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EHO Newsletter - May 15, 2008

Thu, 1 May 2008 17:02:00 -0500

Eclectic Homeschool Online Newsletter
May 1, 2008
http://eclectichomeschool.org
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The Eclectic Homeschool Online home office has moved. We are now located at 27 Dawson Dr. Fredericksburg, VA 22405. Our new phone number is (540) 479-1380. We’re happy to be in Fredericksburg and would welcome getting to know homeschoolers in the Fredericksburg area. A special email box has been set up for that purpose: local@eho.org.

The move also means that things are a bit disorganized. You know how it goes…you pack that important thing in a particular place so you’ll know right where it is when you need it…and you forget where the particular place is. Not to mention the need to unpack everything else…computer paper, index cards, my box of reward chocolates…yes, three things keep me going: grace, chai, and chocolates. Bear with us.

Now would also be a good time to mention, we are always in need of volunteers to do the busy work of EHO and in need of product reviewers. We currently need someone to manage the support area and a link checker to check links throughout the EHO website. We also always need more reviewers. We have a special area in the EHO castle for potential reviewers: http://eclectichomeschool.org/reviews/reviewing/default.asp. Don’t let all the information overwhelm you. We’ve designed our reviewer helps as a way to make things easier for reviewers and to make sure that reviewers really know what they are getting into. It takes time and good writing skills to be a good reviewer. We want to avoid the scenario of sending review products and then having to beg you to send them back after they’ve sat on your shelf for 6 months or longer. Publishers get cranky and rightly so. But if you’re one of those people that are forever describing different resources to your friends, writing reviews for EHO might just be for you.

We also need someone willing to keep HSBlog up to date with homeschool news items. We have a system in place that makes this fairly simple to do. It just takes time to accomplish, which is something in short supply for me, the person who has been doing it.
If you’d like to volunteer for any of these positions, please email volunteer@eho.org.

Feature Articles

Architecture Unit Study
The study of architecture can be and often is sprinkled into any good history or humanities course. For those who find a love for it, architecture makes a perfect topic for a unit study that can be focused in the direction most pleasing to the student. Whether you want to pursue the technical aspects of architecture such as drafting or construction, to study architecture from an art perspective, or to study how architecture played a role in history we have online resources, projects, lesson plans, books, videos, and hands-on resources to tailor your unit study to your interests.

Louis Sullivan: The Art of Architecture
Louis Sullivan left his imprint on American architecture in the skyscrapers he designed and in the influence he had on other great architects like Frank Lloyd Wright. Learn more about this innovative architect and about two-point perspective drawing.

Mother’s Day Resources
Good Stories for Great Holidays: Mother’s Day
* Cornelia’s Jewels
* The Lark and Its Young Ones
* The Revenge of Coriolanus

Springtime Gift Giving
It is spring, and the annual gift giving panic sets in. As the wedding season approaches, you realize that you will also need to consider graduation and teacher gifts. And let’s not forget Mother’s Day! These occasions combined with the usual birthdays, anniversaries, and baby showers, can be overwhelming financially. By gathering supplies and planning, you will be able to make beautiful gifts for all these occasions.

Mother’s Day Crafts in A Year in Crafts: May Crafts
Several ideas perfect making gifts for mom or grandma.

Focus: Architecture
The following resources are available at EHO in addition to all the new resources listed in our Architecture Unit Study.

Homeschool Art History: Gothic Cathedrals
During the Renaissance, the term gothic was coined as a term of derision for what the cultural elite of the time thought of as barbaric. The term was applied to the architecture of northern Europe, which was considered barbaric compared to the architecture of Greece and Rome. Gothic cathedral architecture is known for its great height with the eye drawn heavenward by the pointed spires and arches. Gothic cathedrals built from the tenth century can be found in greatest number in northern Europe, France and England especially. But there are examples in other countries.

Home Floor Plans
Summertime in the O’Leary family is often moving time. Being part of a military family means living in many different houses. One of the biggest challenges, once we’ve selected our new home, is to figure out where all the furniture will go. I like to make a scale drawing of our new place as well as scale drawings of our furniture. Perhaps you’re not moving in the near future, but you’d like to rearrange some of your furniture to make the most of the space you have available in your house. This can be a great homeschool family project.

Reviews
Buildings in Disguise: Architecture That Looks Like Animals, Food, and Other Things

Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction

Architecture in the Homeschool Resource Center

Building Big: Domes
David Macaulay
$17.99 – 10% Off
Where gods meet and players play–discover the domed wonders of the world. What holds up the Astrodome? Why did the Romans leave a hole in the roof of the Pantheon? Tour the world and trace the 2000-year history of domes with award-winning author-illustrator—and captivating storyteller—David Macaulay (The Way Things Work). From Houston’s Astrodome to Rome’s St. Peter’s Cathedral, to the geodesic domes of Buckminster Fuller, Domes introduces ingenious designers, recounts rarely told heroic stories, and reveals amazing triumphs through spectacular film footage, fascinating facts, and dramatic recreations.

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
by Francis D. K. Ching
$29.70 – 34% Off
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture is a remarkable, on-of-a-kind compendium which uses a combination of textual definitions and hundreds of superb line drawings to illuminate a comprehensive body of essential terms in architecture, including important interrelationships between building components. Grouped by themes, such as history, systems, structures, forms, construction, environmental issues, and behavior, all terms have their visual complement and can be readily accessed in a number of different ways. A Visual Dictionary of Architecture is an authoritative source of information for anyone tracking down an elusive word, and a delight for simple armchair browsing!

Haba Pyramid Set – block set
by Haba
$24.56 – 39% Off
Recreate one of the famous pyramids of Egypt – complete with meandering passageways and mysterious chambers. 49 wooden blocks in 20 shapes includes sphinx and palm tree pieces.

