PRINT FRIENDLY VERSION print it out, cut it in half and give one to a friend:-)

also  http://www.nieonline.co.nz/

“The Homeschooling exemption certificate only applies to those students involved in compulsory education. The definition states: “Every person who is not a foreign student1 is required to be enrolled at a registered school at all times during the period beginning on the person’s 6th birhtday and ending on the person’s 16th birthday.” Footnote 1 refers to the definition of domestic student status.

My interpretation of the information is that your students qualify to enrol as domestic students (timebound) if they choose but compulsory education is not a requirement for them therefore the Homeschooling Exemption does not apply.”

http://www.nchenz.org.nz/resources/government-liaison/special-needs-children-and-ors-funding/

(updated 4th October)

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Free Audio Books resource
www.librivox.org
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

Free Books resource
www.mainlesson.com

The Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. This includes all works first published before 1923. The period from 1880 or so until 1922 offers a wealth of material in all categories, including: Nursery Rhymes, Fables, Folk Tales, Myths, Legends and Hero Stories, Literary Fairy Tales, Bible Stories, Nature Stories, Biography, History, Fiction, Poetry, Storytelling, Games, and Craft Activities.
We offer these resources at no charge and grant permission to individuals to print copies for personal and educational uses. The texts are formatted so that attractive copies can be printed easily, in larger type for younger readers and smaller type for older ones, with illustrations included where possible. Teachers and parents can make use of the readers that are already available, or they can construct their own readers by selecting stories from the existing pool.

The Periodic Table of Videos

Over the summer I pinned up a periodic table on our kitchen noticeboard and each lunch time we enjoyed watching one video from the Periodic Table of Vidoes. Here is an exciting one to whet your appetite.

(I have never produced anything this exciting in my kitchen. Skip in  about 5 minutes to see the explosion!)