Welcome to this issue of The Way Home
IN THIS ISSUE:
AUTO UPKEEP: Basic Car Care, Maintenance and Repair
Twelve Reasons to Read Aloud to Your Children
H.O.P.E. Home School Consulting, LLC
PUNDITS AND PURISTS - Why Translate Shakespeare?
Boys Town Press Offers “About Me” Interactive Books for Children & Adults To Create Together
Dear Reader:
Summer is an excellent time to relax and read a good book. Of course, as homeschoolers, we read when ever the mood hits us. I remember homeschooling our son and sometimes using mapped-out curriculum. Whenever we were given assignments that included good books to read it was always very, very difficult to stick to the plan. One day that I think of a lot, was when we were scheduled to read The Giver. We were supposed to read only the first chapter and then write about it. My son sat in front of the fire for the entire day and read most of the book. I was a little torn that day about not following the plan. However, he was so into the book that I did not make him stop reading!! We were, and still are, homeschoolers. We enjoy most things that we do and do it our way! Enjoy the Summer and enjoy this issue of The Way Home! Warmly, Mary.
P.S. Here are some of our family’s favorite books for summer reading:
The Giver
Hardy Boys
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Little House Books
All of a Kind
Dog Jack (A Fantastic New Book. Click Here To Order)
Escape From Warsaw
Beautiful Joe
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AUTO UPKEEP: Basic Car Care, Maintenance and Repair
By Michael E. Gray and Linda E. Gray
Published by Rolling Hills Publishing
Phone and Fax: 800-918-READ
Available at www.autoupkeep.com/kit
By Linda Foster
Do you know how to check the tire pressure in your tires? How can you conserve fuel? What does it mean when the engine light comes on? These, and hundreds of other questions are answered in Auto Upkeep: Basic Car Care, Maintenance and Repair, a straightforward consumer guide designed to help keep you safe and save you thousands of dollars. Although written as a textbook, this comprehensive do-it-yourself guide is an excellent resource for anyone desiring a basic knowledge of automobile operation and maintenance and offers tips from choosingan auto insurance policy to performing basic maintenance and repairs.
By Cathy Cuthbert
Most parents read to their young children as a matter of course and stop reading to them when they reach school age. They stop, I suppose, because they don't see the need to read aloud once their children have been handed over to the expert reading instructors or once they can read to themselves. But there are benefits to reading aloud to your children no matter their age, especially to formerly-schooled children who now homeschool.
H.O.P.E. Home School Consulting, LLC
There Is H.O.P.E. for Homeschoolers
H.O.P.E. Home School
Consulting, LLC
68494 County Road 29
New Paris, IN 46553
www.hopehomeschoolconsulting.com
By Linda Pliagas
Would you like to start homeschooling your children but have absolutely no idea how to begin? Don’t worry, there is H.O.P.E! — an acronym for Homeschooling parents will be Organized and Prepared to Educate their children, H.O.P.E provides nationwide consulting services to parents who are beginning their journey in home education.
PUNDITS AND PURISTS - Why Translate Shakespeare?
In a previous issue of The Link we had described the Access to Shakespeare series of plays, featuring the original Elizabethan text alongside a translation into contemporary English.
You might ask, why translate Shakespeare’s plays into contemporary English? Isn’t it almost a sacrilege to tinker with The Bard’s canon? And when you had to study Shakespeare during your high school years, nobody handed you an easy-to-read version on a silver platter.
For some probing questions into the rationale of these translations, we feature a discussion between Dr. Jonnie Patricia Mobley, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, editor and translator of the Access to Shakespeare series of plays, and Raymond Walters, publisher, Lorenz Educational Publishers, Chicago.
Boys Town Press Offers “About Me” Interactive Books for Children & Adults To Create Together
By Emerson Sandow
It is a well-established fact that strong reading skills are essential for lifelong success in academics and in general living in adulthood. One would think that all of the great ideas in teaching reading or supplementing such teaching, had been thought of, but educator K.A. (Kathy) Bye has shown otherwise. Ms. Bye, who believes strongly in the power of proper instruction in reading, developed a series of four interactive “About Me” books, published by Boys Town Press, that enabled her to create memories with her grandchildren, and remain connected with them, even though they lived hundreds of miles away. Each 30-page, spiral-bound “About Me” book allows children, ages 2 to 8, to enjoy a major part of the creation of their books – thinking, writing, illustrating and in the process, creating their own personal story, using their own words. They can then illustrate the stories with family photos, drawings or designs.
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