Methods
While most people have a dominant learning style, most of us are a combination. This collection of resources explains several different learning styles, and offers links to assessments, curriculum choices, materials, and tools that will help you identify your child's learning style and then incorporate that knowledge into your homeschool day and planning. Learn the strategies to fully integrate understanding of learning styles into your homeschooling with these resources.
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Unschooling in the Midwest
Starting a Homeschool Cooperative
Will County Unschoolers
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
Homeschooling: The Early Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- to 8- Year-Old Child
Funschooling Unit Study Archives
Chicago Homeschool Co-Op
Off The Beaten Path
Michael Olaf Montessori Company
Unschooling in IL
Pocketful of Pinecones: Nature Study With the Gentle Art of Learning : A Story for Mother Culture
Unschooling Basics
Griggs International Academy
Illiana Homeschool Cooperative
Northside Unschoolers of Chicago
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Secret of Childhood
Homeschooling: The Early Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3- to 8- Year-Old Child
Montessori Play And Learn : A Parent's Guide to Purposeful Play from Two to Six
Now, Lesley Britton, the leading Montessori practitioner in England for more than twenty years, will show parents how to bring Montessori home. If you would like to facilitate the development of your child's unique personality, make it possible for him to develop to his full intellectual capacity, and help him become socially and emotionally well adjusted, then this is the book for you.
Montessori Play and Learn is packed with ideas, activities, and games that can fit into your normal routine and help supplement preschool learning for your child. For planning your home, introducing your child to the supermarket or the neighborhood, and helping him discover other people and cultures, this book provides valuable tips and insights that help parents and children grow and learn together.
-- Create hundreds of learning opportunities from everyday life
-- Learn dozens of games and activities to help prepare children for mathematics, reading, science, and writing
-- Make your home environment as stimulating for your child as the best Montessori preschool.
Montessori International
Homeschooling Essentials: A Practical Guide to Getting Started
If you're ready to begin homeschooling, then the experiences of others can offer valuable help and encouragement as you jump into this new adventure. This practical guide answers common questions, helps you navigate the legalities of homeschooling, talks about the practical side of homeschooling and different methods, offers resources and gives advice about high school.
Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School
Freedom and Beyond (Innovators in Education)
Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work
The new introduction to Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work by Lee Havis, executive director of the International Montessori Society, discusses the changes that have taken place in Montessori education within recent years.
An updated appendix of Montessori periodicals, courses, societies, films, and teaching materials.
A revised bibliography of books by and about Maria Montessori.
The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12
As a homeschooling parent, you're always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. Look no longer! Inside this innovative helper, you'll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can easily adapt to your family's homeschooling needs. And even if you don't homeschool, you'll find this book a great teaching tool outside the classroom. You'll discover fun and educational activities for kids ages 3 to 12, including how to:
·Create maps based on favorite stories, such as Treasure Island or The Wizard of Oz
·Make letters out of French fries as an alphabet learning aid
·Explore architecture by building igloos, castles, and bridges with sugar cubes and icing
·Review spelling words by writing them on the sidewalk with chalk
·And many more!
This comprehensive collection of tried-and-true—and generally inexpensive—ideas provides the best-of-the-best homeschooling activities that can be done anywhere, anytime, and by anyone.
Kinder Dolls: A Waldorf Doll-Making Handbook
Included are:
· Ten designs, including soft, baggy, angel, pouch, sack, and limbed dolls
· Twelve basic clothes patterns and ethnic variations
· Tools, techniques, and materials
· Safety guidelines and sewing methods
· Recycling tips and where to get materials
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
Children at Play : Using Waldorf Principles to Foster Childhood Development
Tomorrows Child
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
The Absorbent Mind
A new foreword by John Chattin-McNichols, Ph.D., President of the American Montessori Society, places this classic book in a contemporary context, offering an intelligent discussion of current thinking in child education.
Discovery of the Child
Teach Me to Do It Myself: Montessori Activities for You and Your Child
Free to Learn: Introducing Steiner Waldorf Earkt Childhood Education
Topics include:
· How kindergarten enables healthy child development
· What is movement based learning
· Why creative play is so crucial
· How children learn through imitation and rhythm
· When children are ready for school
· How to get support for parenting and daycare
Free to Learn is a unique guide to the principles and methods of Waldorf early education, drawing on kindergarten experience from around the world, with stories, helpful insights, lively observations, and pictures.
Montessori Method
Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook
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