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Previous Newsletters: Cost per Edition $2.00 (by print or email)
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2002

October/November 2002

• Homeschooling Teenagers
• A Learning Naturally Curriculum for my Adolescent Son

2003

Issue 1-February/March 2003

• Science words
• Spelling bee
• A Teenage Homeschooler Speaks…Joel Ratcliffe
• Homeschooling on a Budget by Mimi Dempsey

Issue 2 - April/May 2003

• More Science by Fiona Shigrov
• Homeschool Journey Lynne
• Scrapbooking in the Homeschool By Brenda Murray
• National Home Education Week is 18th - 24th May 2003 (2nd last week in May).

Issue 3 - June/July 2003

• More Science - Making a Plastic Toy
• On learning to write By Alison Horridge
• Nurtured by Love…At Home By Orma
• Families turn a home into a classroom by Rebecca Price

Issue 4 - August/September 2003

• Burnout by Rebecca Williams
• Keeping Routines by Belinda Moore
• NATURE DRAWING by Leonie Westenberg – re-printed and adapted from Stepping Stones magazine, 2002

Issue 5 - October/November 2003

• Book Review by Anna Hackett
• Seven Pillars of Joyful Homeschooling by Cindy Kelly
• The Hidden Curriculum by Sarah (Irene) Knight

2004

Issue 2 - April/May 2004

• Real Life Maths by Debra

Issue 3 - June/July 2004

• What do you want to be when you grow up? - Emma Whiteley (N.S.W..)
• Ryan’s Rainy Day Fun
• Christopher’s Cold Weather Play Days
• Anneliese’s Any Day Play

2005

Issue 1 – Feb / Mar 2005

• Classical Education
• Reflections on the Whole Elephant
• The Blind Men and the Elephant
• The Cultivation of Wisdom and Virtue
• Western Civilization
• Our Journey Towards a Classical Education
• Starting Out
• Discovering Classical Education
• Just what is Classical Education?
• The Learning Continues
• Why use Picture Books with Older Children
• Fun Section
• Mad Libs – Fun with Grammar
• I went for a walk

ISSUE 2 – APR / MAY 2005

• Charlotte Mason in a Nutshell By Deborah Taylor-Hough
• Twaddle
• Living Books
• Whole Books
• Narration
• Short Lessons
• Nature Walks
• Daily Walks
• Nature Notebooks
• Art Appreciation
• Journaling
• Copywork
• Dictation
• Book of the Centuries
• Free-Time Handicrafts
• Habits
• Personal Reflections on a Charlotte Mason Approach by Beverley Paine
• Upon a Basis of Natural Learning – Charlotte Mason’s Pilosophy of Education edited by Anna Hackett
• Fun Section
• How smart Is your Foot
• Home Education Wordfind

ISSUE 3 – JUNE / JULY 2005

• So what is Natural Learning?
• Home and Heart and Mind

ISSUE 4 – AUGUST/ SEPTEMBER 2005

• The Electric Homeschool by Linda Maher
• Here’s my thoughts about an Eclectic Homeschool:
• Disadvantages
• Points to Remember When Home Educating:

ISSUE 5 – OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2005

• Unit Studies verses Textbooks by Jillian Darling

ISSUE 6 – DECEMBER 2005 – JANUARY 2006

• Advent
• Background to Advent:
• Advent Wreath:
• Symbol of the Circle
• Greenery
• Candles
• Colours of the Candles
• Blessing of the Wreath
• Reflection
• Advent Prayer
• Candle Prayer
• Christmas Day
• Make your own Advent Wreath

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