Crafts Department

A Year in Crafts: May
NEW: Bath Bombs, Flower Pen & Holder, A Sweet Bouquet for Mother’s Day MORE: Key Chain For Mom, Activ-Clay Coil Pot, Learn to Knit, Easy Knit Headbands, Easy Stitch Knit Baby Blanket, Knit Purse, Stained Glass Book Marks, Vase with Cascading Flowers, Safari Animal Projects

Science Department

Science Spot
Undercover Detectives
T-rays are digitally uncovering everything including potential terrorists, buried images on church walls, and subsurface flaws in the foam used to protect space shuttles.

Eclectic Weblinks Index

New listings in our eclectic educational weblinks index include:
Online Spelling Program

Fun Building Vocabulary

Learning Games for Kids

WordDuck.com

New Reviews

* Be a Writer: Your Guide to the Writing Life: Proven Tips and Powerful Techniques Help Young Writers Get Started
* Does Your Bag Have Holes?: 24 Truths That Lead to Financial and Spiritual Freedom (Book + Abridged Audiobook)
* The Elementary Common Sense of Thomas Paine
* Inherit the Land: Adventures on the Agrarian Journey (DVD)
* Introducing Early Christianity: A Topical Study of Its Life, Beliefs and Practices
* A Journey Home (DVD)
* Some of the Parts
* The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling
* Winesburg Ohio (Audiobook)
* Writer’s Market Companion 2nd Edition: The essential guide to starting your project, getting it published, and getting paid

EHO Resource Center

Featured Resource May
The Homeschooling Book of Lists
by Michael Leppert, Mary Leppert
$16.47 – 34% Off
The Homeschooling Book of Lists is a comprehensive, authoritative, and user-friendly resource for homeschoolers or anyone considering teaching their child at home. Written by Michael and Mary Leppert, two experts in the field of homeschooling, this easy-to-use book is filled with information, tips, and resources that will help you give your child an outstanding education. The book covers a wide variety of topics—including what to consider before homeschooling, state-by-state guidelines for homeschoolers, curriculum resources by subject area, and getting your homeschooled student into college.
Available May 9. Pre-orders receive an additional 5% discount.

New Resources

Painless Grammar
by Rebecca Elliott Ph.D.
$8.99 -
This very approachable text combines instruction in parts of speech and sentence structure with down-to-earth examples, funny illustrations, and examination of some of the more amusing and peculiar words in the English language. A chapter on clear e-mail communication and etiquette is brand new in this edition, as are many of the author’s challenging "Brain Ticklers." Her helpful chapter on how to edit a school paper has also been heavily revised and updated.

Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book
by Rufus Seder
$10.15 – 22% Off
There’s never before been a book like Gallop! Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. It’s impossible not to flip the page, and flip it again, and again, and again.

A first book of motion for kids, it shows a horse in full gallop and a turtle swimming up the page. A dog runs, a cat springs, an eagle soars, and a butterfly flutters. Created by Rufus Butler Seder, an inventor, artist, and filmmaker fascinated by antique optical toys, Scanimation is a state-of-the-art six-phase animation process that combines the "persistence of vision" principle with a striped acetate overlay to give the illusion of movement. It harkens back to the old magical days of the kinetoscope, and the effect is astonishing, like a Muybridge photo series springing into action—or, in terms kids can relate to, like a video without a screen. Complementing the art is a delightful rhyming text full of simple questions and fun, nonsense replies: Can you gallop like a horse? giddyup-a-loo! Can you strut like a rooster? cock-a-doodle-doo! Every child who opens the book will be amazed—and so will every parent.

Joseph and Chico: The Life of Pope Benedict XVI as Told By a Cat
by Jeanne Perego, Donata Dal Molin Casagrande- Illustrator
$12.21 – 32% Off
In this beautifully illustrated book for children, Chico the cat describes the life of his "best friend," Pope Benedict, in this authorized biography of the Pope for young people approved by the Vatican. "Dear Children, here you will find a biography that is different than others because it is told by a cat and it is not every day a cat can consider the Holy Father his friend and sit down to write his life story," the Pope’s personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Ganswein, says in the foreword.

The Pope is known for his fondness of animals, especially cats, and Joseph and Chico is narrated by Chico, a real cat who took up with the Pope in his native Germany long before he became the Pope. Chico tells the story of the life of "my best friend" from his birth in Germany in 1927, through his days as a young man, priest, bishop and cardinal. With a colorful and sometimes amusing language, the author makes this funny cat tell us about the life of the young Joseph all the way up to his election as Pontiff on April 19, 2005. It recounts the Nazi era in Germany when the Pope was a teenager, calling the war years "one of the most dramatic and shameful times in the history of man". Later when he became Cardinal Ratzinger, Chico recounts how each time when the Cardinal returned to Germany from Rome for a vacation, the cat would run into his house and sit on his lap as he played the piano.

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
by Trenton Lee Stewart, Diana Sudyka-Illustrator
$11.55 – 32% Off
The fabulous foursome readers embraced as The Mysterious Benedict Society is back with a new mission, significantly closer to home. After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are forced to go on an unexpected search–a search to find Mr. Benedict. It seems that while he was preparing the kids’ adventure, he stepped right into a trap orchestrated by his evil twin Mr. Curtain.

With only one week to find a captured Mr. Benedict, the gifted foursome faces their greatest challenge of all–a challenge that will reinforce the reasons they were brought together in the first place and will require them to fight for the very namesake that united them.

