd, Unschooling Advocate, along with her grown kids, Holly, Marty and Kirby.
Holly Craw, Director, Covenant Homeschool Resource Center
Caryn Gardner, Classical Homeschooling
Diane Jessen, Teaching by Connections
Scott Hermanson, ASU English Professor
Rachel Mendelson, Parent of two grown unschoolers in college and a six year old still at home unschooling
Joanne Townsend, Single Parent Homeschooler
Rebecca Atlee, now unschooling her kids after she was raised unschooled
PLUS more!
KIDS ACTIVITIES --- TALENT SHOW --- KIDS THEATER PRODUCTION --- FUN!
If you haven't registered yet, don't wait! Our early bird pricing is over, but we now have lower prices until February 15 only!! Kids are still the same low price they always are, but adult and family regular prices have been reduced as it makes our job so much easier if we can get your Name Tags created and ready well before the conference.
Register now at: http://hena.us/conferenceRegistration.html
As always, volunteers are free, so if you want to volunteer, please contact us and let us know! We still have a few openings.
We look forward to seeing you at the HENA 2009 conference on March 7, 2009 at ASU Memorial Union in Tempe!
Cindy Fox
HENA 2009 Conference Coordinator
www.hena.us/conference.html
602-692-8923
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