"For parents who are concerned about the quality, safety, and care offered in traditional school systems, trusted homeschool expert Durenda Wilson equips you with the resources you need to give your child a great education and a healthy, successful future--and in less time than you think--in The Four-Hour School Day"--

When Ben Hewitt and his wife bought a sprawling acreage of field and forest in northern Vermont, the landscape easily allowed them to envision the self-sustaining family farm they were eager to start. But over the years, the land became so much more than a building site; it became the birthplace of their two sons, the main source of family income and food, and ultimately, both classroom and home for their children. Having opted out of formal...

El libro es una crítica de la enseñanza actual, de la metodología utilizada y de la relación del profesorado con el alumnado, a través de sucesos ocurridos en el aula. Se propone una metodología para enseñar de acuerdo con la tecnología y las posibilidades de nuestro siglo a través de unidades didácticas. En las unidades didácticas priman la creatividad, la autoestima del alumnado y el desarrollo de capacidades. Están basadas en un centro...

In Teaching Kids to Write Well: Six Secrets Every Grown-Up Should Know, author, parent and educator Laurisa White Reyes reveals key strategies for cultivating a love of writing in children. Too many of today's children are "turned off" to writing because of criticism, poor grades, or being assigned topics that are of little interest to them. While all children should eventually be taught the rules of grammar and proper structure, they must first discover...

Bia Willcox's Aunt Wanda's Memories of the Amazon Rainforest takes us on a wonderful journey through the Amazon River, exploring the natural wonders of the rainforest, its fauna, and flora. Children will extend their English vocabulary by reading about typical Amazon animal species and native tribes' customs. All the while learning the importance of maintaining the Amazonian eco-system for future generations. According to Aunt Wanda, the future of...

The W Street Family Travels to Africa introduces us to the family's adventure on a new continent - Africa. Aunt Wanda prepares the kids for a great adventure: a real safari. And the most amazing thing: Wowlet, who could not fly with them, is trained by Aunt Wanda to fly safely to Africa, across the Atlantic, and meet them at their hotel. What the family didn't expect is that, besides the Safari adventure where they meet various animals from the Savannah,...

This book is for those parents interested in homeschooling and those who wish to be more effective in their communication with their children's teachers and administrators. It is the author's intent to provide a guide for gaining adequate general knowledge of homeschooling to those parents so that they are armed with the information necessary for them to confidently decide whether to homeschool or not. If they choose to school their children at home,...

Should we stay or should we go? Millions of parents with children in public schools can't believe they're asking this question. But they are. And you should be asking it too. Almost overnight, America's public schools have become morally toxic. And they are especially poisonous for the hearts and minds of children from religious families of every faith-ordinary families who value traditional morality and plain old common sense. Parents' first duty...

Actualmente, hay muchas familias en todo el mundo que educan fuera de la escuela y desde siempre ha habido quienes se resistieron a ella, ejerciendo su capacidad de aprender de distintas maneras. Por esta razón, para hacer este libro buscamos historias reales que muestran que es posible y gozoso, aunque no por eso sencillo, aprender en libertad. Decidir que lxs hijxs no vayan a la escuela o ser docente y elegir salir de la escuela no son decisiones...

Traditional schooling systems are proving to be suboptimal learning environments for many students of color. Black parents bear witness to the myriad of problems their children face at school and are becoming increasingly frustrated with the inability to implement positive and constructive change. Many understand the immense value an education provides and understand its empowering effects in the lives of their children. However, as traditional systems...