Taken from http://www.circleofmoms.com/top25/homeschooling-blogs
1. 1+1+1=1 – http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net
2. Confessions of a Home Schooler – http://confessionsofahomeschooler.com/
3. Itsy Bitsy Learners – http://www.itsybitsylearners.com
4. Homeschool Creations – http://www.homeschoolcreations.net
5. Rockabye Butterfly – http://rockabyebutterfly.blogspot.com/
On August 17, 2013, Miss Florida’s Outstanding Teen, Leah Sykes, a home schooled student from Jacksonville, FL, was crowned Miss America’s Outstanding Teen 2014, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando.
Miss America’s Outstanding Teen is the “little sister” organization of the Miss America Scholarship Organization.
For the talent portion of the competition, Leah performed a vocal to “Someone Like You” by Adele.
Along with the title of Miss America’s Outstanding Teen 2014, Leah won a $25,000 scholarship subsidized by the Rosen Centre Hotel to continue her education.
Now Leah will travel the country speaking to audiences about her platform, “Seeing Beyond Disabilities”, and acting as the teen ambassador for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, a non-profit organization dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children by raising funds for children’s hospitals. Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals is the national platform of the Miss America’s Outstanding Teen Organization.
Fore more information, visit www.MAOTeen.org.
Written by Shari Popejoy
Home Educating Family Magazine/2013 Issue 2
www.hedua.com
Dr. Jay Wile, author of the Exploring Creation series and Science in the Beginning, presented a workshop at our local homeschool convention: “Homeschooling – The Environment for Genius,” where he endorsed allowing children to play with electronics. At least that’s what I heard! Evidently, one aspect that people of genius had in common from their childhoods was hours of uninterrupted playtime, and Dr. Wile agreed that electronics might provide value to children.
So, in an effort to foster genius tendencies in my son, I actually schedule an hour of Snap Circuits some days. Like education wrapped up in a toy, interchangeable components combine, creating circuits to build radios, fans, lights, and alarms. I log all that creative playtime as science (magnetism and electricity), math (patterns and sequences), or reference skills (interpreting circuit diagrams).
Some creative ways to utilize electronics during the school day that even a truancy officer would admire: (more…)