Painless Writing
by Jeffrey Strausser
$8.95
Titles in Barron’s Painless Series are textbook supplements designed especially for classroom use by middle school and high school students. The approach of each title is an appeal to students who think that the subject is boring, or too difficult, or both. The authors, all experienced educators, take a light approach, showing kids what is most interesting about each subject, and how seemingly difficult problems can be transformed into fun quizzes, brain-ticklers, and challenging puzzles with rational solutions. Here is practical advice that transforms essay writing into a satisfying experience for middle school and senior high school students. The author offers tips on enlivening writing with vivid images, smoothing out sentences, silencing the dull passive voice, and adding rhythm to writing. He also shows how to create a template that students can use when writing research papers for all subjects. In addition, students will find web site reference s cited throughout the text, which they can access. Brain ticklers (short quizzes) appear throughout the book with an answer key at the back.

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
by Jeanne Birdsall
$6.50
This summer the Penderwick sisters have a wonderful surprise: a holiday on the grounds of a beautiful estate called Arundel. Soon they are busy discovering the summertime magic of Arundel’s sprawling gardens, treasure-filled attic, tame rabbits, and the cook who makes the best gingerbread in Massachusetts. But the best discovery of all is Jeffrey Tifton, son of Arundel’s owner, who quickly proves to be the perfect companion for their adventures.

The icy-hearted Mrs. Tifton is not as pleased with the Penderwicks as Jeffrey is, though, and warns the new friends to stay out of trouble. Which, of course, they will—won’t they? One thing’s for sure: it will be a summer the Penderwicks will never forget. Deliciously nostalgic and quaintly witty, this is a story as breezy and carefree as a summer day.

Buy Resources in the EHO Resource Center and Help Support EHO

Look for our Shop Amazon - Fund EHO Link posted throughout the EHO website or visit the EHO Resource Center main page at http://eclectichomeschool.org/store/

Eclectic Homeschool Resource Directory

We’ve added 3 new listings to the EHO Resource Directory. The Directory is a great place to find small companies that focus on the many aspects of homeschooling. If you’re looking for something new or a little different, try browsing our Directory. We currently have 591 listings in 88 categories.

New Listings

If you’re interested in listing your business in the directory, please visit the following page to submit a commercial or non-commercial website. http://eclectichomeschool.org/info/submit_listing.asp

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The Lord bless and keep you,
Beverly Krueger
Eclectic Homeschool Online
http://eclectichomeschool.org

UHSE - FREEBIE ALERT

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:30:00 -0500

Here's a freebie compliments of Cindy Rushton!

I can't believe I've not posted about this at this blog already!

Well... Yes, I can. Keeping up with one blog has become a challenge. Keeping up with two is nearly impossible. But I am determined to ensure that all of my blog readers have every possible opportunity to register for the upcoming Ultimate Homeschool Expo, so here I am!

If you’re a Christian, homeschooler or not, you will find much of value at the Ultimate Homeschool Expo, and your ticket to the whole expo, even with everything you’ll have access to in the private, exclusive Membership Site (everything from the UHSE in one place–it has audios from all of the sessions and from the bonus gifts that her speakers offer, ebooks, complete unit study guides, articles, printable notebooking pages, cookbooks…I can’t even begin to list it all!), is only $40. People, that’s a bargain!

If you’ll visit my From a Cluttered Desk blog and scroll back several entries, you will find my earlier blog entry containing a link to the previous freebie, Oops, My Cup is Empty and My Coffee Pot is Broke!, which is a download of an audio workshop. This is one of the many things you will have access to if you join the Ultimate Homeschool Expo. Of course, because Cindy is such a generous person, you can still download that freebie now.

Today’s freebie is…

A Quick Start for Notebooking Mini-Set!

Need ideas for encouraging your young writers and QUICK? Ready for a FUN way to encourage your most reluctant writer to write AND like it??? This fun-filled, hands-on workshop is one that you simply CANNOT miss!! Cindy Rushton, who has become known through the years as THE BINDER QUEEN, uses Notebooking for EVERYTHING! She will show you how to begin whether your child is a toddler or the most skeptical high schoolers. This workshop is sure to light a fire that will equip YOU to help your children deepen their studies and document learning all along the way! TOPICS FOR THIS WORKSHOP INCLUDE: Hey! Do I Have A Chance At This??; Why On Earth Notebook???; Down to the Nitty Gritty…WHAT Do I Need and HOW Do I Do It?; Step-by-Step Through Notebooking; Scrapbooking! YES! You CAN Have Fun Homeschooling; Hey? What is Legal? What All Goes Into A Notebook???; Developing FUN Studies That Teach and Inspire!!; Copywork…Answers to ALL of Your Questions; Taking the Writer From Reluctant to Researching; Ideas, Ideas, Ideas, There’s Gotta Be One for You; PLUS Much, Much More! PLUS! Cindy doesn’t stop with the workshop, she also includes the Q/A Session after the workshop AND her handouts/samples of student notebooks. Awesome!

Let’s Try Notebooking Audio Mp3:
(Cindy’s Workshop)

(Questions and Answers)

Handouts:

Samples of Student Notebooks:

See what I mean?!

I’ve shared, on my other blog, about the UHSE preview workshops I’ve already presented. I kid you not; these are some of the most enjoyable workshops I’ve ever done. The combination of voice chat and text chat means they are truly interactive and the people who attend Cindy’s workshops are AWESOME. They’re such a wonderful community that I even chose to join a private email list Cindy offers. This is the type of support system every homeschooler needs, and you can get a taste of it by attending the UHSE preview chats now and being a part of the Ultimate Homeschool Expo. Take my word for it, you WANT a ticket to this event, and access to all of the wonderful resources you will find there.

If you appreciate my blogs (Okay, you don't see me much here, but if you read From a Cluttered Desk...) and would like to bless me and my ministry, please purchase your ticket today using the following link. I am grateful to Cindy for offering me a percentage of your ticket price.

