What's in Practical Homeschooling #67?

FEATURES

• How a team made up almost entirely of homeschoolers won the "World Series" of high-school robotics competitions.
• Looking for a family business? Interested in music? We profile how an amazingly different piano method can become the core of your own piano teaching business.
• Co-op classes. Distance learning. What if someone combined the two?
• "Day at Our House" diaries: an Illinois family's "semi-normal" day, and how an Alabama family includes Homeschool Fair projects and extracurricular activities in their day.
• Nomination form for our 2006 Reader Awards included!

SUCCESS STORIES

• A winner of the Society of Professional Journalists essay contest
• Two sisters who won essay and poetry contests--including one that earned a free Young Eagles Flight Camp experience!

COLUMNS

• NEW COLUMN! Inventor Frank Armbruster has an unusual slant on what parents can do to encourage their children to read.
• NEW COLUMN! Mary Biever shares the unexpected lesson she learned when her son joined 4-H.
• Home School Legal Defense Association Senior Counsel Chris Klicka explains why your religious freedom isn't what it used to be . . . and what we can do to recover it.
• Homeschool success story Austin Webb has a perfect 1600 score on the SAT. He was named the top all-around National Merit Schola. He's a Presidential Scholar, was accepted at multiple top universities, is the receipient of a $10,000 research summer scholarship BEFORE he even started college . . . I could go on! This time he explains how to pick extracurricular activities sthat enhance your college chances.
• What do kids have to learn in high-school geometry, and how can you teach it? M.I.T. graduate Bill Pride shows the way to parents who aren't math whizzes.
• Janice vanCleave, the Science Lady, explains how joints work.
• How to help your preschoolers learn history and love doing it, by Melissa Morgan, co-author of Homeschooling on a Shoestring
• Ever wonder how kids managed to be taught before public education? Education expert Sam Blumenfeld introduces one forgotten institution: the non-elite private academies.
• Learn how to measure and improve keyboarding fluency, from Canada Post Literacy Educator of the Year Michael Maloney.

NEWS

• Good news about homeschoolers' ACT scores.
• How to enter the Arbor Day Poster Contest.
• Your kids can strike a blow for medical research . . . by doing math problems? Yes!
• It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a project called "Raptors in the City."
• Compete for up to $3,000 in the 2006 Christian Worldview Essay Contest.
• Big news: Researchers have found out that kids learn through play. Duh!
• How to help homeschool victims of the hurricanes.

HOT PRODUCT REVIEWS

• A literature programs that uses books *you
• choose
• A DVD that teaches kids how to drum using a kitchen stool instead of a drum
• A Christian early learning program
• Yummy new craft kits

SPOTLIGHT REVIEW

• Nest Family Entertainment's animated Bible and hero DVDs

PLUS...

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