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Use this website with Beverley Paine's Getting Started with Home Schooling - Practical Considerations to help you develop your own educational curriculum to suit your family situation, beliefs and lifestyle. The checklists can help you identify your children's current educational skill level in each subject area, as well as find any 'gaps' in their learning, plan what they need to cover or keep track of what has been learned. As you can appreciate this website is continuously under development... It's our aim to add pages on a regular basis in all curriculum areas: check back frequently. We hope you enjoy the articles and activities and find the links and recommended resources useful. Over the next year we will be working our way through each subject area and writing fresh, new content. |
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Everything New is Old Again
© Beverley Paine, 2004
I wish I'd kept my favourite books from childhood. I had many treasures: the tiny book of nursery rhymes I taught myself to read with, an ancient cloth hardback with gold-edged pages and fascinating colour plates as old as my grandmother; cheap books from Coles with breathtaking adventures. These are books I would have shared with my children and read again with great pleasure. There's something about an old, much loved book.
Way back in 1972, Carol Chomsky found a correlation between children's linguistic stages and the number of books mothers recalled with pleasure from their own childhood and shared with their children. Even if you only remember two or three books it's worth sharing them with your child. Don't force these books onto your children though. April, my eldest, steadfastly refused to be interested in the authors I enthused about, but if I allowed her to find and explore them on her own, by making sure these treasures were available in the home, she devoured them at a great rate.
I did keep a couple of books though, and surprisingly for a child that read every novel or story book in sight, these two books were large illustrated history books. Although the text and illustrations were dated, my children found them fascinating and a great starting point for their own historical explorations. They also gave rise to insightful conversations about the cultural bias deeply embedded in historical accounts. As a result we've all become critical readers of both historical and current affairs.
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