Grab your ticket here:

http://www.cindysaffiliates.com/go.php?offer=tcardwell&pid=1

Celebrating Jesus!
Tammy C

EHO Newsletter - April 15, 2008

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:58:00 -0500

Eclectic Homeschool Online Newsletter
April 15, 2008

http://eclectichomeschool.org
Please share this newsletter with others.

I hate April 15...or should I say, I hate taxes. All the forms, figures, and complications get to me although I use tax software. You can almost tell when Mom's been working on taxes because I get very grumpy. The article Let's Not Be Fooled sort of flowed out of that frustration. We're focusing on finishing up with this update, but primarily about finishing the school year for those homeschoolers who keep a more traditional calendar. For some, that means figuring out what to do with all the stuff you've accumulated over the year. For others it's figuring out a way to keep track of things accomplished and things yet to accomplish. For others, it may be ending their homeschooling career as their youngest graduates. Wherever you are in this homeschooling spectrum, we have articles and resources that should give you help and encouragement to wade through finishing your school year.

Feature Articles

Ending the School Year Right

May is looming and with it the end of the school year. If you're not a year-round-schooler, you may be looking forward to tossing everything in a box and locking it away for the summer before collapsing into a chair and heaving a huge sigh of relief. Don't. Not yet.

Let's Not Be Fooled

Getting a tax refund this year? Makes that tax bite seem not quite so bad, but have you really thought about how much money you paid in income tax? Do you know exactly how long you unofficially work for the government to pay your annual tax payments before you begin putting money in your own pocket? April 23, 2008 is the official Tax Freedom Day calculated by the Tax Foundation. Americans spend nearly one-third of the year working to pay their taxes. I guess how you think of taxes depends on which numbers you look at and how you crunch them into pertinent statistics. Statistics can fool you. We've listed resources to help you learn how to deal with the many statistics bandied about in the news to increase yours and your children's knowledge.

May Day Resources

Good Stories for Great Holidays: May Day

* The Canyon Flower
* The Snowdrop
* The Stream that Ran Away
* The Three Little Butterfly Brothers
* The Water-Drop

May Day Crafts

Mother's Day Resources

Good Stories for Great Holidays: Mother's Day
* Cornelia's Jewels
* The Lark and Its Young Ones
* The Revenge of Coriolanus

Springtime Gift Giving
It is spring, and the annual gift giving panic sets in. As the wedding season approaches, you realize that you will also need to consider graduation and teacher gifts. And let's not forget Mother's Day! These occasions combined with the usual birthdays, anniversaries, and baby showers, can be overwhelming financially. By gathering supplies and planning, you will be able to make beautiful gifts for all these occasions.

Mother's Day Crafts in A Year in Crafts: May Crafts
Several ideas perfect making gifts for mom or grandma.

Focus: Finishing the School Year

Racing to the Finish
What's a Mom to do when that finish line is approaching and she's getting tired of the struggle to coax, encourage, prod, and push her kids towards it?

Preparing a Transcript
Most colleges require a high school transcript from applicants. If you are like many eclectic homeschoolers, your child may have what seems like a crazy quilt education. How can you put all that he has into the structured format of a typical transcript?

To Organize or Not to Organize...Do I Really Have To? Colored Storage Bins and Other Tales for the Organizationally Challenged
Part of being better organized is the way you organize.

Lasting Memories
Can you see yourself in this picture? Your family just completed the unit study of your dreams. You're at the end, and you're thinking there must be more. What can you do with all of the fabulous projects, the stack of photos, and your memories of the fun?

Looking to the Future
My youngest son graduates in May.
These words, when I began homeschooling, were the farthest things from my mind. Teaching two boys to read seemed accomplishment enough; graduating them was a goal for the distant future. Now the future is here.

Resources

Homeschoolers' College Admissions Handbook: Preparing Your 12- to 18-Year-Old for a Smooth Transition
by Cafi Cohen
With more than 1.5 million children being homeschooled nationwide, the number of college applicants coming from a homeschooling environment continues to grow. In Homeschoolers' College Admissions Annual, 2001, you will find the essential information you need to help your child through this transition. From finding the right college, to organizing the correct college introductory work, to helping their child emotionally through this important change, Cafi Cohen offers invaluable information to the homeschooling parent readying his or her child for higher education, including record-keeping and organization of transcripts, details about the admissions process and financial aid, and special requirements colleges request of homeschoolers.

Creating Portfolios: A Teacher's Guide to Creating Portfolios
by Martin Kimeldorf
A portfolio is a powerful tool for learning, assessment, and self-discovery. In some school districts, portfolios are being mandated into the curriculum. This companion guide suggests ways to implement and evaluate portfolios at various grade levels and adapt them for students with special needs. Includes reproducibles.

The Organized Home Schooler
by Vicki Caruana
A veteran educator has compiled her most-requested homeschooling workshop material so that families can become more proficient in educating their kids. Covering issues like time management, space usage, and materials, Vicki Caruana addresses a variety of organizational needs to help families structure not only their work areas, but also their thinking, their paperwork--and each other! By the book's end, she inspires readers to re-evaluate, reorganize, and form new habits, leaving behind the stress and inefficiency of a cluttered life.

Crafts Department

A Year in Crafts: May
NEW: Bath Bombs, Flower Pen & Holder, A Sweet Bouquet for Mother's Day MORE: Key Chain For Mom, Activ-Clay Coil Pot, Learn to Knit, Easy Knit Headbands, Easy Stitch Knit Baby Blanket, Knit Purse, Stained Glass Book Marks, Vase with Cascading Flowers, Safari Animal Projects

Science Department

Science Spot
Better Understanding Hurricane Trajectories Learned from Patterns on Soap Bubbles
Soap bubbles are helping scientists get a better understanding of cyclones and hurricanes.

