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Online Science Classes & Experiments for Kids

http://www.ScienceCastle.com - Do you want to improve your Science Marks? Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. Our online science classes will help you develop critical thinking skills!

Online Education Experiences #2: Opening Doors

Hear how this Master’s student learned valuable lessons from classmates, then applied them at work the next day. Find out more about online courses and online education for homeschoolers at www.TheJubileeAcademy.org

Student Testimonials
High School Students on online homeschooling.

RIT Online Learning Showcase

An overview of RIT Online Learning’s activities in 2006 includes the usability evaluation of Pachyderm, a product of the New Media Consortium (NMC), myCourses courseware management, Breeze web conferencing software, and blending learning

Edited by Mimi Rothschild
But what can I do when my homeschooled child has a temper tantrum, or refuses to eat a meal time, or refuses to do his schoolwork? What can we do to ease this and other types of behavior that appear rebellious to parents and may have become a favorite past time for the child as a means of gaining negative attention from the parents. Children have manyways o getting what they need. They can appear at times vary at step two at pulling out and using just the one that will be the most irritating at the precise moment. The child, through these tactics, is really saying that he wants to be the center of attention for a while.

Sometimes parents take the attention-getting antics of the child too seriously. What can parents do with these trying times,? A good principle to keep in mind is that there are some things that a parent must learn to it nor. A next-door neighbor of ours used to tell us. You see too much where your child is considered quite seeing so much. Some of the behavior problems of your child which were you so much will be taken care of by time and the process of the child growing up. This neighbor was not a child psychologist and yet we have found that he was giving a sound advice.

Things will go a lot smoother if we can understand of a six-year-old will usually act like a six year old, and that when the same child gets to be 10 years of age he will usually act like a 10-year-old. To say to the child don’t be childish is about as effective as saying don’t breed. All children can vote missed the mark at times. This is because they are children and need time to learn how to conform to the requirements of their social world, time to learn how to control their emotions, time to learn how to get along with other people, time to learn how to make the most time. If parents can remember this, it will help in keeping the child’s behavior in proper perspective.

When the homeschooling child’s behavior becomes too unruly. Too frequently, it might be a good idea to look at his daily routine. Does he have enough opportunity to play with other children? Is there enough variety in his day? Does he have space and equipment for active play? Is he fenced in with too many unnecessary restrictions? There is a difference between the child’s natural exuberance and his misbehavior. The youngster is by nature adventuresome, curious, energetic cop, inclined to explore. When he has these tendencies curbed by parents who are too restrictive, the child naturally responds in some form of a bilious behavior.

In coping with the behavioral patterns which say “I want your attentio”, homeschooling parents sense of humor can be indispensable. Give the child’s attention temporarily and then channeled the incident into something amusing.

Another means of avoiding complex problems over his unacceptable behavior is by setting up a set of rules for conduct which the child clearly understands. If the child can see with these rules are not simply that are made necessary for the welfare of all concerned. And by the very nature of the situation itself, he is much more likely to go along with them. A word of caution: if the rules are too numerous to rigid and unsuited to the child’s present level of development, he is likely to thumb his nose at them, figuratively and perhaps even literally.

In all of this effort to deal with the child who is missing the mark, the parent who can retain his emotional equilibrium, is the parent who is in the best position to win. In order to keep his emotional control, it may be necessary for the parent simply to walk away from the situation and not deal with it until he has cooled off and until he can get the proper situation into proper focus. Here again a sense of humor can be a valuable tool. A smiling parent who can see, and can lead the child to see, the ridiculousness of a situation can often change and emotion packed atmosphere into a serene one and can do it much more satisfactorily than a scowling and threatening parent.

There is no more dynamic power in a child’s life than the need for his parents wholehearted approval and recognition. The child may hide the truth so that it is not easy for a parent to perceive it. He will often relinquish some of his strongest and most wholesome urges in order to adhere to parental instructions, if he knows that disobedience for the sake of independents will gain for him the disapproval of his parents. Even the child’s “I hate you” is the desperate plea of the youngster who has a worthless peeling that he is so hopelessly trapped by his extreme need for approval and acceptance that it compels him to acquiesce to the domination of his parents. Because they are children, children will fail to measure up to our expectations sometimes. How we as parents behave when our children misbehave is the real test of parenthood. If we can pass the test most of the time, we can breathe a sigh of relief by feeling that we are normal parents after all.

A mother and her son were admiring some baby chickens. The son picked up one and held it so tightly that it almost smothered. It struggled a until it succeeded in escaping. Casually, the mother said, if you hold a cheek to tightly, it wants to get away. Try holding one gently. The next little chick nestled quietly in the Sun’s open palm, while the mother injected a timeless truth: you know, son. People are the same as chicks. If we told those we love too closely to us, Bailey. They will struggle for freedom. Hold them with open hands and they won’t feel smothered.

That mother had shared a truth that valuable football parents: when are chicks, our children, missed the mark, let us deal with them with the open hand of overall love, understanding, and honesty.

By Mimi Rothschild

I love to read! My idea of a phenomenal vacation would be to be left alone in a room somewhere with a pile of books and food delivered regularly to my bed. Here is a list of great literature that hopefully will help create a love of reading to your children.

