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FEATURES

• How to be your family's own guidance counselor. Worried about the whole college entrance game? We have a blueprint to help you through it.
• From Homeschool to Home Run. What one homeschooled boy learned by playing baseball.
• Who is a homeschooler's real "peer group"?
• A college instructor shares her take on the difference between homeschooled and public schooled students
• Law school at home? It's for real! Here's how you can join the bar without ever going off to school.
• "Day at Our House" diary . . . how a ten-year veteran does it
• Christian Youth Theater, 4-H, and AWANA . . . how homeschoolers have succeeded in all three

COLUMNS

• NEW! Janice vanCleave, the Science Lady, joins us to explain how daylight savings time works, plus hands-on science activities
• What does yor preschooler need to learn, and how can you teach it? By Melissa Morgan, co-author of Homeschooling on a Shoestring
• The alphabet -- foundation of modern Western culture. By education expert Sam Blumenfeld
• Educational tax credits and their implications for homeschoolers. By Home School Legal Defense Association Senior Counsel Christopher Klicka.
• How to measure and improve your child's reading comprehension. By Michael Maloney, founder of the Quinte Learning Centers in Canada and winner of the Canada Post National Educator Literacy Award.
• Homeschool and law-school graduate Michael Reitz explains how homeschoolers should respond to negative media attention.

NEWS

• Scholarships for homeschool exchange students
• Christian kids essay contest with a BIG prize

BOOK REVIEWS

• Beautiful mother/daughter books
• "I Saw the Angel in the Marble" by Elijah Company's Ellyn Davis
• A book of games and activities that build vocabulary
• Janice vanCleave's new "Science Around the World" book
• Two new books from the "Managers of Their Homes" lady

SOFTWARE REVIEWS

• Transcript Pro software gets your records ready to send to college admissions officials
• Ancient History from Primary Sources: A Literary Timeline
• Hot Dog Stand teaches basic economics to kids
• Simple software tht teaches world geography, the Shorter Catechism, and New Testament Greek vocabulary
• Zoombini Island Odyssey

SPOTLIGHT REVIEWS

• A simple introduction to computer science, written just for homeschoolers
• Want timelines and notebook starters for Bible, church history, and geography? This software does it for you.
• A course in leadership for teens and above

PLUS . . .

• Contests for subscribers
• Envelope Gallery of homeschooled kids' art
• Time-sensitive ads with special offers for fall curriculum

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