Eclectic Weblinks Index

If you haven't stopped by our weblinks index lately, we've added seven new links and will add more with each update. These non-commercial educational sites offer information on everything from ballet to dissecting a cow's eye.

New Reviews

* Can Do Roo: Anything Roo Can Do. You Can Do Too!
* The Complete Zoo Adventure: A Field Trip in a Book
* The Drawing Breakthrough Book: A Shortcut to Artistic Excellence
* Family Driven Faith
* The Imperfect Homeschoolers' Guide to Homeschooling
* Journey into the Unknown (DVD)
* Our Island Story, Volumes 3 and 4 (audiobook)
* Roll It Tic-Tac-Toe
* Still Standing: The Stonewall Jackson Story (DVD)
* This Country of Ours, Part 4: Stories of the Middle and Southern Colonies (audiobook)

EHO Resource Center

Featured Resource May

The Homeschooling Book of Lists
by Michael Leppert, Mary Leppert
$16.47 – 34% Off
The Homeschooling Book of Lists is a comprehensive, authoritative, and user-friendly resource for homeschoolers or anyone considering teaching their child at home. Written by Michael and Mary Leppert, two experts in the field of homeschooling, this easy-to-use book is filled with information, tips, and resources that will help you give your child an outstanding education.

The book covers a wide variety of topics—including what to consider before homeschooling, state-by-state guidelines for homeschoolers, curriculum resources by subject area, and getting your homeschooled student into college.

Available May 9. Pre-orders receive an additional 5% discount.

New Resources

Little Women by DVDBookshelf
$11.99 – 7% Off
Little Women, a literary classic based on the childhood experiences of author Louisa May Alcott, explores the joy and hardships of four sisters growing up during the Civil War. Through the experiences of each sister, tomboy and writer Jo, vain and beautiful Meg, frail Beth, and spoiled Amy, Alcott slips in little life lessons that are as important today as they were back when the novel was published in 1868. Little Women includes dramatized narration by award winning narrator Laural Merlington, with on screen displays of the text so your children, friends and family can read along, or simply listen. Over 150 Illustrations from Frank Thayer Merrill enhance the visual presentation.

Complete Unabridged Narration on DVD. Also contains entire novel as an MP3 Audiobook. Total Running Time = 18.5 Hours

Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (8th Edition)
by Neil Browne, Stuart Keeley
$37.60
This highly popular text helps students to bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches them to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject. While the structure of this new edition remains the same, for the sake of currency and relevance about two-thirds of the practice passages are new, as well as many of the longer illustrations and the final critical thinking case. Also, this eighth edition has been revised to emphasize the positive value of critical thinking as a means to autonomy, curiosity, reasonableness, openness, and better decisions.

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
by Francis D. K. Ching
$29.70 – 34% Off
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture is a remarkable, on-of-a-kind compendium which uses a combination of textual definitions and hundreds of superb line drawings to illuminate a comprehensive body of essential terms in architecture, including important interrelationships between building components. Grouped by themes, such as history, systems, structures, forms, construction, environmental issues, and behavior, all terms have their visual complement and can be readily accessed in a number of different ways. A Visual Dictionary of Architecture is an authoritative source of information for anyone tracking down an elusive word, and a delight for simple armchair browsing!

Haba Pyramid Set – block set
by Haba
$24.56 – 39% Off
Recreate one of the famous pyramids of Egypt – complete with meandering passageways and mysterious chambers. 49 wooden blocks in 20 shapes includes sphinx and palm tree pieces.

Stories From The Silk Road
by Cherry Gilchrist, Nilesh Mistry
$11.94 – 15% Off
The Spirit of the Silk Road is your guide as you journey through this book from Chang-an to Samarkand, following one of the arterial caravan routes of the silk traders. As you travel across treacherous deserts and through lonely mountain passes, you will learn about the importance of silk as a commodity, see some of the distinctive customs of the Central Asia people, and join in many storytelling sessions at starlit oases and campfires.

Building Big: Domes
David Macaulay
$17.99 – 10% Off
Where gods meet and players play–discover the domed wonders of the world. What holds up the Astrodome? Why did the Romans leave a hole in the roof of the Pantheon? Tour the world and trace the 2000-year history of domes with award-winning author-illustrator—and captivating storyteller—David Macaulay (The Way Things Work). From Houston's Astrodome to Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral, to the geodesic domes of Buckminster Fuller, Domes introduces ingenious designers, recounts rarely told heroic stories, and reveals amazing triumphs through spectacular film footage, fascinating facts, and dramatic recreations.

New Resource Sections

* DVDBookshelf

* Statistics

* Architecture and Art

* Architecture Videos

* Careers in Architecture

* Famous Architects

* General Architecture Books

* Hands-On Architecture Resources

* History of Architecture

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From a Cluttered Desk, which is on my personal website. My most recent blog posts over there have been about the Old Testament and how it's affecting me these days, self-publishing, the move we're making to Linux (Meaning AWAY from Micro...you know), and a new project I've begun work on.

Oh.... Yes, I need to tell you about the new project. I shall do so in the very next blog post.

But if you really want to keep up with Tammy Cardwell, you really should subscribe, or at least regularly read, my primary blog.

Celebrating Jesus!
Tammy C

What Does Make Finnish Kids so Smart?

Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:51:00 -0600

It's a question being asked in an article that originated in Helsinki, Finland. Here's a clip.

High-school students here rarely get more than a half-hour of homework a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is little standardized testing, few parents agonize over college and kids don't start school until age 7.

Yet by one international measure, Finnish teenagers are among the smartest in the world. They earned some of the top scores by 15-year-old students who were tested in 57 countries. American teens finished among the world's C students even as U.S. educators piled on more homework, standards and rules. Finnish youth, like their U.S. counterparts, also waste hours online. They dye their hair, love sarcasm and listen to rap and heavy metal. But by ninth grade they're way ahead in math, science and reading -- on track to keeping Finns among the world's most productive workers.

