See also Ariel Ministries founder Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum’s itinerary and visit to Palmerston North and New Zealand here.

CHECK OUT SOME BEAUTIFUL FREE TEACHING AND STUDY RESOURCES HERE.

And if you loooove eBooks, you should check out ePukapuka. Unfortunately you may have to avoid their many sleazy family-unfriendly book covers as you browse.

A teacher’s guide is also available.

You can buy it from here (USA) or here (and Teacher’s Guide) in New Zealand.

In addition, there is a FREE MP3 series that runs along with the workbook, so there is minimal input required from the parent.

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1201oihbafvpihboijhpihbasdouhbasv/event/index.html

What does this event mean for home schoolers? I suspect it means a lot, but we may not see the results in our midst for a year or two. In a nutshell:

1. Textbook authors can now easily make their own beautiful digital textbooks for the iPad and sell them on the iTunes store. These textbooks are at most $14.99 USD and can be full multimedia.
2. Schools can now follow the iTunes U (University) model and put full courses including notes, lectures, video lectures, and assignments online for free.

This surely opens the doors for full homeschool curricula to be defined and offered worldwide to any iPad user with minimal input required from the parent-teacher.

What do you think? Amazing? Exciting? Would you use a curriculum (e.g. SonLight or Apologia Science) if it was available on the iPad?

When our first child was ready for school, we put her into a public school. We had reasons. We wanted her to be in the world, learn how the world works and be prepared. We wanted our family to be “light” in the world (for want of a clearer way of putting it) by teaching our children about the Lord and living that testimony with them before others.

But things came unstuck for us as we asked the children what they learned about at school. The answers often concerned us. Some of what the school taught as fact was not fact – it was philosophical or just plain opinion, and whatever it was, it was not in accordance with how the Bible says we should be raising our children.

We now have this DVD and you are welcome to borrow it. Highly recommended.

Friday 25th November 2011.

Payment will be made Monday 12 December 2011.

“Unless you confirm your bank details, the Home-schooling Allowance will not be paid.”

An incomplete form will result in a delayed payment.

Activities planning meeting for term 4.

Time: 7.30pm

Location: 342 Tremaine Ave, Palmerston North.