Archive for August, 2007

Eclectic Homeschool Online Newsletter, September 1, 2007

BevK August 30th, 2007

Excitement is in the air. A new home is starting to be created from a sow’s ear thanks to the many donations by homeschoolers from EHO. Tammy Cardwell’s benefit went very well and raised over $15,000, which should cover the renovation of their mini-warehouse into a new home. If you’d like to track progress on the project, visit Tammy’s blog, From a Cluttered Desk at http://tammycardwell.net/cluttered_desk/index.php. She’s turning into a regular do-it-yourself design whiz. Thank you for helping make this move possible.

This weekend is both Labor Day weekend and a wedding for our family, so the update has gone up a little early. We’re focusing on literature studies, but you may prefer to catch the last rays of summer sun while finishing your summer reading list. However, you spend your long weekend, I hope you find time to relax and enjoy your family.

Feature Articles

Source of Homeschool Prosperity
Have you spent weeks planning for your first day of homeschooling this fall? Have you purchased the books, planned your first science experiment, and bought up the necessary school supplies while they’re on sale? Excellent, but what about your attitude? Maribeth shares the importance of and a plan for preparing more than just the academics of the coming year.

Creating Literature Based Unit Studies - Horatio Hornblower
Classic children’s literature can inspire exploration in science, history, geography, and the arts. We offer the following unit study on the novel Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by CS Forester.

Featured Publisher: Time4Learning
The idea of computer-based learning has been around for awhile. However, interactive educational software of the high quality offered by Time4Learning, an award-winning online learning provider, has only recently become available to the homeschool market. Learn more about how this company can enhance your homeschool studies.

Focus: Literature Studies

Building Character Through Literature
How to use good literature to reinforce our character building in our children.

Shakespeare for All Ages
Many have never considered the possibilities that lie in the study of Shakespeare for younger children. Shakespeare, a prerequisite for high school literature classes, needn’t be reserved for a once in a lifetime wrestling match. Shakespeare’s stories can be enjoyed in their own right, and a gentle introduction to his vocabulary and writing style can be nurtured into a lifelong love of the melody of language.

Grouchy Ladybug - Literature Based Unit Study
This primary grade unit study demonstrates the variety of activities that a picture book can lead to in a literature based unit study.

High School Language Arts: Three Solutions
Preparing students for college means preparing them to think critically and write well. College courses require a lot of reading and a lot of writing whether that’s a three-page paper or an essay examination. The standard college admissions requirement is four credits in language arts. By that, they mean four years of work. There are a number of excellent curricula to help you accomplish this. I’ll look at three Christian curriculum solutions for average students, advanced students, and students who want a more flexible curriculum.

Reviews of Literature Resources: Curriculum and Books

Homeschool Resource Center - Literature Categories


Crafts Department

A Year In Crafts - September
NEW: Make a Stick Loom and a Southwest Weaving, Grow a Sweet Potato Creature, King Tut’s Portrait
MORE: Confetti Bookmarks, Make an Egyptian Tomb Model, Keepsake Books, The Art of Candle Making, Fall Banner, Fun With Eraser Clay

Science Department

Science Spot
Orchids date to time of the dinos
Ancient orchid pollen found attached to a bee trapped in amber suggests the “supermodels of the plant world” were blooming at the time of the dinosaurs.

New Reviews

* Beauty and the Beast & East of the Sun, West of the Moon (Audiobook)
* Charlotte in New York - picture book for art history studies
* Cinderella, Rumplestiltskin and Frog Prince (Audiobook)
* Courageous Parenting
* Famous Men of Greece - with color illustrations - Memoria Press
* Famous Men of the Middle Ages - with color illustrations - Memoria Press
* Famous Men of the Middle Ages Student Guide - Memoria Press
* Famous Men of the Middle Ages Teacher Guide with Key - Memoria Press
* Fields with God - devotional
* Setting Limits: How to Raise Responsible, Independent Children by Providing CLEAR Boundaries
* A Speaker’s Guidebook: Text and Reference, 3rd Edition
* A Speaker’s Guidebook: Instructor’s Resource Manual
* A Speaker’s Guidebook: Test Bank
* Spirit, Courage and Resolve: A Special Olympics Athlete’s Road to Gold