Check out the whole article. It makes for interesting reading.

Celebrating Jesus!
Tammy C
From a Cluttered Desk

Want to Help with a Wedding and Help Yourself in the Process?

Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:16:00 -0600

Penny Raine, a friend, fellow publisher, and one of my most faithful blog readers, is having an All-American-Bless-the-Bride-FireSale. This event will help their family raise the money they need for their daughter’s wedding. If you’ve ever been the mother of the bride, you know that the wedding is one expensive event!

Here’s a snippet from her site.

We don’t want to provide our daughter with just a small ceremony and cheese and crackers. We want a celebration! They are a Godly young couple who has put the Lord first, kept themselves pure and desire to honor Him in their wedding. April wants a traditional church wedding and how could any good parent deny her that? But churches around here don’t let you use their church for free. So we need to raise some funds to pay for April’s wedding of her dreams!

For homeschoolers, this is a no-brainer. She’s gathered together a great collection of resources that you will love. However, you should check this out even if you don’t homeschool. Maybe you won’t be interested in the biggest package, but she has smaller packages and some of them have things I would like to have - e-cookbooks, for instance, since I will (In Jesus’ name) soon have a kitchen in which I CAN cook. All of the products are electronic, so you can download your purchases pretty much right after you pay for them and start taking advantage of their benefits right away.

Penny also offers a chocolate e-cookbook that can be downloaded for FREE. Now that’s convinced you to check it out even if nothing else has, right?

So head on over to the site, choose your bargain of the day, and help us help this gal have the wedding of her dreams.

Celebrating Jesus!
Tammy C

http://tammycardwell.net/cluttered_desk

New Home Update

Mon, 3 Dec 2007 20:07:00 -0600

Ew.... I've not posted a single thing here since October? I really do wonder, on occasion, if I ought to just delete this blog. I'm not doing very many favors to those few who actually keep an eye on it.

For those of you who are trying to keep an eye on what's going on in my life - specifically the new home we're working on building with the money raised for us in the emergency fund raising sale that happened in August - I offer this link.

I Have Pictures!

This is the latest entry in the blog I maintain, with something resembling regularity, on my own website, TammyCardwell.net. In it, I share two pictures of the most recent progress as well as a brief report and some musings on what life will be like once we're living in our new home.

Be blessed!

Celebrating Jesus!
Tammy C

EHO Newsletter - October 15, 2007

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:27:00 -0500

Eclectic Homeschool Online Newsletter
October 15, 2007
http://eclectichomeschool.org
Please share this newsletter with others.

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Fall has definitely come to our house. The air has a crisp snap to it.
Our senses have been filled with the sound of oompah bands and smell
of sizzling brats, and the pumpkin patch has pumpkins to pick and a
corn maize to traverse. We spent last weekend on the beach cycling in
a four-seat surrey along the Virginia Beach boardwalk and enjoying the
Atlantic coast for the first time. We're also looking forward to
Thanksgiving here at EHO and have put links to our Thanksgiving
resources on the home page.

Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Unit Study
http://eclectichomeschool.org/articles/article.asp?articleid=11&resourceid=295
Thanksgiving Lesson Plans
Thanksgiving and Fall Crafts
Thanksgiving Websites
Thanksgiving Hymns
Thanksgiving Books and Stories
Thanksgiving Videos

The Giving at Thanksgiving
Blessings lead to blessings. It's an immutable rule of God's plan for
us. Holidays are meant to be shared and to remind us of God's
blessings. When do our actions become something more? The Spangenbergs
discover this at Thanksgiving.
http://eclectichomeschool.org/articles/article.asp?articleid=516&resourceid=295

Giving Thanks Daily
Tammy Cardwell shares why giving thanks should be an important daily
event in our lives and a terrific idea for making it just that.
http://eclectichomeschool.org/articles/article.asp?articleid=514&resourceid=295

Celebrations on a Shoestring: Fall Celebrations
Fall is here and so are many occasions to have friends and family
over. So, what are you waiting for? Maybe you feel overwhelmed by the
very idea. You may think that it will be too time consuming and costly
to decorate or make accessories. Being on a limited budget doesn't
have to rain on your parade or the special events in your life. By
using your imagination and items that you already own, you can create
a designer look that many pay handsomely for you.
http://eclectichomeschool.org/articles/article.asp?articleid=326&resourceid=295

Thanksgiving Stories
http://eclectichomeschool.org/departments/stories/story_holiday.asp?holiday=Than\
ksgiving
Saint Cuthbert's Eagle
The Horn of Plenty
The Master of the Harvest
The Pumpkin Pirates: A Tale from Lucian

Thanksgiving Play Space
Learn about Thanksgiving, play games and more...
http://eclectichomeschool.org/kids/thanksgiving.htm

Feature Articles
http://eclectichomeschool.org/articles/default.asp

Exploring the Future: I Want to Be a …?
Some children seem to enter this world knowing exactly what they want
to be when they grow up, while others still can't decide even when
they're fifty. Still others, sure about their futures, head straight
into a college degree in their chosen field only to realize later that
the uniform they've purchased doesn't fit. The reason most commonly
given for multiple major changes in college students, and career
changes in adults, is life experience. To be more accurate, I should
perhaps say that the problem is a lack of life experience before
making the "major" decision. This is something that is definitely in
our control as parents!
http://eclectichomeschool.org/articles/article.asp?articleid=556&resourceid=166

Enjoying Homeschooling: Tips on Teaching 1st-3rd Graders
If you and your child haven't enjoyed homeschooling lately then it's
time for a change! Homeschooling young children (1st-3rd grades) can
either be a joy or sheer drudgery--it all depends upon your method and
attitude.
http://eclectichomeschool.org/articles/article.asp?articleid=557&resourceid=66

