What's in Practical Homeschooling #62?

FEATURES

• Solving the "fake homeschooler" menace, by publisher Mary Pride
• What Is Classical Education? Expert Martin Cothran explains how it works. Includes "Scope & Sequence" chart of what to teach at each level.
• Homeschool Business. Want to start your own? Here are some ideas and resources.
• Teaching Kids to Teach. A "dramatic" experience shows how this can be done.
• "Day at Our House" diary from the family of a Greek professor and a brand-new adoptive family
• A girl who raises prize llamas, a new Eagle Scout, and the national champion Civil Air Patrol Color Guard . . . more homeschool success stories

COLUMNS

• Janice vanCleave, the Science Lady, explains what happens when a meteor(ite) hits the earth
• Want to save money and still provide a private-school-quality preschool education? Here's how. By Melissa Morgan, co-author of Homeschooling on a Shoestring
• 19th century communists were idealistic, unsuccessful . . . and anxious to help start a public school system in America for the first time. By education expert Sam Blumenfeld
• How to teach our kids good manners. By Home School Legal Defense Association Senior Counsel Christopher Klicka.
• How to measure and improve your child's grammar proficiency. By Michael Maloney, founder of the Quinte Learning Centers in Canada and winner of the Canada Post National Educator Literacy Award.
• Veteran homeschool dad Bill Pride answers the question, "What is the father's role in the homeschool?"

NEWS

• Spring courses in political involvement
• New online algebra tutorial
• Where to get free wildlife pamphlets
• Where to get free CliffsNotes
• How did American kids do in the Program of International Student Assessment (PISA) tests?
• Foreign student host families wanted!
• Christian comics contest

BOOK REVIEWS

• This book teaches kids to stop whining
• Pictorial guides to the Bible, Bible history, the Tabernacle, and Solomon's Temple
• Another pictorial guide to Christian Heritage in England
• All G.A. Henty's books . . . on CD-ROM!
• A family guide to Narnia

HOT PRODUCT REVIEWS

• Find out how famous ancient buildings and monuments might have been constructed, from a video series that covers: the Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Roman Colosseum, Inca buildings and bridges, and an Egyptian obelisk
• The new "Go Phonics" program
• A math game that should be easy to play if you like "Scrabble"
• Drafting skills for special students
• Play detective while learning reading comprehension

SOFTWARE REVIEWS

• A collection of programs to teach preschool skills
• A collection of programs for elementary math and reading
• Programs to give your kids a jump start on Spanish, French, German, and Italian

SPOTLIGHT REVIEWS

• A real "lab science" chemistry course for homeschoolers
• A classical education study course
• Rhetoric taught the "classical" way

PLUS...

• Contests for subscribers
• Envelope Gallery of homeschooled kids' art
• Ads with special offers