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Welcome to the December 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. JOY: Read through the Bible this year with our FREE 2012 Bible Reading Plan!
Yes, it's here again - time to print out and start using this year's Bible Reading Plan. Each weekday includes selections from both the Old and New Testaments, with Psalms and special readings on Sundays, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Super simple to use. Print one for each family member and hand out extras to friends! Visit our home page and download it from the link at the top of the middle column. |
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2. NOTIONS: Top Ten New Year's Resolutions for Homeschool Parents
This year we resolve to:
1. Buy a sturdy box with carry handles and keep it in the car for our library trips.
2. Make that TWO sturdy boxes.
3. Keep the Magic Markers where our toddlers can't find them.
4. If our kids MUST write on the walls, we'll teach them to do it with calligraphy.
5. Throw out all the old dead pens. They aren't coming back.
6. Teach the kids who are old enough how to hammer, saw, drill, paint, cook, and sew. This alone will make them more educated than 95% of today's kids.
7. Take the whole family fishing, camping, picking apples, or some other outdoors activity.
8. Drive into a rural area at night and observe the glory of the night sky.
9. Order our fall curriculum earlier than September 1.
10. Spend less time on Facebook and more face time with the kids. |
3. PRIZE: Last chance to enter our PHS #100 Story Contest!
If you're a Practical Homeschooling subscriber, here is some good news. We have extended the deadline for the issue #100 Story Contest to January 10, 2012. 10 kids with the best stories will win the Usborne See Inside Houses Long Ago flap book from EDC Publishing. And believe it or not, we're short on entries, so your child has a GREAT chance of winning! This lavishly illustrated board book contains eight two-page spreads showing a typical old-time house from various geographic regions of the world. Each page has pictures of the house with smaller pictures of some of its more important furnishings. Captions explain the purpose of each item and each detail of the house. The pictures are printed on flaps that can be lifted to show more details. Here is the story starter:"My favorite online site is . . ." Tell us what you like about the site, how you found it, what you do there, etc. 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 Jan/Feb/Mar 2012 issue of Practical Homeschooling.
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4. SUBSCRIBE NOW and make 2012 your BEST homeschool year EVER!
 Not a subscriber yet? Then sign up now! In your first issue of Practical Homeschooling magazine, you'll find:
- What worries and energizes homeschool leaders
- How one co-op motivated its kids to LOVE to write
- How to be that "cool" parent who does the dry ice experiments
- Is college still worth it?
- And so much more!
Click here to see what's in the current issue.
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5. 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 our current issue. So it's a great way to tiptoe into homeschooling, but no substitute for an actual
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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6. Write a Day at Our House diary!
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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7. How to advertise with us
Want to promote your product in our magazine, Practical Homeschooling, or on our website, Homeschool World® at www.home-school.com?
To download our media kits, click here.
Interested in sponsoring a future issue of the Home-School News? Have a message you'd like to share with our list of over 16,000 subscribers? If interested, email Home-SchoolNews with "Homeschool World E-Letter" in the subject line. Tell us your company name, address, phone, website, and the product you wish to advertise, and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. |
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Please forward them this e-letter and (if you would) suggest that they subscribe.
Thank you for your help!
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