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Looking to listen to something about home education/homeschooling try these wonderful podcasts.

http://www.ahe.org.nz/2010/05/meeting-with-moe/

Failure to comply will see their benefit cut by half, but they will retain additional assistance.

Exemptions will be available for those in fulltime study or with mitigating circumstances such as special-needs children.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/3498073/Unemployed-face-work-tests

We welcome your comments.
We are asking for homeschooling to be considered mitigating circumstances.

Please join us in emailing Paula Bennett . Her email address is paula.bennettmp@parliament.govt.nz

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Update

The reply from our email so far:

Hello Tarnya

The Hon Paula Bennett, Minister for Social Development and Employment, has asked me to thank you for your email.

Consideration is currently being given to the matters you raise and you may expect a reply at the Minister’s earliest opportunity.

Kind regards

Nicky Uriaro

Private Secretary, Office of Hon Paula Bennett

Minister for Social Development and Employment | Minister of Youth Affairs

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the email we sent:

Good Morning Paula Bennett

We ( National Council of Home Educators www.nchenz.org.nz) request thathomeschooling be considered as mitigating circumstances in regard to the work requirements for DPB claimants. We request that a home educating parent who holds, for their child/ren, an exemption from attendance at a public school also be issued an exemption from these work requirements.

We submit to you that a home educating parent is involved in full-time work, albeit unpaid.

“We understand that exemptions will be available for those in fulltime study or with mitigating circumstances such as special-needs children.”
from
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/3498073/Unemployed-face-work-tests

Regards
Penny Bilton, Tarnya Burge Maddy Maxwell, Dawn Jones and Michelle Campbell
NCHENZ executive committee

www.nchenz.org.nz

Homeschool team Free Range Robotics have won the New Zealand National VEX Robotics Championship for the second year in a row. They also scooped more than their fair share of other awards, winning the New Zealand Championship awards for Web Design (www.robotics.org.nz), the Think Award for Autonomous Programming, the Promote award for the best team video, the VEX Essay Award and the runner up for Programming Skills Award.

Their youtube channel is here

Online homeschool conference http://www.thebroadroom.co.nz/old-schoolhouse-expo/

Interesting podcast about John Holt from a Libertarian perspective John Holt: Libertarian Outsider thanks to Tarnya

Immersion Learning – Resources to bring ocean science adventures to students in grades 4–8. Immersion exposes students to ongoing scientific expeditions in an effort to ignite their interest in real discovery and learning.

http://www.immersionlearning.org/ thanks to LARA

French Website http://www.tivi5mondeplus.com/#live thanks to Margi

Homeschool Planner http://hef.org.nz/2010/free-homeschool-planner/ It’s for a free homeschooling planner that is really simple and looks perfect for anyone who has lots of ideas but never seems to get around to doing them or being organised enough. It’s called “Planned Spontaneity”. Thanks to Erin
http://hef.org.nz/2010/free-homeschool-planner/

Earthquakes for kids  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/
http://www.fema.gov/kids/quake.htm Thanks to LARA

Bible maps and timelines http://www.biblestudy.org/maps/main.html Thanks to LARA

Career Services

Neuroscience For Kids: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
BBC website also have great science, geography, and biological videos and articles. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/

MSNucleus website has a lot of storiebooks. These free animated electronic storybooks help teach science in a fun and entertaining manner  http://msnucleus.org/membership/guide/storybooks.html [thanks to Alida for the links]

Map Trek Sampler below to download 14MB freebie of maps – last pages has New Zealand map then blank New Zealand map to fill in. [thanks Beth]

http://www.knowledgequestmaps.com/Map-Trek-Sampler.html

www.learnthenews.com

I have probably mentioned this link before but I’m finding lots of goodies, so I will mention it again:

Homeschool Freebie of the Day

http://www.teachchildrenmusic.com/

Advice for New Homeschooling Parents article
http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/11-1article4.htm [thanks Lara]
Language Learning
It’s only $10 for homeschoolers – just say that you are homeschooling and you can pay $10 instead of $50.
That gets you access to the site for the whole year and to all of the languages (French, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Japanese, Maori & Indonesian). Plus it makes a big difference in your English spelling too  They have a free trial if you want to check it out. www.languageperfect.co.nz