EHO Resource Center

Featured Resource September

The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading
by Jessie Wise, Sara Buffington
$19.77 - 34% Off
Too many parents watch their children struggle with early reading skills—and don’t know how to help. Phonics programs are too often complicated, overpriced, gimmicky, and filled with obscure educationese. The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading cuts through the confusion, giving parents a simple, direct, scripted guide to teaching reading—from short vowels through supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. This one book supplies parents with all the tools they need.
Over the years of her teaching career, Jessie Wise has seen good reading instruction fall prey to trendy philosophies and political infighting. Now she has teamed with dynamic co-author Sara Buffington to supply parents with a clear, direct phonics program—a program that gives them the know-how and confidence to take matters into their own hands.

New Resources
New in the Homeschool Publishers section of the resource center:

The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History
by Jennifer Armstrong, Roger Roth
$23.07 – 34% Off
This magnificent treasury tells the story of America through 100 true tales. Some are tales of triumph—the midnight ride of Paul Revere, the Wright brothers taking to the air, Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. Some are tales of tragedy—the fate of the Donner party, the great fire in Chicago, the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens. There are stories of inventors and athletes, and abolitionists and artists, stories about struggling for freedom—again and again, in so many ways.
With full-color illustrations on nearly every page and short, exciting stories, this book is perfect for browsing by the entire family. Notes at the end of each story direct readers to related stories, and a guide to thematic story arcs offers readers (and teachers) an easy way to follow their particular interests throughout the book.

Night Sky Atlas (Spiral-bound)
by DK Publishing
$13.59 – 32% Off
Revised with a new CD-ROM, this entry in DK’s successful series of informative and visually compelling atlases explains how to see and read the night sky at all latitudes for a worldwide audience.

Shipwreck Detective
by Richard Platt, Duncan Cameron
$18.24 – 27% Off
This activity-packed journal of a diver’s quest for hidden treasure follows Duncan Cameron deep under the sea as he searches for mysterious lost gold. The story unfolds as Duncan dives through a series of shipwrecks, recording every possible clue to the riddle that will guide him to the riches. Readers solve the mystery right alongside our hero, as Shipwreck Detective challenges them to discover both the fact and the fiction of all that lurks beneath the sea.
Covers all aspects of shipwrecks, from ship histories to equipment and navigation
Gripping fictional narrative invites readers to join the treasure hunt
Includes sketches, full-color photographs, charts, and hand-written journal entries
Real compass embedded in cover

Journeys in Time: A New Atlas of American History
by Susan Buckley, Elspeth Leacock, Rodica Prato
$15.00
Americans have always been a people on the move. Journeys in Time maps twenty journeys that have shaped our national past. These are stories of change of pilgrims and pioneers, soldiers and children, explorers and adventurers building new lives and finding new worlds. From a cabin boy who sailed with Columbus to a Union soldier and a young migrant farm worker, these journeys changed the lives of those who took them.

Mr. Popper’s Penguins Study Guide
by Rebecca Gilleland
$16.99
This study guide provides easy-to-use, reproducible lessons on literary terms, comprehension and analysis, critical thinking, related scriptural principles, vocabulary, activities, plus a complete answer key. Examines the book from a Christian perspective.
Book Description: Mr. Popper is a house painter and a dreamer who loves the Antarctic and wishes he had traveled before settling down. Though his work barely brings in enough money to buy food for his family, they are happy. But Mr. Popper is a dreamer of big dreams, and when an explorer sends Mr. Popper a penguin from the South Pole, one turns out to be not enough. But how will the family manage 12 penguins when they can hardly feed themselves?

