Home School Online

Here are the top curriculum for homeschoolers:

A Beka – traditional workbook Christian curriculum. Demanding.
Alpha Omega LIFEPAC
Bob Jones
Calvert - Highly respected homeschool curriculum from a homeschool school.
Math U See – Only for younger grades and math.
Robinson
Saxon -
Singapore – New entrant. Just math. More for the gifted than average.
Sonlight
Time4Learning – Online learning system, PreK-8th.
Weaver
My favorite online homeschool curriculum is Time4Learning. A great paper-based homeschool curriculum is A Beka.  Sonlight is the most comprehensive homeschooling system.

These are all curricula which are different than home school schools.  Homeschool schools (not just the “cover schools”) are ones that actually take responsibility for grading and guiding your child, not just providing the curriculum for the parents to do it.  We will cover these homeschool schools soon…..

What are the leading homeschool magazines? How do they position? Which ones are online?

Homeschool Magazine – Mary Pride’s – circulation of? , frequency?, approach ?
Old SchoolHouse Magazine – Christian – large online and printed
Home Education Magazine – Most established & respected homeschool magazine
Classical Homeschooling Magazine
Eclectic Homeschool Online – homeschool magazine online.
Everything Homeschooling – monthly online homeschool magazine.
Family Times From Home Educators. Some articles available online.
Homeschool Digest A quarterly journal for homeschoolers with a few articles.
Homeschooling Horizons Magazine – A Canadian magazine published 10x year.
Homeschooling Information and Resource Guide Free publication.
Homeschooling Today – A publication and an online source of curriculum.
Jewish Home Educator’s Network – a quarterly newsletter.
Todays Learners – a websiter.
Kid’s Town – The magazine for homeschool kids by homeschool kids.
Learners Online Magazine – Helps teachers and home educators make the Net accessible.
Life Learning – Bimonthly about unschooling.
The Link – An Online newspaper by the Colfaxes and others.
Practical Homeschooling – Published six times a year.
The Teaching Home – Bimonthly Christian perspective of home education.

What a holiday?  I always find that its a good time to read the declaration of independence, read a historical novel, think about history, and watch documentaries. 

It’s exciting to find that I can still remember much of what I learned. While I get very fuzzy trying to recite the declaration, I can still give a decent impromptu talk on where the idea of “government right earned by the consent of the govern”. 

This was a new political idea, developed by John Locke the philosopher and first implemented by the US. 

It replaced the “Divine Right” to rule which had been justified in various forms for a millenium including it being  required to maintain order to keep life from being too “brutish and short” (Hobbes?)