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Welcome to the April 2011 issue of Home-School News,
brought to you by Practical Homeschooling magazine
and our Homeschool World website at
www.home-school.com!
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 Mary Pride, Publisher
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1. OUTRAGE: Kids of former PHS columnist to be denied PhDs?
One of the first columnists in our Practical Homeschooling magazine was Dr. Art Robinson, whose self-study "Robinson Method" remains to this day one of the most popular in the homeschool community. So we were shocked to read a story on WorldNetDaily which reported that THREE of Dr. Arthur Robinson's children were on the verge of being tossed out of their Oregon State University graduate school programs, and their research and projects taken by others. The way it works, if a grad school expels you late into your PhD studies, you basically lose years of your life. It's not like the undergraduate college years, where often everything except the last year of a program is transferable elsewhere. And if the work, software, and hardware you built is simply taken over by others, you basically have to start from scratch anyway. Not to mention the very serious hit to your reputation, which will follow you lifelong. So why would three students from the same family be facing removal from their grad school studies -- all at the same institution and all at once? For the full story, including links to the WND articles, click here. To see the site Dr. Robinson set up about this situation, which includes contact information for the appropriate people as well as documents verifying Joshua Robinson's status, click here. |
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3. FACEBOOK: Now you can follow Practical Homeschooling on Facebook!
Thanks so much to those of you who "Liked" our new Practical Homeschooling page on Facebook. Through your help, we were able to secure the Facebook link
facebook.com/PracticalHomeschooling.
And for those of you who haven't found us yet on Facebook, stop by and visit!
We also have a Twitter feed to our home page. You can also follow us at @prachomeschool or (via SMS) by texting follow prachomeschool to 40404 (USA folks only; different codes required for other countries).
We'll be tweeting about the latest developments in education and homeschooling, as well as new features and goodies on our site. So add us to your Twitter feed! |
4. PRIZE: Last chance to enter our PHS #96 Story Contest!
If you're a Practical Homeschooling subscriber, here is some good news.  We have extended the deadline for the issue #96 Story Contest to this Wednesday, April 6.10 kids with the best stories will win the 50 Brain Games kit from EDC Publishing. And believe it or not, we're short on entries, so your child has a GREAT chance of winning! The card set contains fifty 4 x 6" cards with brain teasers on them and three answer cards, plus a write-on/wipe-off marker. A problem is posed on the back side of each card with a space to work out the answer. You can wipe the marker off again after you are done so that someone else can try the same problem. Here is the story starter:It's the most amazing birthday party ever! Tell us all about it. The party could be for you, a friend or relative, or a historical or fictional character. The party budget is unlimited, so let your imagination soar! Your entry must be 50 to 300 words long, must be your original work, and must not have been submitted or published elsewhere. To enter, go to our site's Contact form. Select "Entry for current story contest" from the pull-down menu. At the top of the Message box, enter your name, address, phone, and age with your entry. (We need all this so we can, first, compare entries to those of kids with similar ages and second, so we can mail the prize if you win. UPS requires phone #s.) Then enter the story itself and submit your entry. Winners will be announced in the Apr/May/June 2011 issue of Practical Homeschooling.
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5. TOOTHPICK: Last chance to enter our PHS #96 Toothpick Contest!
If you're a Practical Homeschooling subscriber, here is even MORE good news.  We have also extended the deadline for the issue #96 Toothpick Contest to this Wednesday, April 6.As PHS subscribers know, we hide a "toothpick" in every issue - and if you find it, you might win a prize! Ten prizes are handed out each issue. This issue, we apparently did such a great job of hiding the toothpick that few of you found it. This means that if you find it NOW you have a great chance to win! And here's the prize: The Usborne 30 Healthy Things to Cook and Eat cookbook. This 64-page beautifully illustrated book contains recipes and detailed, illustrated step-by-step instructions for 30 healthful entrees from soup to dessert. To enter, go to our site's Contact form. Select "Entry for current Toothpick Contest" from the pull-down menu. At the top of the Message box, enter your name, address, and phone. (We need all this so we can mail the prize if you win. UPS requires phone #s.) Then enter the issue number and page with the toothpick in the Message area and submit your entry. Winners will be announced in the Apr/May/June 2011 issue of Practical Homeschooling.
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6. SUBSCRIBE NOW and make 2011 your BEST homeschool year EVER!
Not a subscriber yet? Then sign up now! In your first issue, you'll find:
- What 211 homeschool products and curricula won our 2011 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards?
- How to be a homeschool superstar
- 25 top tips to prepare your preschool kids for academic and life success
- 25 tips for parents of middle school students
- Tiger Mom or Pussycat Mom?
- How to give your kids a "Grammar Camp"
- Having a bad day? How to make it the BEST homeschool day ever!
- And so much more!
Click here to see what's in the current issue. Click here to subscribe. Click here to renew an existing subscription. |
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7. THE WAY HOME: 25th Anniversary Edition is finally here
 For 25 years, The Way Home has been the "go to" book for Christian moms who want to prepare their daughters for the world of marriage and children.
Going phrase by phrase through the Bible's "mystery" passage, Titus 2:3-5, The Way Home explains what it means to love our husbands, to love our children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be "homeworkers," to be kind, and to be subject to our husbands (think Second in Command, not Doormat) . . . and why it all matters.
Expect your ideas to be challenged! Discover a whole new dimension to "women's work."
This just-released 25th Anniversary Edition adds a new Preface and Afterthoughts dealing with such topics as Home Business, College, Fruitfulness, how to raise good kids in spite of TV and the Internet, and more.
Autographed copies are exclusively available from Home Life. Request autograph in the "Comments" field when you get to Checkout, when ordering online from us. Buy one for yourself, and more for your daughters!
Also available on Amazon (the reviews are for the original edition) and on Kindle (please write a review if you order one!). |
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8. INFO: New articles on our website
We frequently add new articles to our site. These are actually "old" (but still extremely useful) articles from past issues of Practical Homeschooling magazine.
We only have time to prepare and post about 1/4 of what's in any given issue, plus it will be about 5 years before we get around to posting some of what's in our current issue. So it's a great way to tiptoe into homeschooling, but no substitute for an actual
Practical Homeschooling subscription!
 | | Forensic Science class with instructor Diana Toole |
Here are just a few of the articles we recently added:
To read these, and hundreds of other great articles, click here.
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9. Write a Day at Our House diary!
Thanks so much to those of you who responded to this request in our last e-letter.
It's easier than you think to get published in a national homeschool magazine. We're always looking for more folks who will share their homeschool day with us.
This is for our "Day at Our House" feature in Practical Homeschooling magazine.
Just keep a diary for one day, type it into your computer, and email it to
inbox@home-school.com.
Either send it as the body text of your email, or as an MSWord ".doc" attachment.
Please put "Day at Our House" in the subject line.
Please also attach a nice, clear, color photo of your family. If possible, show the kids in action, but if not, a regular posed photo is fine. Straight from the digital camera is best -- let us do the color correcting and resizing!
We can't run a diary without a photo, so scan it in or read it in from your camera, but make sure it is included!
Be sure to include your name, address, and telephone number in the body of your email, in case our editor needs to contact you.
Also please provide a "caption" for your photo, so we will know who is who from left to right.
We'd especially love to hear from families who homeschool in unusual or adventurous circumstances -- while sailing, or working with the circus, for example -- or whose kids are engaged in especially interesting or imaginative activities.
But we publish diaries from lots of "regular" homeschool families, too!
Your chances of getting published are very good.
So send your diary in!
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10. How to advertise with us
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To download our media kits, click here.
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