Alan and Marcus go Forth and Multiply http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cu4_Vd6TTw
How Long is a piece of string? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80jxKQP2V0Y
Seven Tips for Encouraging your Child and Teen Towards Independent Learning with a Yearly Planner from The Broad Room
Any other great links please pop them in the comments
A new article has been added
The Correspondence School (TCS) and the homeschooling allowance.
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.
A selection of links
From New Zealand
Mad Hatter Books Mad Hatter Books specialises in second hand, collectible and out-of-print children’s books
Auckland Zoo’s education programmes which are individually priced. www.aucklandzoo.co.nz
Freecycle is a worldwide movement aimed at reducing items – both working and non-working – which would normally go to the landfill, in a not-for-profit way. You can either wait for items to come up (be very quick to make contact for a chance of getting them); or you can place a “Wanted” note which has to be very short.
www.freecycle.org/group/NZ/New_Zealand/Auckland – for Auckland
http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/ManurewaFreecycle/ – for South Auckland
I am sure there are other groups around the country.
Around the world
Exploring Homeschooling the ins and outs of the BIG decision ( Christian ) www.exploringhomeschooling.com/
Making a timeline using Excel www.microsoft.com/education/createtimeline.mspx
FREE e-book for those interested including stuff from Ruth Beechick, FIAR,
Amanda Bennett and Old Schoolhouse www.knowledgequestmaps.com/The-New-School-Year.html
Database of Free online curriculum
Spelling City A wonderful resource for free.
Audio science snippets for kids ( Thanks to Darnia )
A conversation with Greg Harris . Greg Harris has a blog here
www.brainpop.com ( approx 10yrs and over) and www.brainpopjr.com (approx 6-10 yrs)
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