Entries from April 2006

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Compelling Interest

In a Free-Lance Star article about homeschooling, Chris Haynes, a senior scholar with the First Amendment Center, is quoted as saying:
“Under the First Amendment, the freedoms of exercise are limited when it comes to society’s compelling interest in protecting the safety and health of its children. With all due respect to religious freedom–which is something […]

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

World of Color

VAN GOGH’S WORLD OF COLOR
[ by Julie Aigner-Clark ]
Originally intended for parents to read aloud to young children, it makes for a good beginning reader that specifically exercises reading comprehension through the many questions on each page. It can also help kids recognize specific elements with a work of art (very basic introduction to art […]

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

Inclucating Children

In a homeschooling article printed in the Free-Lance Star, former Delegate Jim Dillard (R-Virginia) was recently quoted as saying:
“It [public education] goes back to the idea of an enlightened electorate,” he said. “In order to have society function as a democracy, the state needs to be able to inculcate certain values in its children, […]

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Hey! Wake Up!

HEY! WAKE UP!
[ by Sandra Boynton ]
With the typically cute characters and whimsical wording of Sandra Boynton, this book is fun to read for both kids and grown-ups. The many animals (a lion, elephant, and bunny among others) wake up, stretch, have breakfast and a morning play. Uses playful rhyming phrases. -20 pgs-
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006

Penguins

PENGUINS
[ by Kathleen Zoehfeld ]
This non-fiction book about Penguins contains lots of information! Read about where penguins live, what they eat, how they raise chicks, and how they move around on land and in the sea. A Scholastic Science Reader. Very nice full color photographs. -29 pgs-
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