Approved Summer Reading List – Montrose Christian Middle School

6th Grade
1. Christopher Paul Curtis – Bud, Not Buddy, The Watsons Go to Birmingham
2. Madeleine L’Engle – A Wrinkle in Time, Swiftly Tilting Plane
3. E.L. Konigsburg – From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler, Outcast of 19 Schuyler Place, Amy Elizabeth explores Bloomingdale’s, Silent to the Bone
4. Margaret Peterson Haddix – Running Out of Time, Among the Hidden, Take Offs and Landings, Escape from Memory
5. Paul Zindel – The Pigman, My Darling, My Hamburger
6. Karen Cushman – Matilda Bone, The Midwife’s Apprentice
7. Jules Verne – Around the World in 80 Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon, The Lighthouse at the End of the World
8. L.M. Montgomery – Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Green Gables

7th Grade
1. Katherine Paterson – Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved, Invisible Child, The Same Stuff as Stars
2. Elizabeth George Spear – The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Sign of the Beaver
3. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations, David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
4. Frances Hodgson Burnett – Little Princess, The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy
5. S.E. Hinton – The Outsiders, That was then, this is now, Tex
6. Avi – Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Fighting Ground, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
7. Margaret Peterson Haddix – Running Out of Time, Among the Hidden, Take Offs and Landings, Escape from Memory
8. Gary Paulsen – Hatchet, The River, Sarny

8th Grade
1. Lois Lowry – The Giver, Gathering Blue, Silent Boy, Number the Stars, Summer to Die
2. Jane Austen – Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
3. Louisa May Alcott – Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys, The Inheritance, Eight Cousins or the Aunt Hill, Rose in Bloom
4. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband
5. Karen Hesse – Music of the Dolphins, Out of the Dust, Witness
6. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Lost World

Parents are People by Tim Hawkins

Irritating by Tim Hawkins

Don’t Drink Beer by Tim Hawkins

Homeschooling kids love multimedia. Videos, games, interactivity, anything that moves. Here is a great collection of some educational videos to add to your homeschooling curriculum.

How Birds Fly

How to build the best paper airplane in the world

How To Play Beginner Guitar Chords

By: Mimi Rothschild

How would you feel if someone told you that you weren’t learning the “right” way? Would you be angry, inquisitive, or thank them for sharing their opinion?

Now, what if that someone was a judge and told you that your parents were committing a crime by homeschooling you? Sounds preposterous, right? Well, in California there are three judges that are trying to do that same very thing and label the parents that homeschool as criminals.

Criminal – one that has committed or been legally convicted of a crime.

What started as one family being told that homeschooling is illegal, has now escalated to the entire state of California. Homeschooling is now illegal throughout California. Children are being told they must go to a public school, or they will be labeled truants.

Truant – a person who stay away from school without permission.

What is to prevent this law from spreading throughout the nation? Honestly, no one knows.

So what can someone who is not a judge do to reverse the ruling? As a child, you are not allowed to vote until you are 18 year old, but that does not mean that you are powerless. America is a democratic nation. Your name, your voice, and your opinions matter.

Talk to your parents about this issue, and if they agree with you that homeschooling should not be illegal, show them www.ReverseTheRuling.com and ask them if you can sign the petition at http://www.reversetheruling.com/signthepetition.htm to Reverse the Ruling and show those in power that you believe homeschooling is something you value as an educational process that works best for you and your family.

With enough signatures, and enough voices, together we can reverse the ruling and give certain judges a history lesson on an educational process that has existed since the beginning of human existence.

By: Mimi Rothschild

“Greetings, Mr. Iscariot.” The bellhop said to the well-dressed man just entering the luxurious hotel. “Can I take your bags for you?”

“Sure. And, here, take this.” Mr. Iscariot handed the bellhop five pieces of silver, a handsome tip for such a meager task.

In his room, Mr. Iscariot ordered room service. He had bread and wine delivered, and with tip it costs him ten pieces of silver.

He sent his clothes down to be washed, ironed and folded. –Ten more pieces of silver for that.

He then left the hotel to see the surrounding town. With fare, a snack, and admission cost into the various museums and shops, he spent another five pieces of silver and had nothing really to show for it.

And with that, Mr. Iscariot had no silver left. That was all he had to his name, or was it? Everyone knew him. Some loved him, many others saw him as the reason they were free. He was never thanked though, beyond the thirty pieces of silver. But his name is still remembered over 2,000 years later for his actions and the 30 pieces of silver reward.

Judas Iscariot. The man who betrayed Jesus. Jesus forgave him. And today, I’d like to thank him for baring the cross of those pieces of silver and helping Jesus free me.

By: Karlie Margaret Houser

As a child, my brothers and I spent hours dreaming up games that, for no other reason, allowed us to compete with each other and share the joys of spending time together. One game I remember with great excitement was our version of boardwalk horseshoes, but with pennies. Here’s how you can play:

• First, collect lots of pennies – five a person should be plenty
• Space out rows of containers, the more the better – use baby food jars or cans with smooth rims (they give the best bounce)
• Pick a line on the floor as the stand-behind line – and to be fair, adjust it for the different ages of those playing
• Players line up in single file
• Each player gets five pennies and one penny at a time tries to pitch them into the containers
• After five tosses, collect the missed pennies and go to the back of the line
• It is then the next person’s turn
• Repeat with all contestants until one person is out of pennies

The first one to make all five of his/her pennies wins and can either keep all of the pennies in the jars or pass them out again for another game!

Play fair and have fun!