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What's New at the Eclectic Homeschool Online: Friday, July 30, 2010

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Homeschooling in Perpetual Motion: That's My Boy!Homeschooling in Perpetual Motion: That's My Boy!
My seven year old son is perpetual motion and does math problems while hanging upside down or thumping his leg against the furniture. He's relatively still when he reads to himself and to me now, but when he first learned to read, he would bounce around so much he would sometimes lose his place. If that describes your son, youll find some terrific ideas in this article for dealing with boys in perpetual motion.

Focus - Homeschooling Boys

What do I do with This Boy?
Laurie Bluedorn of Trivium Pursuit shares her answers to some of the commonly asked questions about boys and the difficulties they sometimes present.

Gross Things Unit Study
I knew this book would be a hit with my youngest son, but I didn’t realize how big a hit. I showed it to Ian one day, but didn’t get too much of a response. A little while later he and his friend were sitting on the couch chortling with glee over the pages. What book would happily engross two young boys? Engross is the key word—Gross Anatomy: An Off-Color Coloring Book.

Homeschool Success Story
People were telling us that we were going to ruin our son's life if we didn't let him go to public high school to play baseball. We told them that if God wanted Clay to play college or professional baseball that He could certainly make a way."

Encouraging Reluctant Readers
Reluctant readers are children who can read, sometimes below "grade" level, but who nonetheless choose not to read. In this day of "the cult of celebrity," competing television shows, movies, and video games wildly proliferate. As a result, many children are not recognizing the joys of reading and instead see only what they perceive as the boredom of reading. Perhaps you've heard a variation of "I can just watch the movie instead of reading the book"? And, if you love reading, a statement like that can make you cringe.

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Create a Guide to Your Hometown Turn a three-ring binder into a handy reference to all the best things about your area.

Mushroom Prints Mushrooms may be great on pizza and burgers, but place a few on a piece of paper, and they're in-spore-ational!

Sand Casts Sand casts are easy and fun to make. You can start a wonderful tradition with your children. If you visit a beach every few years for summer vacation, try making sand casts of their hands and feet each year.

Ladybugs You Can Eat These strawberry ladybugs are a sweet summer treat. They're easy to make—and tasty, too!

Symmetrical Name Creatures Create a creature out of your own name.

Making Friends Paper Dolls Printables for making your own "Friends" paper dolls including paper doll bodies, hair, themes like multicultural friends and Bible friends, and projects to make for your friends paper dolls.

Coffee Filter Flowers Make a beautiful flower bouquet. These flowers are quick, easy, inexpensive and fun for all ages. Use your imagination to come up with your own varieties!

Make a Planet from our Solar System Make your own model solar system with styrofoam balls and a CD for Saturn.

Mud Bricks, Mud Pies, Mud Handprints Ever considered actually planning on your kids playing in the mud?

Trailing dust devils Science Spot
Trailing dust devils
The ephemeral dark trails left in desert sand by dust devils are produced when the whirlwinds blow tiny particles of lighter-colored silt and dust off larger sand grains, a new study shows. Even removing a layer of dust and silt only a few micrometers thick can produce a dark trail visible with satellites, recent field studies suggest.
My Last Homeschool GraduateMy Last Homeschool Graduate
Perhaps its the fact this is number five and last for me. Perhaps its the baby birds just outside my desk window soon ready to flutter from the nest. The fast approach of my youngest daughters last year of homeschool is affecting me differently from the rest.

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For those interested in finding terrific books for summer reading for their children, stop by our homeschool resource center summer reading page. You don’t have to purchase from our store. The library will have most of these titles. But if you’re serious about stocking a library of good children’s books, it’s a great place to start.

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Students Found to Pick Up Science Outside School
Informal science activities, such as trips to museums and zoos, viewing of television shows, and even discussions between parents and children, have the power to improve students’ learning in that subject and their appreciation for it, a national study released today concludes. (Who'd have thought?)
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