All-In-One Curriculum for the Pilgrim’s Progress with CDROM
by John Bunyan
$39.99
Use this enjoyable new tool to help your loved ones walk in the footsteps of Jesus! This large-format book contains the entire original text of The Pilgrim’s Progress with John Bunyan’s own scripture annotations, plus a special photo-illustrated section about the man who penned this classic … while in jail. But that’s not all! Within its illustrated pages are “Truths to Ponder” for young children and “Digging Deeper” questions for older students and adults. Also includes activity ideas, character studies and commentary regarding the unique figures that Pilgrim encounters during his journey to the Celestial City. The elements designed into this one-of-a-kind book create greater comprehension and make the text an excellent homeschool curriculum or adult study for small groups. Includes the reproducible student pages on CD-ROM.

Thank for buying your homeschool resources, curriculum, and other purchases from Amazon.com through the Eclectic Homeschool Online Resource Center. The earnings we receive from the sales in our store go directly to paying the bills for hosting and web services we use. We currently have a number of improvements we’d like to make to the website, but these are still on our wish list for lack of funding. By entering Amazon through our store, you make sure that all your purchases, even those not specifically listed in our store, are credited to our account. So the next time you plan to buy something big, even though it’s not homeschool related, enter through are store using our search box or any of our store links, and you’ll be blessing us and the homeschool community. What could be better? Shopping as a good deed.

Look for our Shop Amazon - Fund EHO Link posted throughout the EHO website or visit the EHO Resource Center main page at http://eclectichomeschool.org/store/

Eclectic Homeschool Resource Directory

The EHO Resource Directory is a great place to find small companies that focus on one aspect of homeschooling. If you’re looking for something new or a little different, try browsing our Directory.

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Eclectic Homeschool Online
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More German Homeschoolers Face Jail

BevK August 30th, 2007

Remember to pray for those who choose to homeschool in Germany. They’re facing the same struggle that was won in the United States years ago.

Tilman and Dagmar Neubronner of Bremen, Germany have a choice to make: pay a €6000 fine Thursday that they can’t afford, send their sons Moritz and Thomas to school against the wishes of the boys, or continue homeschooling and risk jail.


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How it should be done

BevK August 30th, 2007

Many think that their elite suburban public high schools or Christian schools are the perfect answer to their children’s education. Rod Dreher shares how they turned to homeschooling until they found a school that met their needs for both academics and moral culture. They were motivated by a documentary.

There are two kinds of parents: those who have seen the 1999 PBS documentary The Lost Children of Rockdale County, and those who have yet to be freaked out by it.

Our firstborn was barely home from the hospital when my wife and I first saw the show, which investigated a syphilis outbreak in a prosperous suburban high school. It was a damning portrait of a peer culture run wild and well-meaning parents whose indulgent child-raising created a moral quagmire for their kids. When the final credits rolled, we had no doubt that we were going to homeschool.

Scared into homeschooling, they still weren’t homeschooling with a homeschooling lifestyle perspective. When they found a school that met their needs, they opted out of homeschooling. Not all and I believe not most homeschoolers are homeschooling purists who believe that homeschooling is foundational to the way they live their lives. As school choice broadens, especially with online schools expanding, I can see that homeschooling will come to mean many things, but also that a large number of parents who homeschool to provide better academics or to keep their children safe will choose another option when it becomes available and affordable.

I’m a dyed-in-the-wool homeschooler. I’ve got four years to go to graduate the last of my five children, and God willing, that’s exactly what I’ll do. My children wouldn’t be who they are today if we hadn’t had them home. You may take a mother’s claims of her children’s extraordinary capabilities with a grain of salt, but my children are brilliant people. I don’t mean that in an academic brainy kind of way, although they aren’t slouches in that department. They’re people that other people enjoy being with, working with, and trust to help them with their problems. I think that’s because they were home where their strengths were nurtured and their weaknesses weren’t ridiculed. We’re a tight knit family that remain tight knit even across hundreds of miles. Homeschooling as a lifestyle works.