Focus: Career Exploration

Career Assessment
What do you want to be when you grow up? That's a standard question
grownups ask small children. Sometime in a child's high school years
that question becomes a little more insistent. For some teens, making
decisions of such magnitude is daunting. It's important to remind them
that nothing is set in stone as they begin to pursue possibilities. On
the other hand, they also need to be reminded that their decisions may
curtail or delay their choices in the future. If you forego algebra
today, you may need to do some remediation if you later choose to
follow a career path requiring algebra.
http://eclectichomeschool.org/articles/article.asp?articleid=287&resourceid=166

Master's Commission
Accountability, hands-on training, life changing experience, academic
credentials—all are integral parts of a unique one year learning
experience called Master's Commission.
http://eclectichomeschool.org/articles/article.asp?articleid=222&resourceid=166

From our Eclectic Weblinks Index
http://eclectichomeschool.org/resources/eclweb/default.asp

Career Exploration
Description: Explore vocational and technical careers with the
following links. Each career path page on the Vocational Information
Center Website includes links to various career descriptions as well
as links to educational sites relating to the specific career; such
as; tutorials, directories, associations, industry news, glossaries
and related academics.
http://www.khake.com/page2.html

Career One Step - Videos
Description: Short videos that show and tell about specific jobs.
You'll also want to explore the other career resources on this site.
http://www.acinet.org/acinet/videos_by_cluster.asp?show=y

What do you like?
Description: Career information for kids from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
http://www.bls.gov/k12/

More Career Exploration Weblinks
http://eclectichomeschool.org/resources/eclweb/dirSub.asp?catid=16&subid=138

Career Exploration Reviews
http://eclectichomeschool.org/reviews/reviewcat.asp?catid=67
Career Exploration Resources
http://eclectichomeschool.org/store/category.asp?catid=20
College and Career Department
http://eclectichomeschool.org/departments/department_manager.asp?deptid=15

Science Department
http://eclectichomeschool.org/department/department_manager.asp?deptid=7

Science Spot
Weaving with Light
By weaving tiny crystals into fabrics, a new technology is lighting up
the night for people who lack electricity.
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20071017/Feature1.asp

New Reviews
http://eclectichomeschool.org/reviews/newreviews.asp

* Anne of Green Gables (audiobook)
* Artist of the Reformation: The Story of Albrecht Dürer
* I Could Sing of Your Love Forever: Stories, Reflections, and Devotions
* Lad: A Dog (audiobook)
* The Learner's Journal
* Let's Sticker and Paste!
* Letter Sounds: Learn to read with phonics for beginners! (DVD)
* P is for Pilgrim: A Thanksgiving Alphabet
* A Pioneer Thanksgiving: A Story of Harvest Celebrations in 1841
* The River of Grace: A Story of John Calvin
* The Story of Napoleon (Unabridged Audiobook)
* Upgrade: 10 Secrets to the Best Education for Your Child
* Wisdom Kids Thanks and Giving (ebook)
* Wisdom Kids The ABC's of Being Thankful (ebook)

EHO Resource Center
http://eclectichomeschool.org/store/

Featured Resource October

The Book of General Ignorance
by John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
$13.57 – 32% Off
Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball
was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, Mount Everest is
the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again.
Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the
heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation
based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of
us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature,
science, nature, and more.
The Book of General Ignorance is a witty "gotcha" compendium of how
little we actually know about anything. It'll have you scratching your
head wondering why we even bother to go to school.
Revealing the truth behind all the things we think we know but
don't, this book leaves you dumbfounded about all the misinformation
you've managed to collect during your life, and sets you up to win big
should you ever be a contestant on Jeopardy! or Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire.
Besides righting the record on common (but wrong) myths like
Captain Cook discovering Australia or Alexander Graham Bell inventing
the telephone, The Book of General Ignorance also gives us the skinny
on silly slipups to trot out at dinner parties (Cinderella wore fur,
not glass, slippers and chicken tikka masala was invented in Scotland,
not India).
Thomas Edison said that we know less than one millionth of one
percent about anything: this book makes us wonder if we know even that
much.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307394913/eclectichomescho/

New Resources
http://eclectichomeschool.org/store/newbooks.asp

Homeschoolers Book of Lists: More than 250 Lists, Charts, and Facts to
Make Planning Easier and Faster
by Sonya Haskins
$13.59 – 32% Off
With more than 250 lists organized by subject, home educators, private
school teachers, and other instructors will find important facts and
essential information in one easy-to-use resource. The book and CD
cover material for elementary-age grade levels in eight academic areas
including science, geography, history, the Bible, and more. The book
is designed to supplement and enrich the student's basic curriculum
with challenging memory work and facts about great people, important
dates, famous speeches, and much more. In addition, two chapters are
dedicated to curriculum information, homeschool methodology and
organization, checklists, and key Web sites for the parent-teacher.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764204432/eclectichomescho/

The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling
by Rachel Gathercole
$10.17 - 32% Off
Socialization may well be the single most important aspect of
education today. With high and rising rates of divorce, drug abuse,
youth violence, alcoholism, teen promiscuity, and so forth, we cannot
afford to let this issue go unexamined.
To cling to the idea that what we, as a culture, are doing now is
the right and best way for all children simply because it is what we
are used to is to shut our eyes and minds to other
possibilities--possibilities that may well afford greater happiness,
success, peace, and safety to our own children.
At a time when people feel more disconnected than ever before, we
cannot afford to overlook or allow ourselves to be blinded to an
option which offers great benefits, including a rich, fulfilling, and
healthy social life, that our children may well need for the future.
Homeschooling offers great social benefits to kids and parents. And
when we understand them, our children are the ones who will win.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1600651070/eclectichomescho/

