Otherways: Home Education Network

In this issue:

• Help Your Child to Wonder - Rachel Carson’s beautiful article on exploring the world with a sense of wonder and reverence.
• Home Education: A Choice For Life - Lyn explains that home education is not something you buy. It is a way of life.
• When Being a Mum Isn’t Enough - Amy Hollingsworth talks about finding a sense of purpose and identity.
• I Have Today - Dr John Peacock has more to say on socialisation.
• Home Education Is… - Sharee’s beautiful pictorial representation of what home education is all about
• Home Education and Special Needs Research - Rosanne looks at Workplace style learning in relation to home education.
• Making Friends & Projects with a Homeschool Sewing Class - A practical article for organising a group activity.
• A Real Education - Parents are naturally the right people to educate their children.
• Build a Lab - John looks at Michael Faraday and his candle.
• Home-made Maths Games - Part 2, Board Games, by Kevin Lees

Plus our regular features.

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By Lyn Loxton

There has always been a lot of confusion with the public’s perception of what homeschooling is. As the name implies, people expect to do schooling in the home and therefore expect to be able to purchase homeschooling as a package for their children.

Many are often quite confused and even alarmed when they find out that homeschooling is in fact all about choices - choices that they have to make and new ideas they have to think about.

People consider homeschooling their children for many reasons - philosophical, religious, travel and for many these days, the total frustration of seeing them hurt and unhappy in school. Until these reasons force us to explore new ways, we have never really given much thought to our children’s education - education happens in schools, it happened to us, therefore it will happen to our children - full stop.

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The Place of Work Place Style Learning

By Rosanne Trevaskis

The last issue of Otherways provided a useful summary of the research on home education and children with special needs. In it, Sue identified the importance of the one-to-one teaching relationship.

“All the research shows that home education offers more individual attention which is believed to be the vital ingredient necessary for academic success in the education of children with LD” (p19).

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April 10 2007

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21528458-2862,00.html

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Animal Adaptations - Vertebrates (Y3)

Why is it that some birds can fly and some can’t? How does a penguin survive in cold weather without ending up with frozen feet? How does an owl catch its dinner in the middle of the night? Why are some birds beaks flat, some long, some short and some fat? Come and discover animal adaptations in animals with backbones!

Tuesday 17th April - 11am

See the Science at Monash category for more information about booking.

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