What's in Practical Homeschooling #105?

FEATURES

• The results of the 2012 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards™ are in! Find out which 207 educational products your fellow homeschoolers consider the BEST.
• It's Library Card Sign-up Month!
• Library skills are now "information literacy skills." Here's how to make them part of your curriculum, including a handy checklist.
• Does your homeschool have a mission statement? Here's how one can help your everyday decisions.
• How can you get your "wiggle worms" to sit still and enjoy a classical concert?
• Meet one awesome homeschool graduate.

COLUMNS

• Dr. Kuni Beasley's wife is earning an inexpensive degree from Harvard (yes, THAT Harvard) via distance learning. Find out about the little-known Harvard program that leads to a real Harvard degree, and how it's wide-open to homeschoolers.
• Felice Gerwitz and her CPA friend, Carol Topp, lead you through the steps of setting up recordkeeping for your child's micro business.
• Melissa Morgan explains how to get your baby ready for kindergarten at home
• Does your child hate and avoid reading? Diane Lockman shows 4 ways to turn that around.
• Best-selling science author Janice VanCleave will get your children outdoors collecting fall leaves and running these fun and simple experiments.
• World's greatest cleaning and decluttering expert Don Aslett reveals how you can find the time to declutter your life.
• Education expert Sam Blumenfeld offers some often-overlooked reasons why teaching French still makes sense.
• Veteran homeschool mom Anne Wegener helps us all find the balance between "home" and "homeschool."

NEWS

• New way to take your GED, and how to find it in your state
• Why is this homeschool graduate one of the headline speakers at a Library of Congress event?
• New poll has shocking results about Millennials and their increasing skepticism about religion

SPOTLIGHT REVIEW

• Two computer science courses, one for kids and one for teens. Both did great in this year's Reader Awards, BTW!

REVIEWS

• How to give your own child the advantages of tutoring, WITHOUT paying for it
• Everything you need to know about how to provide the best possible musical education to your child
• Software that teaches vocabulary
• Lots and lots of primers from this publisher, but are they any good?

PLUS...

• Contests for subscribers with awesome prizes!
• Envelope Gallery of kids' art
• Ads with special offers