You've Decided to Homeschool, Now What?
by Marsha Hubler
$8.79 – 20% Off
A practical, welcome aid for overcoming initial anxiety over
homeschool for your children, this detailed-but-readable look at
getting started (and maintaining) with a workable plan is written by
well-known homeschool consultant Marsha Hubler. With invaluable
checklists for getting started, sample yearly calendars, and detailed
items "survival guide" makes it easy and lays the groundwork for a
winning experience. This helpful book enables overwhelmed parents to
see the big picture by helping tailor a curriculum for each child's
specific needs and gives practical advice for working with homeschool
evaluators, taking standardized tests, and injecting discipline
necessary for academic success.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0890515123/eclectichomescho/

More New Homeschooling Books
http://eclectichomeschool.org/store/subcategory.asp?subcatid=69&catid=1

The Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower - DVD
Starring: Erin Raftery, Sam Redford
$19.99 - 20% Off
From their self-imposed exile in Holland and perilous Atlantic
crossing in the Mayflower to unimaginable hardships encountered in
their new land, this is the definitive story of the Pilgrims and how
they came to live--and ultimately prosper--in the harsh climate of an
unfamiliar world.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000JU7JE6/eclectichomescho/

Give Thanks to the Lord
by Karma Wilson, Amy June Bates-Illustrator
$10.19 – 32% Off
In this heartwarming story that references Psalm 92, award-winning
children's author Karma Wilson tells a story about the Thanksgiving
holiday that hits just the right tone. Told from the point of view of
one young member of an extended family, Give Thanks to the Lord
celebrates all the joys of the autumn holiday, from the arrival of
distant relatives to a cozy house filled with noisy good cheer to
apple cider and the delicious smells of roasting turkey and baking
pies. And just when mouths are watering, the family sits down, holds
hands, and says a prayer of thanks to God for "food and fun and
family, all the wonderful things we see." Young readers will delight
in each tender rhyme as they learn to appreciate their own many
blessings in this full-color picture book for kids.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0310711185/eclectichomescho/

More Thanksgiving resources including cookbooks, videos, books, music,
and kitchen equipment.
http://eclectichomeschool.org/store/subcategory.asp?subcatid=295&catid=41

Kingdoms 1: The Coming Storm: a Biblical Epic
by Ben Avery, Mat Broome-Illustrator
$9.99
When the Egyptian Pharaoh Neco kills Judah's king Josiah, it sets off
a clash as to who will become the new king of Judah. When the
unrighteous Jehoahaz is selected as the new king, Josiah's head
advisor grieves for the path to exile that they have unwittingly begun
to walk in this first volume of the manga-style series written by Ben
Avery and illustrated by Matt Broome.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0310713536/eclectichomescho/

More Christian Graphic Novels
http://eclectichomeschool.org/store/subcategory.asp?subcatid=460&catid=16

Thank you for buying your homeschool resources, curriculum, and other
purchases from Amazon.com through the Eclectic Homeschool Online
Resource Center. The earnings we receive from the sales in our store
go directly to paying the bills for hosting and web services we use.
We currently have a number of improvements we'd like to make to the
website, but these are still on our wish list for lack of funding. By
entering Amazon through our store, you make sure that all your
purchases, even those not specifically listed in our store, are
credited to our account. So the next time you plan to buy something
big, even though it's not homeschool related, enter through our store
using our search box or any of our store links, and you'll be blessing
us and the homeschool community. What could be better? Shopping as a
good deed.

Look for our Shop Amazon - Fund EHO Link posted throughout the EHO
website or visit the EHO Resource Center main page at
http://eclectichomeschool.org/store/

Eclectic Homeschool Resource Directory
http://eclectichomeschool.org/directory/default.asp

We've added four new listings to the EHO Resource Directory including
Catholic Christian Gifts, Books & Church Supplies from St. Patrick's
Guild. The Directory is a great place to find small companies that
focus on the many aspects of homeschooling. If you're looking for
something new or a little different, try browsing our Directory. We
currently have 560 listings in 87 categories.

If you're interested in listing your business in the directory, please
visit the following page to submit a commercial or non-commercial
website. http://eclectichomeschool.org/info/submit_listing.asp

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Volunteers as a free eBook and has just published A Homeschool that
Handles the Hard Times: A Guide for Christian Homeschoolers as an
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Eclectic Homeschool Online
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Have you heard of ClickSchooling?

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:46:00 -0500

The following was just forwarded to one of my lists. It sounds like this could be a homeschool gold mine.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject ClickSchooling Archives Now Available!
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:14:21 -0000
From: homefireseditor <diane@universalpreschool.com>

Would you like to have access to past ClickSchooling reviews?

Do you want to locate terrific, educational websites that will help
your children and students learn:

*Math
*Science
*Language Arts (Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar)
*History
*Social Studies
*Geography
*Art
*Music
*Foreign Languages
- and more?

Now you can! Access the ClickSchooling Archives for free here:

ClickSchooling Archives
http://www.homefires.com/clickschool/archive.asp

We have been updating and posting the sites that have been featured
on ClickSchooling over the past 8 years. There are 699 educational
websites archived already, with more on the way! You can search by
subject or topic and age range :)

You are welcome to link to the ClickSchooling Archives from your
websites and blogs. (If you do, please let us know.) Feel free to
forward this announcement to your support groups and friends.

Enjoy! :)

Diane Flynn Keith
for ClickSchooling
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Note: We make every effort to recommend websites that have content that is appropriate for general audiences. Parents should ALWAYS preview the sites for suitable content.

Click Schooling (Clickschooling) is a Federally Registered Trademark.

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