Technology Teacher Bill Bassett has a new website. Bill teaches technology to home educated students. The classes are for students from age 10 up, and cover electronics, woodwork and metalwork, and can be done in conjunction with a TCS course for teens seeking NCEA credits in technology (since Bill is a registered teacher).
See his website for his prices . There are 4 students per class so they get plenty of 1:1 support. His workshop is in Papakura -not far from the motorway offramp.
English grammar (not US grammar) www.dailywritingtips.com
Rethinking Homework www.stuff.co.nz
Out of the Classroom www.stuff.co.nz
Music lesson plans artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teach/les.cfm
Looking for great Links http://wonder-mints.blogspot.com/ ( Blog by a Christchurch Home educator)
Culture- international crafts www.culturecottage.com/
NCEA Science Level 1 resources www.SoundClassroom.com free resources and free newsletter subscription for students doing NCEA Level 1 Science.
Other great Links? Share them with us in the comments ( New Zealand Home Educators only please)
We now have an affiliate banner on the website. We earn 10% of any books you buy if you click from our website:-)
Do you have any book recommendations? Let me know and I’ll makes some links. It would be helpful to have a list of recommended books.
On the Qualification page
Some notes on NCEA by Kay ( These were given as a supplement for an audience who heard Kay speak.)
Rosalind recently revised her article
Qualifications 101 by Rosalind Peterson
The most common question that we’ve been asked over the two decades that our family has homeschooled is, “But what about socialisation?!” And the second most common question has been, “But what about high school qualifications?!”
You may have already decided on what is your favourite answer to the school qualifications question, but if you haven’t, I hope that my version of “A Beginner’s Guide to High School Qualifications for the NZ Home Educator”, or Qualifications 101, will be of some use to you. Read more
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine®, an international homeschooling magazine (www.thehomeschoolmagazine.com).
wanted us to know about the following offers:
We have a beautiful Christmas idea book full of activities, recipes, articles, crafts, and much more. It’s completely free and available for download here:
http://thehomeschoolmagazine.com/Digital-Supplement/Thanksgiving&Christmas.html
Next, we wanted to let you and your support group about our 40% off savings on our Canadian and international one-year print subscriptions. Canadian residents can get 4 issues for 17.50 USD and international subscribers can subscribe for $27.95 USD.
You can view these specials by visiting our online store:
http://www.theoldschoolhousestore.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=175
These prices are good through Sunday, November 29 at midnight EST.
NCHENZ is hosting the HASCA calendar. HASCA is a friend of NCHENZ.
If you would like a calendar for your local group on the web, NCHENZ will happily host it for you.
If you would like some help to get a presence on the web for your local group let me know.
At the beginning of the year the National Government cancelled changes to the work rules for the Domestic Purposes Benefit because of the recession. However Finance Minister Bill English was interviewed recently and said he wanted to tighten the welfare net ‘a bit’ see here and here, this includes “policies to send DPB mums out to work and allow beneficiaries to earn more are both back on the agenda as recession ends”.
Home educators have written to Paula Bennett on this issue in the past see here asking that home educating parents be exempted from these work requirements.
NCHENZ is pleased to announce that we will be offering professionally produced ID cards for home educated students next year (Feb/Mar 2010). It will have the NCHENZ logo, your exemption number as well as the MAXX logo if you live in Auckland or the CANDO logo for those that live in Christchurch.
The costs will be $5 for individual NCHENZ members, $6 for any member of any of our member groups and $8 for any other home educated / homeschooled student.
More details later.