Vouchers Subsidize Parents, Not Schools

BevK August 30th, 2007

Paul T. Mero has a valid point to make about why education vouchers for everyone is the only fair way to provide for education without giving preferential treatment to some.

My neighbor hates school vouchers because he does not believe that taxpayers should subsidize families choosing to send their children to private schools. He often says, “Utah families already have school choice. They can send their kids to public, private, or homeschools. Why should I pay for the personal choices of families to send their children to private schools?”

To which I respond that my wife and I pay large amounts of state income taxes each year to subsidize the education of neighbor children even though we homeschool our own.

“Yes, but that’s your choice,” he replies. Well, no, that’s not my choice alone. By law my taxes go to support public education, not homeschools. When you think about it, neighbor, my wife and I are actually the better education citizens–we don’t burden taxpayers with our children’s education, and we willingly pay for the public education of children in other families.

“Fine. But I don’t think that we should subsidize private school education,” he retorts. But it’s OK to subsidize public school education? “That’s different!” How? “We have an obligation to give every child a good education. And, besides, paying for public education is not a subsidy.”

That is what homeschoolers and private schoolers do. They pay for their own children’s education and pay for their neighbors children to go to public school. Vouchers would be in a set amount. So, even if a parent chose a $20,000 a year school to send his children to, that school wouldn’t be get $20,000 in a voucher. The parent would have to supplement the voucher amount.

I don’t see the problem in that.

South Carolina’s Online School - Two Tiers - Public and Not Public

BevK August 30th, 2007

Homeschoolers are apparently not taxpayers in the state of South Carolina. We’re gonna offer a program online, but homeschoolers and those in private school will have to pay for their materials while public schoolers get it free.

on May 17 creating the South Carolina Virtual School Program as an occasion for more students–especially higher-performing ones–to access academic courses their schools are unable to provide.

Detractors see it as a “camel’s nose under the tent” effort by a governor who has worked tirelessly to expand school choice in the state, which currently offers parents very few options.

Some legislators voted against the bill because they oppose school choice, even though homeschooled and privately educated students who enroll in the online courses will likely be required to pay for the curriculum materials that public school participants will receive for free. South Carolina education officials say they are still working out some of the details, including any additional fees charged nonpublic school students.

Some legislator have sense…but many are tightly bound to the old paradigm that the teacher’s unions cling to.

“When the debate turned into a school choice debate, those who were opposed to school choice said ‘no’ and tried to turn it into an ‘us-versus-them’ situation,” said Denver Merrill, communications director for South Carolinians for Responsible Government, a free-market group based in Columbia. “Thankfully, there are a number of common-sense legislators who were willing to fight for this because it offers learning opportunities for more kids.”

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Not so easy for home-schoolers to stretch wings

BevK August 20th, 2007

Hodding Carter II has this dire comment to make about homeschooling:

My concern about our educational system is for those who aren’t part of it - those who are home-schooled:

An estimated 1.7 million to 2.5 million will be taught at home by a parent this year. Not letting kids try out their own wings after we’ve provided the right roots will disadvantage them later in life.

Laura Derrick’s, president, National Home Education Network, response hits the nail on the head:

“Children can’t fly if they aren’t free, and they aren’t free if the conformity of a classroom is the only acceptable path to education.”

If you believe that homeschoolers are never allowed to test their wings, you know very little about homeschoolers. My children have always amazed me with their confidence. Adults who interact with them for the first time often complement us on what great kids they are. My oldest took her first community college class at the age of 16. A class icebreaker required the class members to line up by age. She went to the end of the line automatically believing correctly that she was the youngest. She was questioned on this by several class members who were surprised when she announced she was just 16. She had no problem stretching her wings in adult classroom receiving an A in class that required a lot of interaction among class members. That’s just one story about my oldest. I have four other amazing (if I say so myself — and I do) children.

