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Welcome to the October 2012 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. FREE: Your copy of our "Reader Awards" issue! Just ask!
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First we had 4,000 free copies of our "Reader Awards" issue available.
Then we had 2,000.
Now we're down to just a few hundred copies.
If you haven't requested your FREE copy
yet, & you haven't already requested a free issue in the last 2 years,* do so NOW! Last chance before the free issues are all gone!
In this issue you'll find our coveted 2012 Reader Awards winners. Find out what curriculum and educational products thousands of your fellow homeschoolers voted the BEST!
(Plus all the OTHER awesome articles, reviews, news stories, inspiration, success stories, and more you'll find in that issue.)
Want to make SURE you'll get our Reader Awards issue? Then subscribe today, and your subscription will start with that issue.
*(We allow 1 free issue request per household every 2 years. It's a chance to find out if you like our magazine, but it's no substitute for a subscription!) :)
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2. TIME4WRITING: Get Writing Help From Someone Other than Mom
 Now that your homeschooling routine is back in full swing, you might notice that your kids need some extra help developing their writing skills.
Give them (and yourself) the benefit of teacher led instruction without stepping into a classroom, with the help of Time4Writing. They offer 8-week online writing courses for elementary, middle and high school, taught online by certified teachers.
Whether they need writing practice or help developing a skill, Time4Writing courses are designed to help students master the art of writing at all levels.
Time4Writing offers a 14-day money back guarantee. Browse their online writing courses, meet their teachers or take a 2-minute tour to see how it works!
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3. VOTE: Pick the best educational software & websites of 2013 & you might win this great prize!
It's time again to cast your vote for the best educational products for homeschoolers! This time, it's the Practical Homeschooling "i-Learn" Awards. (It stands for "Interactive Learning.) To entice you to take the time to fill out and send in this ballot, we are offering a fabulous prize. But vote soon - all ballots must be completed and received before November 15, 2012!
 You Might Win a Level of Rosetta Stone ($159 Value!)
And you can enter the drawing to win it for FREE just by casting your vote for your favorite homeschool products in our 2013 i-Learn Awards!
Here's the page:
http://www.home-school.com/2013-i-learn-awards/
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4. FUN: Stand-up humor by homeschooler rocks YouTube
 | | Messy Mondays: Seven Lies about Homeschoolers |
I can't keep it to myself any more! The "Messy Mondays" series on YouTube, produced by homeschooled teen (now homeschool grad) Jordan, with help from sibs and friends, is a laff riot!
A new one is posted each week. They cover dozens of teen- and mom-friendly topics, such as "What Life Was Like Before the Internet" and "Oh, No, I'm Single! I'm Going to Die!"
But you might want to start with the "7 Lies About Homeschoolers" routine, which has had over 1 million YouTube views. Just click the image above to start watching!
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| 4. INFO: New articles & fun facts 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
Practical Homeschooling subscription!
Here are just a few of the articles we recently added:
 And here are a few of the great charts & graphs we've added:
To read these, and hundreds of other great articles, click here.
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5. 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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6. 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 ? Have a message you'd like to share with our list of over 19,000 email subscribers?
If interested, just click here and fill out our Advertising Contact Form. We'll get back to you within a day or two. |
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Please Forward This E-Mail Newsletter
Do you have friends who homeschool, or who are interested in homeschooling?
Please forward them this e-letter and (if you would) suggest that they subscribe.
Thank you for your help!
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How To Subscribe to This E-Mail Newsletter
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Fill in the "Free Email Newsletter" box you'll find near the top of the middle column. | | This newsletter is ©2012 Home Life, Inc., PO Box 1190, Fenton, MO 63026-1190. You may share it with others provided the entire content, including this copyright message, is included. |
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