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Use this website with Beverley Paine's Getting Started with Home Schooling - Practical Considerations to help you develop your own educational curriculum to suit your family situation, beliefs and lifestyle. The checklists can help you identify your children's current educational skill level in each subject area, as well as find any 'gaps' in their learning, plan what they need to cover or keep track of what has been learned. As you can appreciate this website is continuously under development... It's our aim to add pages on a regular basis in all curriculum areas: check back frequently. Feedback and comments welcome. We hope you enjoy the articles and activities and find the links and recommended resources useful. Over the next year we will be working our way through each subject area and writing fresh, new content which will also be reproduced in a reasonably priced handy reference booklet from our Practical Homeschooling Series. |
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Imagine this; eight-year-old Roger sits quietly, putting LEGO bricks together. April, two-years-older, doodles on the back of a paid bill, and Thomas, just turned four, cuddles sleepily on my lap. I'm reading The Big Friendly Giant by Roald Dahl. It's a funny book with some scary bits. We love the way Roald Dahl uses the words - his are definitely words that need to be heard out loud. They sing-song along and ignite the imagination. We see the story unfold, feel the emotions. The action seems real.
My voice, their imaginations and the magic of a great story teller... A night at home with the best entertainment in the world and it's free! Life couldn't get better than this.
Seek out great 'read alouds'. Some of these may be classics, like Tom Sawyer, Black Beauty, Moby Dick or Heidi . Don't neglect picture or chapter books. You can tell a great read aloud by how it sounds when you read it aloud to yourself in the library or bookstore. Don't be shy. Here's a tip to remember: if you ever have any doubts about whether you will like a book, try the read-aloud test. If the words don't flow, it's going to be rather heavy going and you may find many passages tedious to read, especially if you are reading the book aloud to the children. The best authors always read aloud their manuscript before sending it off to the publisher.
Don't forget non-fiction. Biographies, autobiographies, great historical epics or true stories about explorers, adventurers, inventors, artists and other famous and not so famous people are great ways to bring our wonderful world home to young people and excite them about learning in all the traditional curriculum areas. A good author will inject some vigour and pace into an account in such a way that engages the listener - any listener, not just a fellow adult. Don't underestimate your child's ability to follow a story simply because her reading skills aren't at the books level. Remember you are reading the book, not her!
Children's reading skills lag way behind their comprehension. That's why reading aloud to them is so important.
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia,
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are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families.
They began homeschooling in 1986 and three years later started the
South Australian Home Based Learners
network. Beverley continues to write for homeschooling newsletters
and magazines as well as hosting several websites dedicated to promoting
and supporting home education in Australia. Her aim is to demystify the
education process and make it accessible to all parents. Enjoy Beverley's
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Since the late 1990s Robin and Beverley have been building their home education
publishing business - Always Learning Books - from home with the help of their son Thomas.
"Education is not a preparation for life. Education is life itself." John Dewey
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