Homeschooling an Autistic Child

BevK August 20th, 2007

Lisa Jo Rudy shares how their family decided to homeschool their 11-year-old son with autism.

Some schools are already back in session. Others will be starting up in just a week or two. This year, for the first time, our family will be taking a whole new direction. We’ll be homeschooling our 11-year-old son with autism! This is a big new move for us, and one that I hope will lead to some interesting articles, interviews and opportunities.

Calendar flexibility a great homeschool benefit

BevK August 20th, 2007

Susie Aasen discusses the flexibility that homeschoolers have when determining their annual homeschooling calendar. If you’re new to homeschooling, she offers great advice on how to develop a lifestyle of learning. Taking control over your homeschooling calendar is one step.

S Korea: Home Schooling to Be Legalized in Year 2010

BevK August 20th, 2007

I’m certainly glad that the right to homeschool in the United States was secured for us by past heroes of the movement. I’m not sure I would have had the guts to face jail as some did. The struggle is ongoing in other countries around the world. When I see what South Korea is doing, I can only imagine that the delay in allowing homeschooling means they need time to create a bureaucratic tracking system and establish the rules for homeschooling. This doesn’t bode well for homeschooling in South Korea.

In 2010, a test system for home schooling will be introduced prior to its official launch in 2015. The system will allow parents to teach their children at home without sending them to school. Scholastic credits will be given to children if they pass the appropriate exams.

Hat Tip: Homeschool Buzz

Eclectic Homeschool Online Newsletter, August 15, 2007

BevK August 15th, 2007

Tammy Cardwell and all the volunteers at the Eclectic Homeschool Online would like to thank everyone who donated to the Tammy Cardwell Benefit. I know that you’ll receive a blessing from the thank you package of free books and workshops, but it will be nothing compared to the blessing you’ve been to Tammy and her family. The goal of $15,000 was met. The total will be announced once all the checks that were mailed have been received. They will have enough money to turn the mini-warehouse into a mini-home. God is blessing in other ways. They’ve been able to get substantial deals on some of the construction supplies and many people in the Houston area are donating time and expert services to the Cardwells. Thank you and God bless each of you.

Thinking about mini-homes sort of ties into (okay it’s a stretch) our theme for the month: The “Home” in Homeschooling. When I told Maribeth Spangenberg what our theme was about, she sat down and wrote a short article that every mother can relate to about laundry duty. We’ve also revised a past Homeschool in the Kitchen study that was pulled off line several years ago. It’s full of ideas for all the learning in all the academic areas in the kitchen. As the new school year starts, many parents will take the plunge into homeschooling. John Edelson addresses putting homeschooling into the “home” in “What is an “Accidental Homeschooler?” ” Our advice to beginning homeschoolers: don’t forget that before homeschool there was just home. Rather than turn your home into a schoolhouse, turn your lives into learning adventures.

Feature Articles

Homeschooling in the Kitchen
You’ll often hear homeschoolers talk about how there are so many things a child can learn from the every day activities that go on in the kitchen. Using measuring cups and spoons to teach about fractions immediately springs to mind, but would you believe that you could easily spend an entire year on ‘kitchen studies’ and do so much more than just cook? As I started to do the research for this article, I didn’t realize all the avenues one could wander down if you wanted all your studies to center around the kitchen. I’ve put together a list of places you could go, and with the additional resource lists, I’m sure you will find many more little side streets to tempt you into new paths.

What is an “Accidental Homeschooler”?
While some families know from the start that they want to homeschool, others arrive somewhat “accidentally”. These are families who had initially put their children in traditional schools. Then, “something” happens. Perhaps it happens over and over or different “things” happen. Sometimes there are a few classroom or school changes but it still is not working. The problems can be with other students, the school culture, the academics, or even the faculty and staff. But over time, it becomes clear that traditional schools are not working and they become convinced that the available schools are unacceptable.

