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Dear Readers,
This issue's articles discuss the teaching of finances to homeschoolers and a teenager's experiences with growing through family experiences. Both are very timely and can provide great insight for all of us - even if our children are almost grown. One of the most important aspects that homeschoolers deal with is the teaching of real-life skills and awareness without going overboard. Academics alone are not enough; children need to be taught life skills -- from changing a tire to balancing the checkbook and living within one's means at the same time. The actual goal of homeschooling is to raise well-adjusted adults who have not lost their curiosity or their drive to add more knowledge and skill to their Life repertoire. We hope that these articles, gleaned from excellent homeschoolers and their experiences, are valuable to you and help enlighten your homeschooling lives. Thank you for reading.
- Michael Leppert |
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Marva Collins Seminars
 Marva Collins opened her own school in Chicago in 1975. She took the $5,000 savings from her retirement fund, and used it to convert the second floor of her home. It was a drastic step necessitated by her thorough dissatisfaction with the poor quality of education in the Chicago public schools where she had been teaching for fourteen years. The rest of her story is legendary; children who the school system had labeled as "un-teachable" became scholars under her tutelage. Her academic program begins with high standards and expectations. Her motto is, "Every child is a born achiever." The corollary to the credo is, "until somebody convinces the child to the contrary."
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A Child's Wish, A Family's Dream
by Amanda A. Morrow, homeschooler, (then) age 15
People always ask me what I will be when I grow up. "Maybe you'll become a writer?" they ask, or, "Will you make it big in life?"
The possibilities are endless. They are even more endless for my eight-year-old brother, Jonathan, -- ". . .a fireman?" ". . .a policeman?" or "How about a construction worker?"
"So," I'd like to respond, "What would you say if we told you we were already 'something?' Would you believe us? Would you believe that a 15-year old and an 8-year-old could be entrepreneurs?"
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Curriculum Design On-Line
 Access Thousands of K-12 Differentiated Curriculum Units
Where you can AHA!
The curriculum units at Curriculum Design On-Line are based on the AHA! (Analyzing Human Activities) Differentiated Curriculum Model created by Dr. T. Roger Taylor. The units are designed using an integrated, interdisciplinary, thematic approach helping students to understand the relationship among content areas while making connections to global issues, problem-solving, and the creation of new and unique ideas.
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Learning / Teaching Finances
by Jean Mastin
After reading Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad" series of books, I wanted to share his ideas with our group of homeschooling teens. Mr. Kiyosaki claims that rich parents teach their children different lessons and attitudes about money than do the poor and middle class, and I wanted our kids to learn as the rich kids do. By the end of class, however, the thinking of teens and parents alike had changed.
I used the Blue Stocking Press edition of Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?, an Uncle Eric Book, and Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad book and Cash Flow games, starting with his Cash Flow for Kids. Even though the game was recommended for ages 12 and under, I figured we'd be safe playing the kids' version first, to ease the learning of basic concepts and vocabulary. The game relies on icons to help visualize how a balance sheet balances, while keeping calculations down to a minimum. The teens mastered this game at the first playing, and they actually asked for the older version, Cash Flow 101, anxious to learn the more sophisticated concepts.
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Barchowsky Fluent Handwriting
 HANDWRITING, THE WRITE WAY
By Nan Jay Barchowsky
Learn to write for lifelong pleasure and reward. Learn to write logically. Learn to write in a linear manner. Start with basics. Then, progress step-by step to fluent, legible handwriting. What are basics? Capital letters? No. Lowercase letters? No. What then?
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