Easy Grammar Systems
Dr. Wanda Phillips, creator of Easy Grammar www.easygrammar.com Wanda began teaching at the high school level. “Very soon,” she relates, “I began to question why these students were coming to me without an understanding of grammar. I’m embarrassed now to admit it, but I blamed it on the junior high and elementary teachers.” Within a short time, Wanda secured a position at the seventh grade level and was immediately struck by the...
Rightstart™ Math
Rightstart™ Math for Homeschoolers This unique, award-winning, hands-on program de-emphasizes counting, uses visualization of quantities, and provides strategies and visual pictures for learning the facts. Understanding and problem solving are emphasized throughout the curriculum. The primary learning tool is the AL Abacus, a specially designed two-sided abacus that is both kinesthetic and visual. The AL Abacus is grouped in...
Signing Online
Sign language – whether Signing Exact English or American Sign Language (ASL) — have become an accepted language form in the past 30 years. Hundreds of people each year learn one or the other, or both, either for their work, such as official interpreters, teachers in schools, emergency responders and health care professionals; for their family reasons, such as a deaf or hard-of-hearing relative, or simply because they find it...
Learning vs. Schooling: What’s the Difference?
By Carolyn Forte We are now more than 40 years into the modern homeschool movement, yet the difference between learning and schooling is less understood than ever. More and more researchers, psychologists, educators and physicians have entered the debate, explaining the profound difference between learning and the typical methods used in formal education. Learning can be forced and regimented but such learning will be neither...
25 ART WEB SITES
SCHOOLS www.artinstructionschools.edu – Founded in 1914 and known as the “premier art study home school in the country,” Art Instruction Schools’ qualified instructors work with students at their own pace, and all supplies and textbooks are sent as needed, from one lesson to the next. Students ages 14 and over may apply; scholarship applications are available. www.famous-artists-school.com – Famous Artists School, founded more than 50...