The Clink of Coins
Do you find yourself experiencing déjà vu when you find yourself yet again moving clothes from washing machine to dryer. There were times when I was the young mother of five that I wondered if my life would be made up of the events sandwiched between my time spent folding clothes in the basement. Maribeth gives new and old moms a beautiful perspective on the daily grind.

Focus:The “Home” in Homeschooling

Cooking up a Cultural Lesson in the Homeschool Kitchen
The United States has many cuisines all clamoring for attention. It’s easy in most towns and cities to find a variety of ethnically oriented restaurants including Chinese, Mexican, and Italian. Large to medium sized metropolitan areas have many more cultures represented. Eating out at an ethnic restaurant is always an adventure. The tastes and smells, the decorations, and the staff of the restaurant provide a glimpse into the ethnic origins of the food served. If you live in small town America, your access to anything beyond those cultures listed above is rare. You can bring that experience to your home by exploring various cultural cuisines on your own.

Heirloom Recipes - Special Breakfasts
Family time, often we think of family time spent around the dining room table playing board games or feasting at holidays. Breakfast is another great way to spend family time together before the start of a busy day or a lazy summer day. Special breakfast time means special breakfast recipes. We have several that should turn your breakfasts into special times.

For more recipes, visit the Eclectic Homeschool Online Cookbook.

EHO Advice
Question: I’d like to teach my daughter to sew, but I never learned myself. My mother-in-law is going to loan us her sewing machine, and she has tried to help, but I find her explanations way over my head. Help!

Home Economics and Lifeskills Reviews
* Cleaning & Organization
* Cooking
* Crafts and Sewing
* Gardening
* Interior Design
* Money Management
* Pet Care

Industrial Arts Reviews
* Carpentry
* Home Repair and Construction

Home & Family Resources
This section of our resource center has everything from sewing and crafts to home maintenance. You’ll find resource gems like:
Larry Burkett’s How Our House Works
by Ed Strauss, Ed Letwenko, Larry Burkett
$12.34 - 5% Off
Kids know their own home—from that third step that squeaks to the speed the water drains out of the bathtub. Give them How Our House Works, and your kids will be delighted to discover a fun book that helps them delve even deeper into what is already so familiar. Take your children on a tour into the various dimensions of building, maintaining, and running a home. They will have so much fun with the jaunty poem and busy pictures that they’ll forget they are even learning. Meanwhile, you will be pleased to watch them grow into careful stewards of the part of God’s world that is most important to them—their homes.

Science Department

Science Spot
Skeletal Discovery: Bone cells affect metabolism
A protein made by bone cells has a surprising influence on energy metabolism, and could have a role in treating diabetes.

New Reviews

* Ancient China: To the Great Wall… and Beyond
* Basic Greek in 30 Minutes a Day
* Crazy 4 Math
* Elijah: As It Was: The Bible Told by the People Who Lived It: DVD
* Groovin’ for Heaven Volume 2: The Bassist and Contemporary Worship (DVD)
* Hold You, Mommy: Moments with God for Moms on the Go
* Homeschooling at the Speed of Life: Balancing Home, School, and Family in the Real World
* Math on the Level 9’s Down Math Facts (set)
* Math on the Level Complete (pre-K through pre-Algebra) Curriculum
* Oceanology Scroll (ebook)
* The Reluctant Dragon (Audiobook)
* Secrets of Successful homeschooling: You Have What it Takes to Homeschool! (Audiobook)
* The Shining Sword
* The Three R’s
* The Well-Integrated Homeschool (Audiobook)

EHO Resource Center

Featured Resource August
How & When to Tell Your Kids About Sex: A Lifelong Approach to Shaping Your Child’s Sexual Character
by Stanton L. Jones, Brenna B. Jones
$14.95 - 32% Off
In How and When to Tell Your Kids About Sex, Stan and Brenna Jones offer help for establishing a biblical view of sexuality and talk about why that is so important in today’s “value-neutral” society. Building on a biblical foundation, they discuss how to talk with your children about sexual issues and when it’s appropriate to tell them what.
You’ll find important, helpful information on concerns your children face from infancy through adolescence. With stark honesty and practical suggestions, they address:
* Building a Christian understanding of sex and sexuality
* Handling sexual curiosity and sexual play (infancy through kindergarten)
* Inoculating your child against destructive moral messages (pre-puberty)
* How and when to explain sexual intercourse (pre-puberty)
* Preparing for the physical changes of puberty (pre-puberty)
* Preparing for dating: dealing with romance and sexual attraction (puberty)
* Building moral discernment about petting (adolescence)
* Encouraging a commitment to chastity (adolescence)
* What to tell your child about contraception (adolescence)
* What to do if you’re getting a late start telling your kids about sex

New Resources

Coming to America Cookbook: Delicious Recipes and Fascinating Stories from America’s Many Cultures
by Joan D’Amico, Karen Eich Drummond
$11.66 - 22% Off
Who knew culture could be so delicious? In THE COMING TO AMERICA COOKBOOK, you’ll discover how America’s immigrants have lived and dined over the centuries. This scrumptious survey of a wide variety of cuisine—Mexican, Irish, Chinese, Moroccan, Turkish, Ethiopian, Nigerian, and many more—blends together an appetizing mix of kid-friendly recipes and fun food facts throughout each chapter.

Gadgetology: Kitchen Fun with Your Kids, Using 35 Cooking Gadgets for Simple Recipes, Crafts, Games, and Experiments
by Pam Abrams
$10.17 - 32% Off
Getting kids involved in the kitchen at an early age is a great, hands-on way to introduce them to new foods and teach them valuable skills. Gadgetology makes it fun. Kids and parents will love spending time together with this user-friendly, full-color activity book, making everything from Circle Snacks and edible log cabins with a corer to Green Bean-Sesame Sauce Toss and homemade sidewalk chalk with a mortar and pestle. It’s chock-full of recipes, experiments, crafts, and games using 35 everyday kitchen gadgets from an apple peeler to a salad spinner to a whisk.

Kitchen Science
by Shar Levine, Leslie Johnstone
$9.95
Science basics start right at home for children with this fun introduction to the kitchen laboratory. There, simple and safe activities will reveal the excitement of science in an enjoyable, unintimidating atmosphere. And bright drawings and photos add to the kid appeal. What children learn as they cook up some cool experiments will set the stage for science success all through school. All it takes are some common materials, such as applesauce, coffee filters, coarse pepper, and a candy or two. Colorful “cabbage soup” teaches them about chemical reactions, and they’ll also learn by watching balloons inflate themselves with the help of a little yeast, making eggs “burp,” and more. There are even activities to do in restaurants while waiting for the meal.

What’s Cooking: The History of American Food
by Sylvia Whitman, Trish Marx
$29.27
Discover the foods that Americans of every era have planted, harvested, and prepared. From the corn that Native Americans grew and ate to modern-day fast food burgers and frozen meals, a diverse variety of foods are explored in this tasty volume.

Hasty Pudding, Johnnycakes, and Other Good Stuff: Cooking in Colonial America
by Loretta Frances Ichord
$8.95
Presents colonial food preparation with a look at the influences of available ingredients, cooking methods, and equipment. Includes recipes and appendix of classroom cooking directions.

More Homeschool in the Kitchen Resources

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Eclectic Homeschool Resource Directory

Four new listings have been added to our Resource Directory, which brings our new total to 549 listings in 87 categories. If you’re interested in listing your business in the directory, please visit the following page to submit a commercial or non-commercial website. http://eclectichomeschool.org/info/submit_listing.asp

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The Lord bless and keep you,
Beverly Krueger
Eclectic Homeschool Online
http://eclectichomeschool.org

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